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1 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | Hank | 8305 | ||
Well, thanks for the ear back, Mark. You returned it fuller than when I lent it! And if I hear you right, I cannot really disagree with you, and as for that, don't really want to :-) I think I hear you saying in effect that one does not need to be a Rhodes Bible Scholar (if any such thing exists) to answer the call of the Spirit and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as one's Savior. If that's about the nuts and bolts of it, we have essentially no difference of viewpoint whatever. I was saved when I was 14 years old, hardly knowing the difference between and apostle and an epistle, and not being able to give you a very scholarly definition of either. But salvation and sanctification (growing in the faith) are not one and the same, although the former is certainly prerequisite to the latter. The "sincere milk of the word," as the old King James puts it so beautifully, is the indispensible yardstick by which we must measure our progress as we attempt to walk with Christ. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | kalos | 8310 | ||
To Hank and to whom it may concern: I do not entirely disagree with you or our brother Mark. To what you all have written, may I add: It is the Bible that contains the record of the gospel of Christ. The Bible is the ultimate source of all that we know of God, Christ, and our salvation. While one or more individuals may not have owned a copy of or known the Bible the day they were saved, consider this: Somewhere along the line someone who witnessed to you of the saving gospel of Christ has read, understood and used scripture. That is to say, today, 2000 years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, were it not for the existence of the Bible, few if any people would have ANY knowledge of the saving gospel. Take away the Scriptures entirely, and, even if preachers are sent and people hear them, what would the preachers have to preach? What message would there be for people to believe? It is the gospel as recorded in the written Word of God that is the power of God unto salvation (Rom 1:16). Why, for example, was the Gospel of John written in the first place? "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." John 20:31 Saved apart from the Bible? Christ is the Living Word and the Scriptures are the Written Word of God. Try separating the Living from the Written Word. I don't believe it can be done. |
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3 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | Hank | 8313 | ||
Oh yes, oh yes, JVH, you are 100 per cent right in your observations, and in the wake of making my post to Mark I did an "Oops, I may have come across as seeming to say that the Bible is the sine qua non for the Christian walk but not vital to the first step, which is salvation. ..... That is most assuredly not where I stand. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. I was so intently concentrated on trying to get one thing right and ended up, I fear, dropping the ball on the other. A million kind thanks, JVH, for calling this swiftly to my attention. I am in your debt. --Hank | ||||||