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Subject: Should we bias our religious studies? |
Bible Note: CDBJ, good post. The Bible is a different book indeed! It is powerful, that we are told, and says of itself that it is sharper than any two-edge sword. Nevertheless, it is entirely possible to read it from cover to cover, to study it, to become quite knowledgeable of it, and still not really know the Author nor come to a saving faith. Ernest Hemingway has been reported as having made it a practice to read the King James Bible once through every year. Hemingway died by his own hand, a saddened and disillusioned man, and there is no evidence that he ever came to be a born-again believer. He read the Bible for this reason: to keep his literary skills sharp, because he admired the masterful language of the King James Bible. There have been and continue to be men and women who study the Bible, who know it better than some Christians do, but who are skeptics, unbelievers, even enemies of Christianity. Jesus told the Jews, "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me." So in the study of Scripture, it is not so much a stripping away of one's biases as it is the laying bare of one's own soul and coming to grips with the reality that man is hopelessly and eternally lost and in desperate need of the Savior of whom the Scriptures testify. Merely reading Scripture cannot save anyone, but Scripture has the power to lead him to Him who can. --Hank |