Bending Scripture ?
We just blogged about it, but let me pick it up one more time.
This opinion has been uttered, as a confirmation of somebody else's view that pointed in the same direction:
"It is very true that Scripture can be turned around or bent in any direction we please. We must study to show ourselves approved and if we read the Word frequently enough and deeply enough... we will know HIS voice from all the others."
I find this view very dangerous indeed. People might be able to twist and bend themselves in every direction possible to avoid seeing what Scripture says, and they can certainly pick and choose and jump through hoops and ignore verses, chapters, books of the bible so that the remains of it meet their needs. That doesn't change God's word. It stays the same forever, and not matter how much Christians decide to ignore, not one jot or tittle of it will pass away until everything is fulfilled (Mat 5:18).
The bible explains itself, at every turn. Let me give you an example:
People think Peter's dream, or vision, in Acts 10 did away with the dietary laws, when Peter himself explains what his dream meant, since God told him. It was a dream showing him that when it comes to salvation, there is neither Jew nor Greek (as Paul puts it in Gal 3:28), that he, Peter, should not call any man clean or unclean (Acts 10:28).
If Jesus did away with the dietary laws in Mat 15, as people have suggested, obviously Peter was not around at that time, or nobody told him, for his first reaction in his dream was that of shock - he too thought for a moment the dream concerned the dietary laws, and he had never eaten anything unclean in his life!, but then he was told that it doesn't.
So if you stick with what the bible says and leave behind all your presuppositions and assumptions, the dietary laws were by no means done away with in the New Testament. And still Christians all over the world today are just pleased as punch about their pork tenderloin sandwich....
Is this really "listening to God's word", or rather ignoring what it says so that you can do whatever you wish to do without feeling convicted by His word ? And I am just giving one small example that shows why so many people think Christians are hypocrites, for most Christians don't seem to do what it says in the book they allegedly rely on.
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This opinion has been uttered, as a confirmation of somebody else's view that pointed in the same direction:
"It is very true that Scripture can be turned around or bent in any direction we please. We must study to show ourselves approved and if we read the Word frequently enough and deeply enough... we will know HIS voice from all the others."
I find this view very dangerous indeed. People might be able to twist and bend themselves in every direction possible to avoid seeing what Scripture says, and they can certainly pick and choose and jump through hoops and ignore verses, chapters, books of the bible so that the remains of it meet their needs. That doesn't change God's word. It stays the same forever, and not matter how much Christians decide to ignore, not one jot or tittle of it will pass away until everything is fulfilled (Mat 5:18).
The bible explains itself, at every turn. Let me give you an example:
People think Peter's dream, or vision, in Acts 10 did away with the dietary laws, when Peter himself explains what his dream meant, since God told him. It was a dream showing him that when it comes to salvation, there is neither Jew nor Greek (as Paul puts it in Gal 3:28), that he, Peter, should not call any man clean or unclean (Acts 10:28).
If Jesus did away with the dietary laws in Mat 15, as people have suggested, obviously Peter was not around at that time, or nobody told him, for his first reaction in his dream was that of shock - he too thought for a moment the dream concerned the dietary laws, and he had never eaten anything unclean in his life!, but then he was told that it doesn't.
So if you stick with what the bible says and leave behind all your presuppositions and assumptions, the dietary laws were by no means done away with in the New Testament. And still Christians all over the world today are just pleased as punch about their pork tenderloin sandwich....
Is this really "listening to God's word", or rather ignoring what it says so that you can do whatever you wish to do without feeling convicted by His word ? And I am just giving one small example that shows why so many people think Christians are hypocrites, for most Christians don't seem to do what it says in the book they allegedly rely on.
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