Bible Question: Admit you to have questions that Require answers that you can not explain. dont you. My point God can not be limited to just what we read in the bible. I am not saying that the Bible is wrong. Of course not but is it possible that the life we living will be the next story to tell to the generations to come. If the people in the bible did not record what they where experiencing how would we now that God was real. We to must open the forum to discussions based on our experiences with the creator so that the generations to follow will understand from a spiritual perspective as to existence of the Creator. Faith is Hope and Is not hope a feeling of comfort that nurishes our soul to except some of the things we do not understand. You and I both are in search of the ultimate question of who God is. Where did God come from? I Feel like I want to be with him when my time comes because God I think truly Holds my life in his hand. I want to Me with my creator one day and I've never seem to say Who God is put the spiritual part of me is hungry for God's Love. I want to be in this presence when my number is called. |
Bible Answer: Experience and the Word of God Dear Peaches, I admit that I have questions. “My point God can not be limited to just what we read in the bible.” Yes, but our only source of authoritative, true and reliable knowledge of God is from His Word alone. Is. 8:20 says, “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.” What we THINK we have experienced of God must be checked with his Word. And if what we think we have learned about God from that experience conflicts with what his Word says about him, then that experience has not taught us the truth. It must be according to his law and his testimony or else it has no dawn (light). “but is it possible that the life we living will be the next story to tell to the generations to come.” Ps. 103:2 says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits...” Ps. 78:4 says, “We will not conceal them from their children, But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.” Yes, Peaches, we should tell our children what the Lord has done for us. But our experience will not be the next record of the Word of God. God has told us all the things that he wants us to know and all that we need to know. 2 Timothy 3: 16,17 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” “If the people in the bible did not record what they where experiencing how would we now that God was real?” You’re right. We wouldn’t. But the Word of God is not just a human record of people’s experience of God. It is what God directed only special people to write by His authority alone. 2 Pet. 1:21 says, “for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” So, nothing in the Word of God is there because someone wanted to write down the wonderful things they experienced from God. “We to must open the forum to discussions based on our experiences with the creator so that the generations to follow will understand from a spiritual perspective as to existence of the Creator.” We can do that, but not for the purpose of discovering some new revelation. We can do it for praise and thanksgiving and to put our experience under the light of God’s Word. You know that we still have sin in our lives, and sin is deceitful. This is also why our experience cannot be a basis or source of knowledge about God. This is why the source must be God’s inerrant, infallible Word. ‘You and I both are in search of the ultimate question of who God is. Where did God come from?” From His Word I already know God. John 17:3 says, "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” And God tells us in his Word the answer to you second question. Peaches would you like to know God? Jesus says, ”All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” (Matt. 11:27) Jesus can reveal him to you. Study his Word and ask Jesus to give you understanding of what God says about himself in His word. Jesus said, "... and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.” John 6:37 Peace, Lionstrong |