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1 | Help me solve this apparent conflict | Luke 8:15 | Huron | 111769 | ||
How would one reconcile this verse that speaks of an honest and good heart, (similar to Acts 17:11),with the general Bible teaching that the heart is desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9)? | ||||||
2 | Help me solve this apparent conflict | Luke 8:15 | Rowdy | 111772 | ||
Jer 17:5 This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD . 6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. 7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD , whose confidence is in him. 8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10 "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve." compared to Acts 17:10 As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. 12Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. I think we benefit greatly and see an answer in Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 7 as follows: 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[3] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. All the writers of God's word know from God that the heart of man is NOT naturally inclined toward God's perfect standard of goodness as we see in the One and only perfect Human, Christ Jesus. But our Father knows when we sit for a moment and commune with Him or with His family members as in a worship service, our hearts (the souls of men and women) can be lifted up to Him with a clean conscience. Then and only then, can we feel free to approach our God in prayer or worship Him. It is this inner conflict going on since Adam and Eve, this tug of war between God and the devil for our devotion to one or the other that is portrayed in these verses and throughout most of the Bible. We saw it in Abraham, in Moses in the Israelite's constant swing from extreme neglect to reconciliation to their God. We see it Peter and in Jesus' family members. We see it in Paul as mentioned before and we finally see it in the book of Revelation. So you see, it's nothing new. Good question. God bless. |
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