What DOCTRINES do you choose?
Do you choose what God said selectively from among scriptures?
I am a theologian; that is, I study God. Yet how? And where do I seek answers about God? Which books of the Bible? What verses?
Who should I believe in my choices about the Doctrine of Scripture?
You won't want to miss some definitions and important church history in Part 1 linked below
or our first doctrinal post on the holiness of God.
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Introduction to Doctrine of the Bible – Part 2:
Questions about God
Imagine for a moment that YOU are the only man (adam) or woman, if you will.
I suppose the best place to meet the LORD is in Paradise — and here in the HOLY Presence of The Other, YOU are a man WITHOUT SIN!
Of course you recognize from Genesis in the LAW of Moses this Paradise you have never seen. Here you stand in Eden in the Presence of the LORD!
Observe this illustrative truth from the Holy Bible:
The LORD GOD is HOLY and until MAN (adam) sins, so were we.
Therefore we began this series with the Doctrine of the Holiness of God.
So here you imagine yourself — in Eden – walking with the Holy Lord God.
In the beginning, The LAW
(Do you believe the entire Creation narrative of Moses?)
אַף כִּֽי־אָמַר אֱלֹהִים
“Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’? ”
Genesis 3:1b CSB
Of course most of us will recognize what seems to be a legitimate question from near the beginning of the Bible when the serpent hissed against the LORD, ‘Did God really say..’
Yes, it would have been a legitimate question IF the questioner had not already known the TRUTH of the command of the LORD God. But Scripture records Satan’s cunning in Genesis . (He knew, but twisted truth.)
Sin is turning away from God
YOU questioned God’s truth.
On behalf of all mankind for perpetuity, YOU crossed the line of obeying God’s commands.
Here you now wander into the darkness beyond Paradise .. continually asking, ‘DID GOD REALLY SAY..?’
And do not think, my fellow fallen saint, that you will choose what is TRUE without seeking the Lord.
Do not ask the one who hisses against Jesus Christ, any tempter who doubts what God said, since the LORD’s command to obey is what they will not do.
SO WHERE DO WE FIND TRUTH?
Do you choose what God said?
Where do you draw your line in the sand about believing the Doctrines of the Bible?
Some preachers don’t believe in Satan or some truths about Christ. (What else won’t they believe from Holy Scripture?)
Roger@talkofJesus.com
ALL of these TRUTHS are witnessed in Scripture. They give mortals many glances at Paradise and eternal life with the LORD God.
You just imagined yourself to be in the Presence of the Lord in Eden on behalf of the generations, but you crossed the line and wandered into the darkness of sin.
O man! I have asked myself, “Did God really say? Then I made excuses to the LORD for my sin.”
What is the ONLY BOOK where one made in the image of God can discern the TRUE words of WHAT GOD HAS SAID?
The HOLY Bible
To be continued...
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