Subject: Is Limited Atonement Bibical? |
Bible Note: Brother John; I live in the Northeast. I usually like to get up at about 5 or 6 am at the latest. The early morning hours provide me with the best quiet time of the day before life naturally becomes noisy and busy. Concerning your statement: "You must admit, the doctrine can be supported through Scripture." I will say this. People can support anything they want through scripture, and most do. To them they find support for whatever subject they choose. I have seen individuals give Bibical support for most everything. I even have heard people say that they can Bibically support their homosexuality, through OT verses where it says David loved Johnathan. Just one of many examples I could provide, but I hope you see what I mean. For me personally, when reading and studying scripture I need to: 1) Prayerfully read scripture, looking to the Holy Spirit to guide my thinking. 2) Remove any pre-conceived notions about what scripture might say. 3) See scriptural truths through God's eyes, not through Commentaries, or church creeds 4) I need to remain teachable 5) Whenever I see that a belief that I previously believed is no longer scripturally true, I am ready to cast away all previous held to beliefs that were false. (the easiest way for one to be deceived, is to believe that he can't be deceived. Satan is very crafty and subtle, and is an expert in perverting scripture, and without our unreservedly trusting the Holy Spirit alone to be our guide then we fall back on man's teachings. And the Holy Spirit alone is called the Spirit of truth. When many come across a difficult passage of scripture, the first thing they do is run to get their nearest Bible Commentary to see what man says about that text. Scripture says; The Holy Spirit shall teach and guide us into all truth. I believe it must sadden the Lord today when many Christian's rely on their favorite TV preacher or book author or commentary writer, to tell them what portions or verses of scripture mean. They not only rely on human opinion as being the final authority for Scripture explanation, but refuse to trust that the Holy Spirit will be their teacher, as Scripture so clearly states. The Bible, and the Holy Spirit take a back seat to human interpretation. So we today end up with a lot of untruths, and half truths mixed with truth. Just a few last quotes and I will leave off. many Christian's have too readily accepted and have been ingrained with the interpretation of their favorite preacher, Church creed, or Christian Author or speaker, who also got their interpretation from human and not divine sources. Many teachers today, try to force the Scriptures to fit their Calvinism, Armianism, etc. Anyone having an independent understanding of Scriptures as taught by The Holy Spirit, who Scriptures tell us "shall teach you all things," (John 14:26; 16:13) is often ridiculed as being unteacheable. Scripture says; "ye need not that any man teach you." (1 John 2:27). Not Calvin, not Arminius, not Luther, not Wesley or any other man. too much of what formulates our doctrine today comes from footnotes, and commentaries. Scripture says the Holy Spirit will teach and guide us into all truth. The American Bible Society once stated that Bibles should be printed without extra-Bibical comments or opinions We don't compare what Scripture's says by what men say it means, but rather we compare what men say, in light of what Scripture says. God richly bless you John zach† |