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1 | Does God judge nations directly? | Obad 1:2 | DocTrinsograce | 131248 | ||
Another point about semantics: Terminology in the sciences are often the subject itself. My mother studied sociology. I remember taking my first sociology course. I only attended one class, and I aced the course. I thought, "Hey, this stuff is just what Mom's been talking about all these years!" It was all vocabulary! Part of being a Christian means taking up a new language. Its kind of funny in our culture that wants to everything in their own language. I heard a good example this week: Imagine going into a physics class and listening to the professor lecture. Ten minutes into the class a person interupts and says, "Look, I'm from California and you need to use language that I'm comfortable with. Its my right to be spoken to in ways that I can understand." I think it would be clear that that person will not succeed in the study of physics! :-) |
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2 | Does God judge nations directly? | Obad 1:2 | Reighnskye | 131310 | ||
Doc, I'm attempting to understand your illustration of semantics here. You mention that part of becoming a Christian involves taking up a new language. I'm wondering what exact language that you may be referring to? What are some of it's core terminologies, for example? I'd hate to think that a person would not likely be successful as a Christian if she/he had to be formally educated in terminologies that would often require seminary training. - Reighnskye |
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3 | Does God judge nations directly? | Obad 1:2 | DocTrinsograce | 131316 | ||
No Christian succeeds if they are not growing in their knowledge of the Lord and His Word. Growth is an essential element of all living things. Christianity is not a static condition. The language I was speaking of might be better termed a jargon. Understanding this language is not a requirement to becoming a Christian. Perhaps I did not state things as clearly as I would have preferred. As a Christian, in order to understand the essential doctrines, we must learn a new language. Words like belief, faith, grace, love, justification, sanctification, regeneration, salvation, atonement, etc. must be carefully defined. They do not and cannot continue to mean what they meant to us before we were saved. |
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