All questions of the Church and even those sceptics the Lord will choose — questions about when God will finally look more like a King in charge of His own Kingdom creation. This post is not exhaustive of course, but it brings Scripture from the Gospel into our conversation about the Kingdom of God.
John tells us:
Jesus IS the WORD of God and even more than that which we can see or hear.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
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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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.
Temptation of Eve
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?
DOCTRINE – What do you believe?
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?)
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?
We’ve been asking our SELVES in this series the questions of life, as well as questioning our purpose memorialized at our own funeral.
Songs mentioned in previous posts resound in our thoughts from time to time – limited time in this fragile mortal frame. Some ask of meaning while others speak of a purpose driven life.
Is God that purpose?
Does you life have meaning in the eyes of the Eternal Lord God?
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