Have you noticed the dangerous trend towards replacement of “Scriptural Exegesis” with “Intellectual Rationalism” and “Existential Experientialism” in the Church today. The Church must remain in God’s Word or lose eternal relevance.

God’s Word (inscripturated and incarnated) is our light in darkness, our navigation compass, our annotated map, our standard unit of measure – there is no vision without the light of God’s Word, no direction without the compass of God’s Word, no location without the map of God’s Word, no values or purpose without the standard of God’s Word. Outside the guidance of the Scripture and the salvation in Christ, it is all conflicting reflections, confusing theories, aimless groping and hopeless choices. Thank God for His Word.

Someone said:
“Imagine what it would be like to be lost without a map and without a compass? Remember what it was like to wake up in an unfamiliar place as a child in the pitch black darkness totally disoriented? We don’t have to worry about that now, do we? God’s Word — both Scripture and his Son — light our dark paths and show us the way home!”

Watch and pray that you fall not into this temptation.

The best we should do as Christians is to hold the Scriptures as the infallible prophetic Word, and the authentic measure (STANDARD WEIGHT or METER-RULE) of faith, truth, reason, tradition and experience so that our dark hearts will be illuminated to daylight (2Pet 1:19). When our reason, tradition and experience contradict the Scriptures (or do not fit into the measures of the Scripture) then we err in faith and truth. This is the problem with justifying homosexuality and other sinful vices whether legalised or not.

All the writings of the Scripture are God-breathed (INSPIRED) to have the power to make people wise toward the saving faith in Christ (2Tim 3:15) and can equip and empower every God-dedicated person toward every good work (2Tim 3:17). This is why every Scripture is always profitable for teaching, reproof, correction and righteous training (2Tim 3:16).

The writers of the Scriptures are best placed and most authentic messengers of the Divine Message (Word or Logos) while the words and phraseology of the Scriptures are the most accurate means of communicating the Divine Message.

The closer we are to these inspired words and phraseology of Bible writers in context, the truer our interpretation and understanding of the Divine Word or Message.

The Scripture is the standard measure or canon of the Christian Faith and Witness. Its equivalents in science are the old Units of measure: the ounce, the inch, the gallon, the minute. Tampering with the value of any of these is fraud or error.

Modern Reason and Experience are like the new Units of measure: the gram, the meter, the litre, etc. When using Reason and Tradition, you must make sure you use accurate conversion ratios to arrive at the same measure as the Scripture. Just as we do in every true science (and even in currency conversion).

CHAP. V. — THE INVISIBLE GOD PERCEIVED THROUGH HIS WORKS.
For as the soul in man is not seen, being invisible to men, but is perceived through the motion of the body, so God cannot indeed be seen by human eyes, but is beheld and perceived through His providence and works.

For, in like manner, as any person, when he sees a ship on the sea rigged and in sail, and making for the harbour, will no doubt infer that there is a pilot in her who is steering her; so we must perceive that God is the governor [pilot] of the whole universe, though He be not visible to the eyes of the flesh, since He is incomprehensible.

For if a man cannot look upon the sun, though it be a very small heavenly body, on account of its exceeding heat and power, how shall not a mortal man be much more unable to face the glory of God, which is unutterable?

For as the pomegranate, with the rind containing it, has within it many cells and compartments which are separated by tissues, and has also many seeds dwelling in it, so the whole creation is contained by the spirit8 of God, and the containing spirit is along with the creation contained by the hand of God. As, therefore, the seed of the pomegranate, dwelling inside, cannot see what is outside the rind, itself being within; so neither can man, who along with the whole creation is enclosed by the hand of God, behold God.

Then again, an earthly king is believed to exist, even though he be not seen by all; for he is recognised by his laws and ordinances, and authorities, and forces, and statues; and are you unwilling that God should be recognised by His works and mighty deeds?

If God always existed, then by definition there was no beginning. If you think of our human lives as a section of a straw, it is finite; there is a beginning and an end, we are born, we live and we die. If God always existed, then it’s like having a straw that stretches on infinitely – it keeps going on forever to the right, and forever to the left – there is never a beginning or an end.

After reading several of your previous comments, is it possible that your own assertion above might apply to yourself? It does not seem in your replies that you are open to the idea of God, Jesus, the trinity, the value in Christian belief, or the value of any religious belief for that matter. Therefore, wouldn’t your perspective and replies be biased as well?

Any person (even one who subscribes to the Christian faith) possessing an inquiring mind will have questioned the Trinity, how Mary could be the mother of Jesus if he was God, how people could be made in God’s image if He is perfect and we are flawed..it all seems impossible, contradictory, or hard to believe at the very least. However, if you do more research and take the time to learn more about Christianity, the answers to a lot of your questions can be found; but not every question has a concrete answer.

There are many physical things in this world that cannot be proven by science, not to mention intangible things. Did you know that scientists do not even know all of the effects that aspirin has on the body? All we know for sure is that one component (the salicylate ion) of aspirin is a pain reliever – and aspirin is something so basic in our lives! As for the intangible, can love be proven to exist? No, it is not scientifically possible, but everyone who has loved or been loved knows that love is real. So that leads me to believe that not everything has to be proven scientifically to be known to exist in this world.

If God was proven to exist, if it was proven that Jesus is God, heaven is real, then everyone would believe and become a Christian, right? Then there would be no argument? Probably not. People will always doubt if they want to, whether something is proven or not. Therein lies the point of Christianity, that a person believes that Jesus is the son of God and saved us from our own sin – that’s why it is called the Christian faith. Willing belief can be stronger than concrete proof. And it is also completely one’s prerogative not to believe as well. That is our free will.

As the author mentioned above, we will not know the answers to all of the questions we have about God. We are not supposed to because we are human. To expect to understand everything in this world is a fool’s errand, and that is something that has to be accepted, as is the reality that our own opinions are not always correct – that is the beginning of true learning and understanding.

When you question trinity, son of God and mother of god you are right.Those beliefs are the result of wrong interpretation of Bible.But when you ask is there any God?, the God of Israel says to you, “Yes,I am the God and besides me there is no other God”. And when you ask how can you prove you are the only one living God? The God of Israel says,” Israel is my son and seeing Israel you can believe that I am the only one living God”.

I cannot prove this god in a small email.If you want to know whether the claim of this God of Israel is true and right read and study Bible and history of Jews carefully.
You will get answer from Bible and history of Jews to your questions Like why the holocaust happened and where was the God at that time?

Standing on the desert if you say I don’t see any oil here so there is no oil at all, will it be right? You should drill deep, deep, and deep where there is oil to find out oil, isn’t it? You cannot find out oil however deep you drill if there is no oil in that place, remember you have to drill deep wher there is oil.

If you Search God in Bible deep and deep some times you may find out him if you are lucky and blessed by god.Forget about Christian religion and its dogmas and try to see God through his son Israel, bible says God reveals himself to the world through Israel. God has given you freedom to believe or to disbelieve, use your freedom rightly.

ANNA MOTHER OF JESUS

A must read !

When historians, archaeologists, and scientists, examine the claims of certain individuals it swiftly becomes apparent that many of the claims are clearly fraudulent, and when the leaders of those cults can be exposed as liars and frauds then it becomes clear that they should be avoided like the plague.

Let’s start with Mormonism. The Smithsonian produced a document citing the many and varied reasons why relying on anything in the Book of Mormon is a bad idea as it is filled with errors and downright nonsense.

For example, it is wrong about the origin of the American Indians, as proven by DNA analysis. No geographical sites have ever been found that accurately reflect the claims of the Book of Mormon. Ditto archaeological evidence. So-called artifacts found by Jospeh Smith were found in the 1980s to be 19th century forgeries made using 19th century materials. And on and on and on. So Mormonism is out.

Taize Russel, who founded the JW’s, was a known fraudster even before founding that religious group e.g. ‘Miracle wheat’. He claimed that all translations of the bible were inaccurate and that only he knew the correct translations, claiming fluency in Hebrew and Greek. Under questioning in court he finally admitted, and it was proven, that he did not even know those languages alphabets let alone have the ability to read them fluently. So Jehovah Witness is out.

I could go on and on, but really it boils down to one thing: as Lenin is believed to have said, in the matter of anything curious ask yourself, whom does it benefit? The founder of these religious cults generally have an obsession with money i.e. acquiring a great deal of other peoples, and women.

In the matter of the Christian people however, the situation is very very different (in a good way), as a careful study of the first three hundred years of the Christian movement will lead any student to see.

I hope this helps answer your question.