Bible Question:
Do people have to be theologians 'to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent'? John 17:3 jm |
Bible Answer: A theologian is nothing more than a person that dedicated a large portion of his life studying God's word. For someone to suggest that theologian's claim to be the only ones that can understand God's word is patently untrue. No true theologian would say that. The Bible was written to us. God would never write something to us that we couldn't understand. That would be senseless, however many of us jump on a verse and try to develop that into a doctrine and this is where Theologians come in. Through their systematic study Bible they see God developing ideas and doctrines, they then can compare a verse in question and see if it is in fact part of that developing doctrine of just a verse taken out of context. The Law of Moses says guilt or innocents will be found by the testimony of two or three witnesses. Every major doctrine found in the Bible is testified to two or three times. Yet there are many that want to invent doctrine on a verse yanked from context with no other support. If a theologian then disagrees they instantly get mad and make statements like who said only theologians can understand the Bible. |