Food for thought
"As Christians, our goal is not to avoid being like the
big bad “other Christians,” but to strive to be like Christ Himself.
This is one of the advantages to having an Incarnate God. He went around
acting and speaking and teaching and generally functioning in our
realm, thereby giving us a model to follow. This is the model of a
loving and merciful man, and also a man of perfect virtue who
fought against the forces of evil, condemned sin, defended his Father in
Heaven with sometimes violent force, spoke truth, and eventually laid
down His life for those He loved (which would be all of us).
[…]This is what it means to believe in Christ. Not just to believe
that He existed, but to believe that Christ is Truth itself, and that
everything He said and did was totally and absolutely and irreversibly
true forever and always. Many Christians today — not only the ones in
the video, but millions alongside them — seem to think we can rightly
claim to have “faith” in Jesus or a “relationship” with Him while still
categorically denying much of His Word. This is a ridiculous
proposition. We can’t declare, in one breath, that Christ is Lord, and
in the next suggest that maybe God got it wrong on this or that point.
Well, we can make that declaration, but we expose our belief as
fraudulent and self-serving. We worship a God we either invented in our
heads, which is a false idol, or a God who is fallible, which is a
false idol."
It's all about interpretation, don't you know. You simply can't insist that your interpretation, even on the incredibly clear and unambiguous teachings, is the right one.
ReplyDeleteWhat was that about "transcendent truth"?
Cause you can’t really “know” anything.
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