rtay
Port Saint Lucie, FL
65, joined Aug. 2010
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This is the third time in doing this study,just wanted to share,thanks
In the world there is naturally going to be contempt for the gospel, contempt for the truth. Jesus said in verse 43, “You cannot hear My Word,” meaning you cannot comprehend it, you cannot understand it, you cannot affirm it, you cannot believe it. You don’t have capacity for that, same as Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “The natural man understands not the things of God, they are foolishness to Him because they are spiritually appraised, spiritually discerned, and the natural man is spiritually dead.”
We realize that the world resents it and hates it and thinks its narrow. That doesn’t change the fact that it is the truth....it is the truth. And again I say, the church is only advanced genuinely, the true church, when it has been uncompromisingly committed to the truth. I know post-modernism says there is not truth, moral relativism says there is no authority, personal freedom says there are no rules, humanistic atheism says there is no judge, but the Bible disagrees with all of that. There is truth, that truth has authority, that truth is articulated in the Law of God, and God Himself is the judge.
We start then with the reality that the source of truth is objective. Luther called it “the external Word.” This is critically important if you are to have a true Christian world view. You must understand that the truth of God is completely outside of us. It’s outside of all of us. It’s outside of each us individually, and it’s outside all of us collectively. It is fixed.In fact, it is unassailable and it is eternal. You can’t change it. You can accept it or you can reject it. You cannot alter it. It is unalterable.The message of Scripture is clear and unambiguous and it is not existential. You don’t create it by your own ideas and your own intuition. None of it comes by the will of man. Second Peter 1, “Scripture comes not by the will of man but men were moved by the Holy Spirit to write it down.” he truth of Scripture is not decided by your insight or mine, or your experience or mine. What it does for us or in us or to us or how it affects us has nothing to do with its actual meaning. Frankly, just saying that you would deal a blow to about 80 percent of what parades itself as evangelical Christianity.
And, of course, the meaning of the Scripture, and I tell preachers this all the time, the meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. Scripture meaning the writings from God, the meaning is the Scripture. If you don’t have the meaning, you don’t have the Scripture. If you don’t know what it means, you haven’t heard God. The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. And the worst thing you can do is take it and abuse it and make it mean what you’ve already predetermined you want it to mean to fit your scheme. The truth is in the meaning. The truth is in the interpretation of the words themselves. And this is an exercise in reason. You use your mind and your faculties.The truth which itself is authority is incompatible with error. The truth is absolutely incompatible with error. It makes no sense to say we need to hear the opinions of the other religions. We need to take what’s good from Hinduism and Islam and blend it together with ChristianityTitus 1:16, “There are those who profess to know God but in works they deny Him.” Wow. Those who profess to know God but in works they deny Him, they are abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work. Integrity says this is the truth, this is the truth, it’s authoritative, incompatible with error, this is the truth, I believe. This is the truth I live..
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Equalizer21
Seattle, WA
53, joined Oct. 2014
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Rtay said.
It makes no sense to say we need to hear the opinions of the other religions.
I agree, Jesus is the way.......the truth.....and the life.....
Colossians 2:10
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
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Equalizer21
Seattle, WA
53, joined Oct. 2014
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Luk 24:31
and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.
Rtay, this is an interesting scripture. It is from YLT , the word unseen here , does not mean, hades.
This also is an eye opening scripture.
Luke 11:44
`Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'
Not only does the word unseen appear and doesn't mean hades.
Look how it describes, dead men walking, like those in the tombs , yet the living cannot see this spiritual aspect, even though it's happening.
Unseen is not in the ancient scripture. Hades means, realm of the dead. I can understand those who believe in soul sleep, can't have a realm of the dead, it would make soul sleep false.
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