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6961 | Is God's Word Complete ? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 32938 | ||
Hello, Robert. Greetings from the land down under! I'm not in Australia but Arkansas, and that is down under Canada :-).... Robert, there can be no doubt that the OT and NT canons are closed for all eternity. Jude 3 speaks in unambiguous language about the subject, using the words "once for all delivered to the saints" in speaking of the faith. I believe that the Scriptures reveal God in the exact manner that God has willed to reveal himself. Accordingly, I believe that no one today is the recipient of any special, extra-biblical revelation from God, and that anyone who proclaims that God has made him privy to any such revelation is a false teacher. Hebrews begins with the declaration that in times past God spoke through prophets but in these last days has spoken to us through His Son, and the Scriptures testify of God's Son, Jesus Christ. In summation: The canon is closed; the Scriptures are complete; claims to extra-biblical revelation are heretical. --Hank | ||||||
6962 | Originals? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 79375 | ||
Radioman, the procedure the JW's and kindred cults use to lend a semblance of credence to many of their false and far-fetched claims, in addition to being unconvincing, is neither new nor clever. In the annals of human history and thought, it has always been possible to exhume some sort of pseudo-authoritarian "proof" to support virtually any position on any conceivable topic. It is easy enough to dig into dusty tomes of the past and come up with evidence of sorts that would overwhelmingly support a thesis that the earth is flat. The problem from a theological perspective issues from taking individual preconceptions of truth to scripture with demands that scripture itself conform to them. This practice, of course, entails the substitution of exegesis for eisegesis; or, in extreme cases such as one sees in portions of the New World Translation, a surgical treatment of scriptural text in which passages are blatantly mistranslated or excised completely from the text. While the numbers of persons who hold on to the flat-earth position have dwindled dramatically, the numbers who are deceived by the false doctrines of the cults are legion still and continue to rise. --Hank | ||||||
6963 | Originals? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 79488 | ||
Excellent, Joe. And should it console you (assuming misery loves company), while you ruminate on the reality that Texas gave the world Hagee, please ponder on the cross that we Arkies must bear as best we can: The Natural State gave the world a certain undistinguished two-term national president. :-( --Hank | ||||||
6964 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91400 | ||
Dear John: Quoting a fine line from your post: "I believe that God is at the center." And so do I, so do I! ...... God-centered theology, how sweet it is! ..... Hardly a day passes that one doesn't see ample evidence of how far so many professing Christians have strayed from the precept that God and God alone is the potter and we are the clay. Faith in faith is futile; faith in God is the only faith worth having. "Speak it and it will come to pass" is a ridiculous statement coming from human lips. Only God can do that! Multitudes today possess a 'name-it-and-claim-it' mentality, as though God actually owed them a debt. Through grace alone, not through any merit or claim that man possesses or will ever possess, and not because He owed us anything, Jesus Christ has already paid the debt for man's sin by His suffering and death on the cross! He does not owe man the guarantee of physcial health and financial prosperity in this life! Has the church lost track of who is the potter and who is the clay? How sad it is to see questions being posed here and elsewhere that ask, Why did God do this or that, or why didn't God do this or that? "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, 'Why have you made me like this?' Does not the potter have power over the clay?" Will man never learn to stop trying to create God in his own image? Will he never learn who's the boss? --Hank | ||||||
6965 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91402 | ||
Radioman, this "faith in faith" mania that is pervading so many churches assumes that faith itself is the supreme source of power -- "believe it and speak it and you will have it." Therefore, proceeding on this utterly false permise that faith is the ultimate source of power, would not one need to follow it to its inevitable conclusion that even God in order to retain His power must necessarily have faith too? These off-the-wall heresies have a way of leading down bizarre and slippery paths. Sometimes it makes one wonder whatever happened to orthodox Christianity. --Hank | ||||||
6966 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91464 | ||
Like art museums don't attract as many visitors as circuses and carnivals? Or classical music as rock? Or Shakespeare as comic books? Or biblical expositional preachers as Kenny Copeland or Benny the Hinn? --Hank | ||||||
6967 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91735 | ||
No, angel, I'm not an artist. But I know the Artist of heaven and earth -- the Potter -- and I'm grateful to be a small piece of His clay! May my prayer -- and yours -- ever be, "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter; I am the clay. Mold me and make after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still." --Hank | ||||||
6968 | Why do some sermons misrepresent truth? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 145549 | ||
Gilderd ::: Thanks for your question and for voicing your concern about the content of some of the sermons that are being delivered in our time. While I don't mean to down play any of the specific criticisms you cited, I offer that they are trivial by comparison to other more serious things that are being preached from pulpits these days. From a multitude of examples here are a few. Congregations of worshipers are being told to name it and claim it: the infamous and heretical Word of Faith Movement. Others are being told that a woman has a right to choose: to get an abortion if she chooses, and for any reason at all. Other sermons promote and encourage unrepentent practicing homosexuals to be admitted to the fellowship of the saints and, in fact, to be ordained as bishops or allowed to serve in other positions of leadership within the church, the body of Christ. Many is the sermon today that paints God as a fuzzy old celestial elf in the sky who would not harm a fly, much less condemn any human being to hell. I've heard sermon after sermon in which terms such as hell, sin, repent, the shedding of blood, the wrath of God, and obedience to God's commands were never, never mentioned. In short, the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ to sinners who are dead in their sins and surely on their way to hell has given way to an alarming degree to a fuzzy wuzzy, feel-good religion that is carefully engineered to tickle the ears and entertain. It isn't a new wrinkle by any means. Charles Haddon Spurgeon fought it in his day, calling the dumbing-down of the Christian message the "down grade." Well, what began to go "down grade" in Spurgeon's time has continued steadily since. When one begins to think it has sunk as low as it can go, someone comes along with yet another trick to pull it farther into the pits. God have mercy on us and jar us back into our senses! --Hank | ||||||
6969 | Does God speak to us in dreams today? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 158739 | ||
Serras, hello. One does in no wise "weaken the faith of the brethern" by "always being ready to make a defense to everyone you asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you" (see 1 Peter 3:15). ..... It has long been a mystery to me why God would have gone to the trouble to inspire 66 books that progressively reveal Himself to mankind and lay down in terms that he who runs may understand His plan of redemption when, as some claim, He reveals Himself to them individually through dreams and visions. Is God being redundant? Does Scripture need a supplement? Or is Scripture wrong when it says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17). ...... Much has been written on these Forum pages about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as if this were an optional post-salvific event that was visited only upon those who prayed earnestly for it. Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit is the supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration, baptizing ALL believers into the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13). The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs and empowers them for service and seals them unto the day of redemption (Romans 8:9-11; 2 Cor. 3:6; Ephesians 1:13). ...... Finally, as others have pointed out, this web site is called Study Bible Forum. Relating personal experiences of dreams and visions, real or imagined; stating beliefs in personal revelation, real or imagined; and posting all this based on nothing but narration of one's experiences, uncorroborated and undocumented by Scripture, not only strains the credulity of the readers of this Forum but departs far afield of the aims and purposes of this Forum. As Doc has so aptly and accurately stated it, "This is a Bible Study Forum, not an Experience Study Forum." ..... A postscript ... How much easier it is to dream and have visions than to learn God's will through a diligent, sustained and prayerful study of His precious word. But to sit back and wait for the visions to come is not what the Bereans did and it is not what Paul told Timothy to do in 2 Timothy 2:15. Good day. --Hank | ||||||
6970 | Will Christ be coming back very soon? | Rev 22:20 | Hank | 51721 | ||
Andrew, of that day and hour no one knows but God [Matt.24:36] It COULD be within the next couple of years of course, as your full question asks, or in the next couple of minutes, or in a couple of thousand years. One guess is as good as another -- and we are deceived if we believe anyone who claims to know...... Out of curiosity, why did you set a possible time frame of "within the next couple of years"? The New Testament speaks of our time as the 'last days,' but that covers the entire Christian era, from the first Advent of Christ to the second. No specific measure of time is given, i.e., the Bible is silent on exactly how long the 'last days' will last until Christ returns, but it is clear in its teaching that He will return. --Hank | ||||||
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