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Ideas -- Wise Sayings About Ideas
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 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 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 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. A good idea that is shared with others will live forever. A person is not rewarded for having brains, but only for using them. A rabbit's foot is a poor substitute for horse sense. A wise man is one who learns from everyone. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Anyone who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. Best place for the knocker is right outside the door. Even the richest soil, if uncultivated, produces only weeds. Every day is Judgment Day. Use a lot of it. Everyone should keep a mental wastebasket for disposing of what's not worth remembering. Faultfinders are all alike--they demand very much in others, but are satisfied with very little in themselves. Few doors are open to him who knocks all of the time. Few doors to success are marked, "Pull," but most of them say, "Push." Finding fault is the most common type of unskilled labor. Good and bad luck are often mistaken for good and bad judgment. Good ideas do not drop into closed minds. Good judgment is sometimes the result of lessons learned from using bad judgment. Great minds discuss ideas. Good minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Grin and bear it if you must--but work and change it if you can. He that inquires much learns much. He who has never made a mistake has never made anything Ideas are like children: your own are very wonderful. If a man could have half his Wishes, he would double his troubles. (<"" /> If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. If you admit you're all wrong when you are, you're all right. If you are contented with what you have done, you will never reach your potential. If you don't aim high, you will never hit high. If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it. If you leave nothing to chance, you'll do few things wrong, but you'll also do few things. If you want to change your circumstances, perhaps you should change yourself. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Keep your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind. Keeping your eye too closely on the future may obscure present opportunities. Lack of good reason for doing a thing is a good reason for not doing it. Looking at the bright side of things will never impair your eyesight. Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. Many a failure never gets his head above water because he never sticks his neck out. Many have a good aim, but they fail to pull the trigger. Minds, like parachutes, work only when they are open. Most people resist change--but without it, progress is impossible. Much talent is wasted for want of a little courage One person cannot hold another person down without stooping. People who wait for their ship to come in usually find it a hardship. Self-confidence is essential to great undertakings. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Some men never change their opinion because it's been in the family for generations. Some people get their exercise by jumping to conclusions. Some people stand for nothing because they fall for everything. Sometimes problems are more elusive than solutions. Success comes in cans. Failure comes in can'ts. Success is never final and failure is never fatal. Success is often just an idea anyway. The best proof of wisdom is the result. The greatest undeveloped territory in the world lies under your hat. The man who believes is the man who achieves. The road to success is almost always under construction. Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticize. Well-conceived plans are a big step towards a job well done. You don't know what you can do till you try.
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