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1 | What's the MATTER? | Col 2:9 | Dalcent | 154855 | ||
It is my observation that evangelicals bring to their reading of the Bible a presupposition. They bring a fundamental, cardinal error that does not allow them to read Scripture properly or to allow it to speak its message in the plain sense. Evangelicals hold a Neo-Platonic view of matter; they believe it is “tainted”, (they do not recognise that they bring to the Bible their cultural influences, a mind steeped in the Greek critical intellect and patterns of thinking). Because evangelicals consider matter tainted, they refuse to believe God uses matter in his saving actions: they can’t. They cannot believe in SACRAMENTALITY. Thus the Bible is bound in shackles. It has been decided what it is not allowed to say. Evangelicals fail to grasp, are not really comfortable with, the fact that God Almighty deigned to comes down from the Glory of heaven and dwell in a humble weak body of dust (Gen. 2:7). The implications of Incarnational theology has not impacted them. Evangelicals bring a presupposition to the Bible, that there is only one possible channel through which God interacts with them: that of fiducial faith. And because they hold this error (they anchor themselves to it) they have to interpret scripture in a predetermined way. Because they believe matter is tainted they just ‘know’ God does not imbue matter with his power. Accordingly, the Scriptures they profess to hold so reverently are endlessly twisted and misread because they are so sure of their fundamental stand. When scripture teaches in plain words: Acts 22:16 ‘Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins’ they feel they have to explain why scripture does not teach this. Their explanations are strained and sound unlikely to everyone who hears them. The truth is, just as God the Son was incarnate in a humble human body, God’s power is really substantially present in the baptismal waters. Likewise, they cannot believe the God who inhabits human flesh can really be in the bread and wine of the Communion; they have to say it is metaphorical. Scripture clearly teaches that Jesus is really present in the Eucharist. He taught that He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. Joh 6:55ff "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink…he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. It is relegated to metaphor. Bible’s like the evangelical ESV though based on the RSV change the word ‘eat’ to ‘feeds on’. Yet trogo (G5176) means to gnaw, to chew on: very strong. Feed on of course lends itself to anything. The Scripture never stands a chance, only fiducial faith obtains the things of God. The denials of the plain sense of the text are conditioned by the presupposition. They are so certain God is not a God who imbues matter with his grace, they do not care what a second-century writer who knew the Apostles made even clearer than the Bible. He had to have been wrong. There were no evangelicals in the post-apostolic church so clearly the truth was lost. Sacraments? humbug! Justin Martyr, a heretic, Polycarp a muddled man whose writings were full errors. Never mind Martin Luther will be along in 1400 years and he won’t be right either, another sacramentalist. But we’ll get to true Bible teaching eventually, yep we’ll get to the evangelical truth. The evangelical reads that Jesus used mud and spittle to heal the blind, (John 9:6 ) but he has to deny that God’s power was really in that humble dirt. It becomes a prop. And what is he to make of 2 Kings 13:20-21. And when the man touched the BONES of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet. That just won’t do. An explanation has to be given why God’s miraculous divine power did not inhabit that humble rotting bone. Direct from heaven, no “tainted” matter did the Lord use. The evangelical reads in Acts 19:12 how face clothes that touch Paul were used to heal the sick. He cannot accept that God’s eternal power really imbued matter and yet this is the mode of operation our Lord really deals with us. The evangelical cannot even accept that pictures and icons of God are allowable. Matter is too low. Yet God the Son took on humble flesh, finite form, he graced our world in person. The evangelical cares little that the bi-millenial Christian church has always held a sacramental theology. That the Creeds, the Councils, the writings of the Christian sages, martyrs, saints down the ages understood God acts this way. Many of the Reformers understood it too. Only the evangelical sings a new song: fiducial faith, God’s actions are ‘clean’, he doesn’t touch matter. Oh that God would show you the Glorious truth that he made matter good and he uses it in our edification and our salvation. |
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2 | What's the MATTER? | Col 2:9 | Dalcent | 154858 | ||
Barring my question, the teaching of 2,000 years of orthodox historic Christianity because of an evangelical sectary's agenda. 'To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.!' Cardinal John Henry Newman. Sad! |
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