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NASB | Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, 'YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written and forever remains written, 'YOU SHALL NOT TEST THE LORD YOUR GOD.'" [Deut 6:16] |
Bible Question: My sister-in-law believes because God told her he will not let her get a serious disease or injury that she can take extraordinary risks. I have tried to explain to her that she still has to use her brain to avoid putting herself in certain circumstances. She really thinks that if she steps in front of a speeding car she'll be fine. She believes if she is around someone with say TB she won't get it. I cannot reason with her unless I can give her scripture showing that God has given us the ability to make wise decisions and that we can't just put ourselves in harm's way on purpose. Please help! |
Bible Answer: Welcome to the forum! The Scriptures you were given will be helpful. The whole of Proverbs would be useful to anyone. Here are a couple of quotes by well known scholars that might be of help, too. "Men are required to believe and obey not only what is ‘expressly set down in Scripture.’ but also what ‘by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture.’ This is the strenuous and universal contention of the Reformed theology against the Socinians and Arminians, who desired to confine the authority of Scripture to its literal asservations; and it involves a characteristic honoring of reason as the instrument for the ascertainment of truth. We must depend upon our human faculties to ascertain what Scripture says; we cannot suddenly abnegate them and refuse their guidance in determining what Scripture means. This is not, of course, to make reason the ground of the authority of inferred doctrines and duties. Reason is the instrument of discovery of all doctrines and duties, whether ‘expressly set down in Scripture’ or ‘by good and necessary consequence deduced from Scripture’: but their authority, when once discovered, is derived from God, who reveals them and prescribes them in Scripture, either by literal assertion or by necessary implication. "The re-emurgence in recent controversies of the plea that the authority of Scripture is to be confined to its expressed declarations, and that human logic is not to be trusted in divine things, is, therefore, a direct denial of a fundamental position of Reformed theology, explicitly affirmed in the Confession, as well as an abnegation of fundamental reason, which would not only render thinking in a system impossible, but would logically involve the denial of the authority of all doctrine of the Trinity, and would logically involve the denial of all doctrine whatsoever, since no single doctrine of whatever simplicitly can be ascertained from Scripture except by the process of the understanding. It is, therefore, an unimportant incident that the recent plea against the use of human logic in determining doctrine has been most sharply put forward in order to justify the rejection of a doctrine which is explicitly taught, and that repeatedly of a doctrine which is explicitly, in the very letter of Scripture; if the plea is valid at all, it destroys at once our confidence in all doctrines, no one of which is ascertained or formulated without the aid of human logic." --B. B. Warfield "Thinking is subject to logical laws, for I cannot contradict myself and talk sense, yet alone construct a valid line of argument. Good logic is one of God's good gifts, and it is essential to thinking in this and any world." --Arthur Holmes In Him, Doc |