Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Cvengr

Exactly my point. To assert that your beliefs are more valid than mine is the height of pride and folly.

And to base a religion around the words a man wrote about another man (ie: John, Luke, Peter, Paul, Matthew, etc)... instead of taking the direct word of the Lord (Deuteronomy) is the highest of follies. Saying, in essence, that man knows better than G-d.


74 posted on 03/06/2011 2:01:11 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]


To: gogogodzilla

God the Son is God. His Word is true. This includes the Scripture of the New Testament.


75 posted on 03/06/2011 2:05:00 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies ]

To: gogogodzilla

Consider in God’s Plan how He provides for man.

He provided the Law to Moses as recorded in Deuteronomy. He also provides His Word in the books of the New Testament and directly from Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.

He also provides His Word to every believer via a reborn human spirit via God the Holy Spirit upon hearing the Word of God.

Faith in the believer is His Work.

When a believer studies His Word and God the Holy Spirit makes that thinking understood through the reborn human spirit to our soul, slowly sanctifying the believer, it isn’t simply a random belief system independent of God. it isn’t academics, rather it is an education, a way of thinking developed in us from the spirit first, not the soul first.

It is a work of God. That faith/belief (same word in the Greek) is His Work in us.

In this situation, a person who remains in faith through Christ, accepts the beliefs and faith of God, not belief independent of God. Such belief is more sound than thinking independent of Him.

Believers are not basing their religion around words a man wrote, but upon the Word of God providing a protocol for man to have a relationship with God. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.


76 posted on 03/06/2011 3:02:20 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson