tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post2763540576366575541..comments2023-10-08T07:15:19.060-04:00Comments on One Day At A Time: MY BIBLEMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-43613125610942008482008-08-01T12:58:00.000-04:002008-08-01T12:58:00.000-04:00William thank you for your very informative post. ...William thank you for your very informative post. It shows the progress of error over the centuries regarding God's word. Man always has, and always will, try to make himself center and supreme when it comes to living his life. It is our natural tendency to want to shove God off of the throne, or to fashion Him into a God that we are more comfortable with. Even as believers, we can all find ourselves doing this to some degree, when we don't want to give certain areas of our lives over to the rule of Christ.<BR/><BR/>Thankfully, believers have the Holy Spirit, Who has been promised to lead us into Truth, if we are truly seeking it. I am greatly encouraged by this. <BR/><BR/>When we deny the authority of Scripture, we deny the Lordship of Christ. But I am also greatly encouraged by God's promise to, in the end, be recognized as the Supreme Authority that He is.<BR/><BR/>"Cease striving and know that I am God;<BR/>I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalm 46:10.)<BR/><BR/>"For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:9-11).<BR/><BR/>Let's pray for one another, that we will all grow in the grace, and the knowledge (from scripture AND experience) of our Lord Jesus Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-26209920704612105332008-08-01T11:27:00.000-04:002008-08-01T11:27:00.000-04:00The Enlightenment was a period in which orthodoxy ...The Enlightenment was a period in which orthodoxy in theology was deeply challenged. Orthodoxy is, of course, accepting real or perceived truth at face value and then acting, as well as exploring, the greater depths of those real or perceived truths. <BR/><BR/>During the Enlightenment, men - especially philosophers and intellectuals - put forth reason as the sole legitimate source of truth. This proposition did not exclude religious thought as invalid, but it did exclude the application of any religious teaching to the affairs of man, which teaching could not be proved by reason. <BR/><BR/>While the Enlightenment is over, and certain men have tried to regain the ground lost to reason in the realm of theology, we can easily find that Enlightenment thinking is alive and well even within the so-called "church" today. Take, for example, divorce or abortion. The bible argues against divorce except in the case of marital unfaithfulness. Christ said that such teaching was hard for many men to accept - men find the biblical teaching on divorce "unreasonable". It is also not hard to argue from reason that abortion is a viable alternative. Bible-believers can only fall back on scriptural references to life beginning at conception as they oppose abortion. Abortion advocates state that the biblical arguments are "unreasonable". <BR/><BR/>Two philosophers, Kant and Hegel, managed to prove that "pure reason" was not essential to religious understanding or for the application of religious truths, but they were not able to unravel the Enlightenment altogether. Then came Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher, the father of liberal theology, took a different track. He denied the value of the orthodox approach to religion, which values revelation from God as the source of truth, and rejected pure reason. His new road insisted on the reasonable of Gefuhl, the supposed awareness all men have for the existence of a supernatural god-being. Schleiermacher sought to establish that piety was as reasonable as science (derived from reason) and morality (derived from conscience). Most importantly, he argued that theology is not the study of revealed truth (scripture) but instead is the study of man's experience with God. <BR/><BR/>Now, just as we typically grow in our relationship with others, Schleiermacher argued that our understanding of God will evolve; growing out of our experience of him. Consequently, for Schleiermacher, scripture is static and not of great use. It stifles creativity and freedom of thought, attributes thought to be key to the unlocking of various wonders in the natural sciences during the Renaissance and Enlightenment period. <BR/><BR/>Now, as you wrote in this post, many in Relational Christianity seem to think that "experience" of God trumps revelation from God. I will go the further and suppose that many of those same people would be quick to suggest that Relational Christianity would not have been, and is not, possible without emphasis on experience of God over revelation from him. <BR/><BR/>These liberal "experiential" Christian think they have a head-lock on the true faith and I intend to disillusion them.Suppressthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276946492670327201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-84843874951705111132008-07-30T11:23:00.000-04:002008-07-30T11:23:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Suppressthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276946492670327201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-32590670990277629552008-07-30T10:59:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:59:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Suppressthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276946492670327201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-58478391275378433102008-07-29T20:35:00.000-04:002008-07-29T20:35:00.000-04:00Absolutely! Where would we be without it?Thanks f...Absolutely! Where would we be without it?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commenting Bino.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-74498712024395415492008-07-29T16:00:00.000-04:002008-07-29T16:00:00.000-04:00As she read portions out loud to me, I would nod, ...<I>As she read portions out loud to me, I would nod, as if in agreement, to be polite. But truthfully, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me.</I><BR/>I chuckled as I read it. I know what you mean! I have done the same.<BR/>It requires the veil to be removed from our eyes to see the truth for what it really is.<BR/><BR/>Your post was a good reminder of the significance of sticking to the Scriptures. There are a lot people who are going away from it, following their heart. Yes, we do have a <I>new</I> heart, a heart of flesh, but we can be so easily deceived by our emotions/feelings.<BR/><BR/>I agree with you I can't emphasize enough the role of Bible in a believer's life.Bino M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02303467552834533436noreply@blogger.com