BarneyFife
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and yes it is a lie because there is no possible way that God will ever tell a lie...
How do you know this apart from the Bible?
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and yes it is a lie because there is no possible way that God will ever tell a lie...
How do you know this apart from the Bible?
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Just so you know, “True Faith” is on “vacation”.
See post #756
You can't separate God from the Bible.Without a doubt the most important question you will ever be asked in your Christian Life...
Is your faith in the Bible or is it in God?
If you have to use the Bible to validate your faith, then your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you Believe that the Bible supports a Triune God, your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you believe Jesus was God Himself, your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you believe that God will not talk to you, then your faith is in the Bible and not God.
When you post comments and quote them, please post the entire post and not just bits and pieces.
I know hardly any of you will do that because cherry picking is your way of hiding from the truth...
@Heart2Soul Great quote from Romans 10.17 there........"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."You come out strong with assumptions of how members will respond.
It takes faith to accept the gospel of salvation...that message comes from scriptures in the Bible.
The scrolls that were translated into English that gave us the KJV Bible were all written documents of true events. Jesus taught from the scrolls because there wasn't a Bible back then.
A lot of scriptures in the OT are quoted in the NT by Jesus and by the apostles.
The Bible in its physical composition without any writing is nothing that a man should worship. But when the scrolls are copied onto it the whole book becomes the most important spiritual guide to knowing God and His Will that we could ever be in possession of.
Before the KJV or any printed Bible the scrolls were kept in a vault in the Vatican. No church member had access to those scrolls at that time.
The priest would open a scroll and read it to the congregation then roll it back up and return it to the library.
You're putting too much emphasis on what material the Bible is made of rather than what is written on the pages of the Bible.
Faith Comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Indeed; inseparable.........You can't separate God from the Bible.
Faith comes by the WORD.
Imagine a hypothetical person/society that has no concept of language, neither written nor spoken. How would God express himself towards such people?
That certainly is hypothetical! Every society communicates in some fashion: written, spoken, gestures, etc. Even animals comunicate via "language".
I write this because it came to me recently that God cannot be accessed via thought alone.
Imagine a hypothetical person/society that has no concept of language, neither written nor spoken. How would God express himself towards such people?
What got me on this train of thought was the realization that bronze and iron age Israel was not the same as 21st century information age peoples. We place much stock in thinking. We consider ourselves rational and we make the mistake of thinking this is universal when it is not.
Just something to ponder.
Are you saying that irrationality exists in certain cultures? Every culture has its systems of thought and knowledge.
Without a doubt the most important question you will ever be asked in your Christian Life...
Is your faith in the Bible or is it in God?
If you have to use the Bible to validate your faith, then your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you Believe that the Bible supports a Triune God, your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you believe Jesus was God Himself, your faith is in the Bible and not in God.
If you believe that God will not talk to you, then your faith is in the Bible and not God.
When you post comments and quote them, please post the entire post and not just bits and pieces.
I know hardly any of you will do that because cherry picking is your way of hiding from the truth...
Good question. It really made me stop and think. This is what I came up with…
My faith is in the Word of God; whether that be Christ Himself or His Written Word.
if neither is interpreted to me by men, they are one and the same.
If either is interpreted to me by men, it is no longer the Word of God, it is dogma and idolatry.
Philologos,
Is it possible for you to read the Word of God without interpretation of it?
Oz
Oz is back, well to me at leastPhilologos,
Is it possible for you to read the Word of God without interpretation of it?
Oz