A double Amen, if that's allowed.
This is where Faith really comes into play. We naturally fall away from it, that's what is meant by the heart being curved in on itself. I wouldn't believe anyone who said that they did in fact believe every second of every day; unbelief -that is falling back into patterns that any one could recognize as believing we created ourselves- infects everyone, as far as I can see. I distrust people who say they have no prejudices in much the same way.
I was just reading an article on the 'trap' that inerrancy sets for believers. Supposedly, the trap is that once doubt about inerrancy sets in a domino effect occurs causing all other doctrinal beliefs to fall away too.
I think that it will be the Evangelical Community that will reinvigorate a Christianity that has been infected by post-moderninsm or moral relativism: it takes Faith, a true belief, to stay with Inerrancy. If God can't really part the Red-Sea, because man says he can't, then the Incarnation doesn't stand much better of a chance of being truth, if what is really driving the whole thing is what is possible by what we know?
Who among us has the capacity to take any observation contra-Scripture and examine it with such expertise that not one whit of faith needs to be imparted to those who state the observation to be not only theoretic but applicable? Should I give my faith to man or to God? I'm going with God.
I just got the Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern. I don't seem to ever be able to have enough versions. I have the King James, of course, The New English, the New Jerusalem and now this one. I like knowing all the Jewish names of the prophets, you can see in some instances how they came to be called who they were called in Enlgish translation. Jeremiah is a good example of this. I have to say though, that nothing surpasses the King James for its elegance and beauty of language.
I wonder if when Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer, if he didn't give us in that all that we really needed to know even doctrinally. Being chosen seems to be in there, the rule and composition of faith and hope and charity seem to be there too.
Amen.
I wonder if when Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer, if he didn't give us in that all that we really needed to know even doctrinally. Being chosen seems to be in there, the rule and composition of faith and hope and charity seem to be there too.
Doube amen. I learned this from my son who read it and understood it even better than I did.
"It's all there in the Sermon on the Mount, isn't it?" he said to me. And so it is.
"They will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."