Bible Question:
Searching and wanting to believe fully, but being a realist this comes with great difficulty. The bible is "The word of God" The bible says... "whatsoever you ask the father in my name you shall have so that the father... etc." We all know that this is not the case! thus 1 of 2 things can be concluded. 1. The bible is not entireLY word of God- SOME HAVE ADDED SOME NICETIES -God can not lie - thus if he said so it would come to pass - ALL THE TIME - BECAUSE IT DOES NOT COME TO PASS AS THE BIBLE STATES ONLY 2 CONCLUSIONS ARE POSSIBLE A.) THE BIBLE IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD AS GOD DOES NOT LIE... OR B.)JESUS NEVER SAID SO AND THUS THE BIBLE IS NOT TRULY THE WORD OF GOD.... PLEASE HELP ME UNWRAP THIS CANANDRUM... PLEASE DO NOT USE THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN CLICHES ABOUT LACK OF FAITH ETC I AM ANXIOUS FOR THE TRUTH. wE ARE TOLD TO TEST EVERYTHING BY THE SPIRIT - THESE THINGS WORRY ME. THANK YOU |
Bible Answer: SAQ: Allow me to add to what Jalek said ... God's main concern for us is that we grow in the Spirit, and that the fruits of the spirit reflect in our lives. So, we are not encouraged to ask for things out of selfish motives. But further, we often ask for things which, at face value, are not selfish, and seemingly in accordance with God's will. There, we run into spiritual warfare, resistance from the principalities and powers of this world. Spiritual warfare is only sort of taught in today's churches. Jesus constantly tried to teach the disciples about it, but they took a really long time to catch on. "Some things come only by fasting and prayer" in the Spirit. In the military of many countries, you have the ordinary conscripts, who perform the most common tasks; firing mortars, setting mines, hunkering down in fox-holes, and etc. Then you have "Special Forces", "Green Berets", "Spetznatz", "LURPS", and all of the other small, specialized, comprehensively trained troops. I suspect that our churches have become complacient, and have lost the vision of "Special Forces", those amongst us who are adapt, fully trained in spiritual warfare. Of course, it is God who calls us to that task, but perhaps there are not very many who percieve the need? Being too few who "volunteer" for that especially dangerous, demanding task? To each the gifts of the spirit, and ask for the greater gifts ... would being trained by the spirit in spiritual warfare be one of those gifts that some should be asking for? You are the one who brought up the question. Could it be that God brought your attention to it, so that you might think to ask God to train and equip you for just that very task? Or at least become a spokes-person to bring it to the attention of your church members? |