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Subject: Is God so shortsighted? |
Bible Note: Hello, my friend EdB. If you will, Ed, I'd like to answer your question without speaking to each aspect of it separately, i.e., about dress, social custom, religious custom, qualifications for church offices, etc. and, in addition, speak to your concern about the tendency of the modern church to rationalize Scriptural commands on the premise that this or that was for them then but not for us now....... Ed, I am 66 years old and have been a Christian for 52 of those years. In my lifetime thus far I have seen an erosion in the church -- and I use church in a broad, general sense -- of the authority accorded the word of God. When I was a young man, the Scriptures were held in awe and reverence. They were the final authority. The Scriptures were consulted when there was a spiritual need or problem -- not some survey or hot-shot "human relations" expert called in from halfway across the continent. The Scriptures were studied for Christian growth and guidance -- not some "quarterly" or "workbook" dedicated to "feel-good religion" and written likely as not by a disciple of secular humanism. The Scriptures were prayed over and meditated upon -- not questioned and debated endlessly. The church looked to the Scriptures for an answer to social and moral issues and ills -- not to the "politically correct" movers and shakers of our time who have sold the church a bill of goods....... You see, Ed and members of the forum, what I'm trying to say is that unless the church truly embraces this old Book, it is in deep trouble and plunging even deeper...... These things do not apply by any means to all churches across the land, and I thank God for that. But they most surely do apply to a shockingly large number of them. It is my deepest conviction, Ed, that the questions and concerns you have voiced would find their solution if Christians the world over returned to their knees in prayer and opened their hearts in humble submission to the inerrant authority of God's word. We've seen enough of "watered-down Christianity" to know it leads down a road of deception and spiritual bankruptcy. --Hank |