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Subject: Is God so shortsighted? |
Bible Note: JVH0212 You caught me this is the same question. ;-) I was hoping for fresh dialogue, not saying there was anything wrong with yours. But we kept dead ending as you tried to narrow me down to one particular doctrine in question. My concern is not with anyone particular doctrine but rather with the general concept of discounting something in the Bible as merely man dealing with a situation. What I’m trying to do is get people to think about these men that come on TV, Radio or even from the pulpit who are trying to be popular or PC and say this doctrine doesn’t pertain to the church today. Their usual argument is this was the writer correcting the a local situation and was never intended for today’s church. In days past it concerned, women in the ministry, children and general conduct. Today the same approach is being used to support homosexuality, abortion, stem cell research and the list grows. I say baloney! We either take the Bible as God’s inspired Word and stand on it’s infallibility or we say it is nothing more than the ramblings of men of old who left their situations, society, ego’s, prejudices, and their inherent beliefs shape what they wrote. And I for one will never do that!!!!! In my examples your absolutely right there would be many many things the Pagan would wonder about. But I believe he would come to an understanding of the basic principals of Christian living provided the Holy Spirit was involved. Of course he would not understand the awesomeness of the Balaam’s talking donkey if he had never seen or heard of a donkey before. Or he would wonder about earthquakes if he never felt one. Or find it strange to talk about a sword or a spear if he never had one. However I believe God has supplied in the Bible everything we need to determine if a doctrine, precept, command, or statue applies to us today or not. I think we run into to hazardous territory when we try to explain away any verse of doctrine, precept, command, or statue as nothing more than the writer bringing correction to a local social issue that doesn’t apply today unless we have Biblical proof of that fact. As to the example of the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses, first I think we can all agree the Holy Spirit wasn’t involved. Secondly they weren’t looking for the truth they were trying to apply man’s understanding and logic to scripture. |