Psssst...Unbeliever...Yes, you.
What are you standing on? Where is your hope?
Are you relying on your ability to make a good living for your family? Of course you are. The Bible tells you that those who do not care for their own are worse than infidels. I Timothy 5:8
What are you standing on? Where is your hope?
Are you relying on your ability to make a good living for your family? Of course you are. The Bible tells you that those who do not care for their own are worse than infidels. I Timothy 5:8
Are you relying on your ability to discern truth in a crooked and
perverse generation? Of course you are. The Bible tells you that
perilous times are upon you and even the very elect will be deceived if
they do not apprehend the truth. Matthew24 :24
God doesn't expect you to suspend common sense or your intellect in order to become a person of faith. What He does want from you is a willingness to lay your doubts aside and peruse truth with a bias-free search into all the facts of the issue so your common sense and your intellect will not be stumbling blocks to your pursuit of truth.
It has been the proclivity of man from the beginning to succumb to the question posed by the evil one to our earliest ancestors--"Indeed, has God said?" Genesis 3:1
That questions compels man to do as he has done from the beginning--to doubt God and the veracity of His word.
The original application--HE certainly couldn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy this beautiful fruit--is now interpreted as:
HE certainly couldn't mean that your indulgence of pleasure should be denied.
HE certainly couldn't mean that a 4,000 year old proclamation of virtue still has relevance today.
HE certainly couldn't mean that anyone living in a scientifically and technologically advanced age where any 'facts' worth believing can be proven should be required to comply with an antiquated notion of the existence of a Higher Being.
But HE does. He says of Himself, "I am the Lord. I change not." Malachi 3:6
He doesn't expect you to suspend your common sense or your intellect, but He does expect you to lay aside the frail human logic that has brought you to a point of unbelief and to allow faith to have a fair shake in your thinking.
Just a fair shake...not for HIS sake, but for yours
God doesn't expect you to suspend common sense or your intellect in order to become a person of faith. What He does want from you is a willingness to lay your doubts aside and peruse truth with a bias-free search into all the facts of the issue so your common sense and your intellect will not be stumbling blocks to your pursuit of truth.
It has been the proclivity of man from the beginning to succumb to the question posed by the evil one to our earliest ancestors--"Indeed, has God said?" Genesis 3:1
That questions compels man to do as he has done from the beginning--to doubt God and the veracity of His word.
The original application--HE certainly couldn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy this beautiful fruit--is now interpreted as:
HE certainly couldn't mean that your indulgence of pleasure should be denied.
HE certainly couldn't mean that a 4,000 year old proclamation of virtue still has relevance today.
HE certainly couldn't mean that anyone living in a scientifically and technologically advanced age where any 'facts' worth believing can be proven should be required to comply with an antiquated notion of the existence of a Higher Being.
But HE does. He says of Himself, "I am the Lord. I change not." Malachi 3:6
He doesn't expect you to suspend your common sense or your intellect, but He does expect you to lay aside the frail human logic that has brought you to a point of unbelief and to allow faith to have a fair shake in your thinking.
Just a fair shake...not for HIS sake, but for yours
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