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How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do you believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do you believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. "[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him. The Scripture is not a god. God speaks to us through Scripture. The Scripture is only authoritative when the Holy Spirit speaks to us through it. When interpreted by the carnal mind, the Scripture is filtered into error. This is the reason that there are so many denominations all claiming to have the correct interpretation of Scripture and all rejecting what the Scripture says about its own interpretation. Often, among these
Bibliolatry is a term that has been used since 1847 by many denominations to refer to the worship of the Bible rather than the worship of God. It is idolatry to worship the Bible, though God speaks to us through the Bible. The Bible is not God. This fact is obvious to most Christians, but people become confused. It is equally a sin of idolatry and much more dangerous to worship the human mind and to think that the human mind can produce knowledge without the benefit of observation or revelation. This is known as Rationalism. Most often, Bibliolatry is mixed with a high level of Rationalism. (Read about the false religion of Rationalism.) It is then possible for a person to claim a high level of authority for their rationalized theology. Catch phrases include: "You must learn to trust the Bible." "The Bible is our souce of authority." We must learn to trust God Who wrote the Bible and speaks to us through the Bible. God is our source of authority and He has given us His Word in written form. Whenever we read this Word, we hear the Utterance of God, provided we are willing to obey God. When we have our own mind made up, we hear nothing from the Lord, though we would read the Bible all day long.
It is equally a sin of idolatry and much more dangerous than worshiping the Bible to worship the human mind in the form of intellectualism. (Read about the false religion of Intellectualism.) It is equally a sin of idolatry and much more dangerous than worshiping the Bible to follow the cult of Scientism. God specifically mentions this cult in Numbers 15:39... seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring. Idolatry is spiritual adultery. (Read about the false religion of Scientism.)
All Scripture is God-breathed. The Scripture cannot be broken. God has preserved the Scripture through time in such a way that it is trustworthy and it is authoritative in determining doctrine. Of course, it must be revealed. The Holy Spirit reveals through the Bible. There are minor discrepancies in the more than 10,000 texts that are in existence of the Textus Receptus. None of these discrepancies affect any doctrine. Some have attacked the Bible based on the fact that translations do not always agree, but we have the original text, and now we have the original text in electronic format. There are arguments about interpretations of the Bible, leaving the unbelievers confused and wondering who to believe, but these arguments exist because of the fleshly minds of human beings and these arguments disappear when the orders of Scripture are followed for receiving the revelation. All of this is true, but the Bible is not God. No one can read the Bible without having God speak to the person. Any person who reads the Bible will receive a benefit beyond the words on the page because the Living Word of God, The Christ, will be speaking to them through the written words on the page. Wherever the Bible is read, Christ is. Some people, however, have an tremendous resistance to the moving of the Holy Spirit. They have become puffed up with pride in their thinking to think that human reason, particularly their own, can figure out spiritual things. The Bible is, after all, a spiritual thing that God created. All Scripture is God-breathed. Someone may say, "The minor discrepancies in the Bible can be discerned and corrected only by human reason, not by documentation from the original copies." Whose reason are we to trust? One person reasons one way and another reasons another way. And they both support their reasoning using logic and they both point out that the other person's logic is wrong or that the other person is making the wrong assumptions. Actually, that is not the case. No part of the Bible can really be understood correctly by human reason, even if we were able to transport ourselves back in time and read the original text. You see that most people could not correctly interpret the words of Jesus while Jesus was speaking those words. The Bible is clear that spiritual things must be spiritually discerned. That is, the Holy Spirit must reveal them to us. Our minds are deceitful and desperately wicked. This is the very reason that God has once again restored the office of the apostle to the Church, for it is given to them to receive the revelation, not as individuals but as a revelation that is confirmed because the same revelation is given to them all as it was in Acts 15.
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