Post by Aeliana on Apr 17, 2023 8:01:55 GMT -8
We are living in strange times. One very popular and influential progressive Christian author— R. Scott Smith in his book Authentically Emergent: In Search of a Truly Progressive Christianity.
He would like us to believe that we cannot be certain about anything, including such biblical doctrines as prophecy. We should therefore dismiss any concern for such things as evidence, proof, debate, and arguing for one position over another. All is ambiguous, we are told.
He goes on to tells us that there are no good reasons for what we believe—and then provided what he considered to be good reasons for holding that there are no good reasons for what we believe. This kind of sloppy thinking is a reflection of our current culture. That we each have our truth.
I'll stick with God's truth it's never let me down yet and I seriously believe it never will.
In the Scriptures, God has provided everything He wants us to know about Him and how we can have a relationship with Him. God is the one who caused the Bible to be written. Through it He speaks to us today just as He spoke to people in ancient times when its words were first given.
We are to receive the Bible as God’s words to us and revere and obey them as such. As we submit to the Bible’s authority, we place ourselves under the authority of the living God.
The Bible is not merely a human product—it is God-inspired. Inspiration does not mean simply that the biblical writer felt enthusiastic. The biblical Greek word for inspiration literally means “God-breathed.” Because Scripture is breathed out by God—because it originates from Him—it is true.
Biblical inspiration may be defined as God’s superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities and even their writing styles, they composed and recorded without error His revelation to humankind in the words of the original manuscripts. In other words, the original documents of the Bible were written by men who were permitted to exercise their own personalities and literary talents but who wrote under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the result being a perfect and errorless recording of the exact message God desired to give to humankind.
Both the Old and New Testaments repeatedly claim to be of divine origin. In Zechariah 7:12, for example, the prophet refers to “the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets.” This is a claim that the writings (“words”) of Moses and the Old Testament prophets were of divine origin.
The apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 likewise affirms that Scripture comes from God: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” Several things are important in this text. First, Paul refers to “all Scripture” (the entire Old Testament), which Timothy learned from his Jewish parentage (verse 15). Second, the actual written text has divine authority—the “Scripture”. Third, these writings were inspired, or more literally, “God-breathed.” Finally, they have divine authority for faith and practice. Because they are the Word of God, they are authoritative for the people of God.
He would like us to believe that we cannot be certain about anything, including such biblical doctrines as prophecy. We should therefore dismiss any concern for such things as evidence, proof, debate, and arguing for one position over another. All is ambiguous, we are told.
He goes on to tells us that there are no good reasons for what we believe—and then provided what he considered to be good reasons for holding that there are no good reasons for what we believe. This kind of sloppy thinking is a reflection of our current culture. That we each have our truth.
I'll stick with God's truth it's never let me down yet and I seriously believe it never will.
In the Scriptures, God has provided everything He wants us to know about Him and how we can have a relationship with Him. God is the one who caused the Bible to be written. Through it He speaks to us today just as He spoke to people in ancient times when its words were first given.
We are to receive the Bible as God’s words to us and revere and obey them as such. As we submit to the Bible’s authority, we place ourselves under the authority of the living God.
The Bible is not merely a human product—it is God-inspired. Inspiration does not mean simply that the biblical writer felt enthusiastic. The biblical Greek word for inspiration literally means “God-breathed.” Because Scripture is breathed out by God—because it originates from Him—it is true.
Biblical inspiration may be defined as God’s superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities and even their writing styles, they composed and recorded without error His revelation to humankind in the words of the original manuscripts. In other words, the original documents of the Bible were written by men who were permitted to exercise their own personalities and literary talents but who wrote under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the result being a perfect and errorless recording of the exact message God desired to give to humankind.
Both the Old and New Testaments repeatedly claim to be of divine origin. In Zechariah 7:12, for example, the prophet refers to “the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets.” This is a claim that the writings (“words”) of Moses and the Old Testament prophets were of divine origin.
The apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 likewise affirms that Scripture comes from God: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” Several things are important in this text. First, Paul refers to “all Scripture” (the entire Old Testament), which Timothy learned from his Jewish parentage (verse 15). Second, the actual written text has divine authority—the “Scripture”. Third, these writings were inspired, or more literally, “God-breathed.” Finally, they have divine authority for faith and practice. Because they are the Word of God, they are authoritative for the people of God.
