What is a liberal?

How can we know anything about anything

To 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.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

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.

Are those who call themselves, "liberal," misleading us by using the term? Look at the dictionary definition of "liberal" followed by an explanation of the true meaning of the word as it is used by liberals in the press today. It's not the dictionary's fault that the liberals have twisted the meaning by applying the word in strange ways in the media. They wouldn't be able to deceive by equivocation effectively if they didn't control almost all of the media and educational system in the United States and around the world.

adj 1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, tolerant] 2: having political or social views favoring reform and progress 3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative] 4: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, openhanded] 5: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose] n 1: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: progressive] [ant: conservative] 2: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

The problem is that, in America, all the media outlets use the word, "liberal," in a way that is almost totally inconsistent with the definition above.

1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, tolerant]

Those who are called, "liberal," by the media are not broad-minded at all. The are only open to liberal ideas. They are not open, for instance, to the idea that the Bible is the Word of God and that it is without error. They are not open to the idea that there is only one way to approach God, and that is through God’s free gift of His only unique Son, Jesus Christ. They are not open to the teaching of the Bible regarding many subjects such as marriage, property, the Sabbath, creation, the great world-wide flood, and many other subjects.

Well, that would depend on what you would call reform or progress. The people who are called liberal by the media certainly do want to reform the world to conform to liberal principles, redefining marriage, redefining morals, redefining the Bible, redefining the family, redefining the U.S. Constitution, redefining history, redefining science and redefining many other things. They change science so that creative stories, untested formulas, carefully filtered and screened data, all to prove the primary liberal precept, which is the false notion that we are not responsible to God.

3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative]

Those who are called, "liberal," are tolerant of change providing that change does not bring them into surrender to God and His Christ. They become violent when they think of moving toward sincere submission to the Creator of the Universe. When they think of those who are filled with the Holy Spirit, they are just about beside themselves. A Christian must be understanding and not be drawn into the same hate and violence. Rather, a Christian who is led by the Spirit will respond in love and in peace.

They are not bound by authoritarianism, yet they favor socialism, which leads to totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is authoritarian to the point of being monstrous. They are against the authority of the Church, the Bible, Jesus Christ, and God. They favor the authority of Secular Humanism and other New Age religions.

4: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, openhanded]

The people who are called, "liberal," by the media are very giving as long as at least one of two conditions are met. They must be able to give away other people’s money, or they must be able to turn their giving into a publicity stunt. If they can give away money to one group of people by taking that money away from another group of people, then they can depend on the support of the group of people who are getting the money. This type of "liberal" has become expert in getting political power by creating people who become dependent on the "liberal" freebies. All of this costs the "liberals" nothing at all. They use other people’s money to get all this power. On the other hand are the liberals who make sure they get plenty of publicity when they do something for someone else. Often, the point of the giving is to prove to others or to the liberal that the liberal is a "good person."

5: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose] n 1: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: progressive] [ant: conservative] 2: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

This is the one part of the dictionary definition that actually fits the people who are called "liberal" by the media. This type of liberal loves to interpret everything from the U.S. Constitution to scientific data to the Bible in very creative ways. These people add to the facts. They filter the facts. They change history to suit their objectives. They try to form laws to support their anti-Christian agenda.

What is a liberal?

How can we know anything about anything

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