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1 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 201379 | ||
A resounding amen to your post, WOS! The Bible, the living word of the living God, is the only truly seminal source of truth, the only sure counsel for the problems that beset mankind, the only abiding and eternal lamp to his feet and light to his path (cf. Psalm 119:105). ...... I grew up in a time when in American publishing history there was a genuine plethora of so-called how-to publications, also known as self-help books. You could buy books that would tell you "how to" do virtually anything. How to win friends, get a job, become a millionaire, lose weight, become a glamorous movie star, think positively, understand Einstein's theory of relativity -- the list was practically endless. Yet those books that were on everybody's best-seller lists in the middle of last century largely have faded into oblivion. Most of them are out of print and few among the younger generation have ever heard of them, much less read them. So if we should hasten to recommend a current book that claims to reveal an easy way to solve tough human problems, such as delicate human relationships, we should be especially careful, being mindful that that book will more than likely turn out to be no easy fix at all. And it will just as likely prove to be as superficial and as ephemeral as the once highly acclaimed self-help books of yesteryear. ...... Somewhere on this thread a user was somewhat critical of other users who had unequivocally cited the Bible above all other books as the supreme source book to study in an effort to find the answer -- God's answer -- to the question that generated the thread. But, seeing no fault in citing God's word as being all-sufficient, I can't in any manner or on any point agree with that critic. We either believe in and accept in toto Hebrews 4:12, or else we reject it. There is no middle ground, no room for bargaining. ...... Sir Walter Scott, the great Scottish novelist, on his deathbed asked his son-in-law, John Lockhart, to read to him. Looking over the long shelf of books that Sir Walter had written, Lockhart asked, "What book shall I read?" The dying novelist replied, "Why do you ask that question? There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ..... When we need counsel, when we need answers to our most pressing questions, when we need nourishment for our souls and strength to carry on, we should not need to seek in vain to find solace in some book that frail man has written. We should seek solace where it can be found, in God's word. ...... "There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ....... "All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17, ESV) --Hank | ||||||
2 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 201385 | ||
Dear Hank, Well said, sir. As always. Nevertheless, for those who eschew the wisdom of old-dead-guys for an imagined doctrinal superiority of not-yet-dead-guys, may I offer the following. This is Article 1 from the confession published May 8, 2006 by the National Conference for Uniting Church and Family. (Note that that was a couple of years ago, and I cannot vouch for everyone still being alive of those who penned the document. I guess I can only get just so current after all.) "We affirm that our all-wise God has revealed Himself and His will in a completed revelation -- the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments -- which is fully adequate in both content and clarity for 'everything pertaining to life (salvation) and godliness (sanctification)' including the ordering of the church and the family (2 Peter 1:3-4; 1 Timothy 3:15). "We deny that God’s people should treat His Word as inadequate for church and family life by supplementing His completed revelation with humanistic psychology, corporate business models, and modern marketing techniques." I am deeply and genuinely concerned that self-avowed believers would participate in a Study Bible Forum while continuing to hold to a uniquely anti-biblical Scripture-Plus philosophy. We pray that they honor our Lord by embracing the truth, which thing we must regularly reiterate, as you have done. (For those interested, see posts #155648, #195841, #195911, and #197446.) In Him, Doc |
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