When it comes to what you personally believe in Christianity how confident/certain are you that what you believe is correct?
How confident/certain are you that what you personally believe is accurate?
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Aunty Jane
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Confidence is only a part of “believing”......for obvious reasons.....we can basically believe anything we want to believe, whether it is true or not. Believing something doesn’t make it true, which is why careful Bible study is necessary. We cannot allow others to create “beliefs” in us without first examining the Bible closely ourselves, to see if what we believe (or have been led to believe) actually fits the Bible narrative.
We have so many resources at our disposal to research any topic. Even AI is furnishing knowledge about a lot of things that people wonder about.
There are so many beliefs in Christendom that conflict with the Bible and one another.....and Jesus gave us the reason for why that is so. Just as the devil corrupted God’s worship among the Jews, so he would also corrupt Christianity, creating a fragmented mess of “beliefs” and practices......and creating a confusion that just makes people want to give up.
Unless you know what the original looked like, you will not be able to spot the counterfeit.
How can you tell the difference....? All beliefs have to agree with the whole of what Scripture teaches, and no isolated verses can guarantee accuracy unless they are presented in context, have the authentication of a good concordance and Interlinear translations to demonstrate that the verse is understood as it’s first audience heard it.
Do you want examples?
We're not supposed to PERSONALLY BELIEVE anything.
We have to go to a couple of mainline, sound churches that teach what the bible says.
We must read the bible.
IF there is any conflict between the two churches, we go to those that were taught by those that wrote the New Testament.
What we "personally" believe may or may not be Christian theology.
Aunty Jane
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We are to believe what the Bible teaches us.....yet so many claim to teach what it says, when their beliefs are not backed up except by mistranslation and misinterpretation of certain isolated Bible verses.....if there is only one truth, how can we find it? We have to “seek” the truth
“Mainline”....was Jesus “mainline” in his day? Will his true disciples be “mainline” in a world ruled by the devil?
Satan has the majority, whilst Christ’s true disciples are a hated minority.... (Matt 7:13-14; John 15:18-21) just as they were in the first century.
Since the foretold apostasy was “already at work” whilst the apostles were still alive, why would we hold such store in those who came after them? It was the apostles who were restraining that apostasy, so after they had passed away, the “weeds” did what opportunistic weeds always do....they took over, and almost choked the “wheat” out of existence. Christendom is still doing it.
In Mainstream “Christianity” all have the same core of beliefs in common, but none of them were taught by Jesus Christ. There is your first red flag.
And “Christian theology” is not based on the Bible, but uses ambiguous verses to support their church doctrines.
“Theology” is the study of religious beliefs held by “the church”....not based on genuine Bible study about original Christianity at all.....so when you take those believers outside of that theology, offering Bible verses that are contradictory to their long held doctrines, they flounder.
