March 14, 2008

I believe the prosperity gospel has allowed people to substitute sharing in peoples' burdens by telling them to get "faith" so their burdens will go away.  We no longer know how to be involved in peoples' lives and hurt with them because we are so busy expecting God to perform some type of intervention.

I don't get it when people say Jesus or God called me to ____ whatever.  Are they trying to prove they have a special audience with God?  It must be nice to have God speak to them so "they" know exactly what to do to make God happy in their lives.  I think people on the whole absorb these things with only the left side of their brain.  They do not question if God truly speaks today because inside they are either hearing or hoping to hear God's voice also.

July 19, 2007

Having to assume/believe in the historical authenticity of the Bible, physically written by men and yet claiming to be God's communique to man, is a total act of trust. Unless one comes as a child, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

Man's intellect grows on assumptions fed to him through knowledge and experiences.

God has compiled His testimony in such a way as to appeal to the reason of man and to demand trust from the reason of man. By accepting the Bible as what it claims to be, you are putting your entire life and trust in the assumption of men from antiquity claiming to have seen the Christ raised from the dead.

If your eternal life is based on this assumption, you had better make sure the claims these men make are cogent with the reality you live in. After a while of studying the Bible, you understand man could not produce such a consistent discourse through the time in which the Bible was written. You begin to see your trust is not in the hands of men who physically wrote the Bible but in the God they claim. Assuming something is true is done every day. Having adequate reasons for your assumptions is quite another matter.