Results 1 - 4 of 4
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? | Ps 22:16 | Reformer Joe | 52902 | ||
This third party posting is getting tedious! :) Someone wrote: 'You “assume” they (and I?) are looking for reasons to “rebel” against God.' I assume it because that is human nature. It is not condescension, it is acceptance of God's revealed truth. And it is not my genius that has revealed it to me, but rather the Holy Spirit whose existence she denies. Romans 1-3 clearly describes the human condition, our total depravity. She is an enemy of the one true and living God and of Jesus Christ, just like I was and you were before our conversions. There is no such thing as "unbiased neutrality toward God," and her post clearly demonstrates this to be true. The God I refer to is the God that has clearly revealed himself in nature and in Scripture. The fact that many have twisted His self-revelation or ignored it entirely does not make His revelation inaccurate. There are many things that are worshiped besides the God of the Bible. Big shock! Romans 1:18 ff. describes this in great detail, with the results that she will face should she not repent. If your friend thinks that the God of the Old Testament is a "horror story," that is nothing compared to the eternity she is going to face when she meets the absolutely holy and omnipotent Judge clothed only in her own sinful rebellion and unrighteousness. Scary? Absolutely. The question she needs to ask is not whether it is scary but whether it reflects reality. I have investigated the history of the Bible. I have investigated how it came to be. I know about the pagan religions that surrounded Christianity and how Christianity distinguished itself from them. Does your friend really think that Christianity is just Mithraism in disguise? Mithraism, or any other pagan religion, was not punishable by death in the Roman Empire. Mithraists were not persecuted anymore than Diana devotees were. If Christianity were truly a syncretism of different pagan religions, that would have been fine and dandy with the thoroughly pagan culture in which it existed. However, secular and biblical history shows that Christianity was not the "easy fit" that your friend claims it to be. The fact is that the person with whom you are dialoguing will continue to be a rebel against truth unless and when the Holy Spirit regenerates her mind and convinces her of His truth. No doubt that she will view such a statement as a "cop out," but that is because her depraved nature prevents her from embracing truth. In addition, since this forum is for those who accept the truth of the Bible as a starting point for discussion here, perhaps this dialogue would be best carried out via private email. You can find it in my profile. I hope that I have been of some help to you here! --Joe! |
||||||
2 | Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? | Ps 22:16 | Hank | 52904 | ||
Joe, there is little doubt in my mind that you, I, and others of our stripe are losing out in the popularity contest with those who embrace falsehood and dissent themselves or who spread the propaganda of those who do. Yet I suspect that you lose no more sleep than I do that might be occasioned by our efforts on this forum to stand by the revealed truth of the Bible and make every effort to refute and denounce error. As I have felt moved in the past to commend you on your uncompromising stand for the truth, so again I applaud you. "Popularity?" wrote Victor Hugo, "It's glory's small change."...... And that seasoned 'pearl of wisdom' from Beatle John Lennon, speaking of their rock group: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first. Rock and roll or Christianity." Well, we both of us might possibly be talked into venturing an 'unpopular' guess on that, might we not, Joe? --Hank | ||||||
3 | Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? | Ps 22:16 | Reformer Joe | 52928 | ||
"For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit; but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts." --1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 |
||||||
4 | Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? | Ps 22:16 | Hank | 52929 | ||
Amen, and praise God! --Hank | ||||||