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NASB | Acts 19:8 ¶ And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 19:8 ¶ And he went into the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and arguing and persuading them about the kingdom of God. |
Subject: Religion Unfounded on Theology? |
Bible Note: "Many men, as has already been observed, are telling us that we should not seek to know Him (God) at all; theology, we are told, is the death of religion. We do not know God, then -- such deems to be the logical implication of this view -- but simply feel Him. In its consistent form such a view is mysticism; religion is reduced to a state of the soul in which the mind and the will are in abeyance. Whatever may be thought of such a religion, I cannot see that it possesses any moral quality at all; pure feeling is non-moral, and so is religion that is not founded upon theology. What makes our love for a true friend, for example, such an ennobling thing is the recognition by our mind of the character of our friend. Human affection, so beautiful in its apparent simplicity, really depends upon a treasured host of observations of the actions of our friend. So it is also in the case of our relation to God. It is because we know certain things about Him, it is because we know that He is mighty and holy and loving, that our communion with Him obtains its peculiar quality. The devout man cannot be indifferent to doctrine, in the sense in which many modern preachers would have us be indifferent, any more than he can listen with equanimity [unmoved] to misrepresentations of an earthly friend. Our faith in God, despite all that is said, is indissolubly connected with what we think of Him." --J. Gresham Machen |
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