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Religions > Bible |
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"rhuff163" |
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25 Oct 2004 10:59:46 PM |
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How a fallible Bible |
Devotional Guide
For the week of October 24, 2004
SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT
How a fallible Bible
To Read: Ecclesiastes 10-12
To Know:
"Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, 'That
thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged''."
(Rm.3: 4)
The e-mailer who responded to the devotional guide believes the Bible
teaches that Jesus sacrificed himself for sinners. The writer appears to
believe that the Bible teaches substitutionary atonement but that the book
is demonic, not divine. In this way the e-mailer manifests an integrity that
many preachers lack. Some step into the pulpit to dispute the Bible's claim
to be the Word of God and to merely contain the Word of God. If the Bible is
not the Word of God but contains the Word of God, is it indeed a damnable
book?
The Bible is damnable if it depends on the fallible reader to know the
difference between God's word and the human writer's thoughts. Reading the
Bible is reduced to a guessing game. The reader's faith is faith in self. It
is faith in one's own ability to recognize God's word imbedded in the
fallible words of men.
A fallible Bible has always looked on helpless and mute in the
presence of socially acceptable sin. Among the fiercest opponents of the
Bible's claim to be the unbreakable Word of God were the theologians in 19th
century Germany. These theologians wielded an influence all out of
proportion to their numbers throughout the Christian world. So defeated were
German Christians by these teachers that Hitler took power with hardly a
whimper by most of the German church. Presently the culture of the United
States is being sexualized. A ferocious frontal attack is underway in
America against the historic belief that God created marriage for one man
and one woman, marriage as a boundary for sexual activity. Today, sexual
activity that the Bible calls an abomination (see Lev. 18:22) is justified
in some pulpits. A fallible Bible is helpless to turn back the tide.
10264$-10264
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| User: "John Ings" |
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| Title: Re: How a fallible Bible |
26 Oct 2004 07:26:02 AM |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:59:46 GMT, "rhuff163" <rhuff163@cfl.rr.com>
wrote:
The Bible is damnable if it depends on the fallible reader to know the
difference between God's word and the human writer's thoughts. Reading the
Bible is reduced to a guessing game. The reader's faith is faith in self. It
is faith in one's own ability to recognize God's word imbedded in the
fallible words of men.
Then the Bible is damnable, because it's obvious that a great deal of
the Bible is wrong and the work of fallible men.
A fallible Bible has always looked on helpless and mute in the
presence of socially acceptable sin.
And has often condoned and encouraged evil such as slavery.
Among the fiercest opponents of the
Bible's claim to be the unbreakable Word of God were the theologians in 19th
century Germany. These theologians wielded an influence all out of
proportion to their numbers throughout the Christian world. So defeated were
German Christians by these teachers that Hitler took power with hardly a
whimper by most of the German church.
It wasn't the 19th century theologians Hitler made use of, but a 16th
century theologian by the name of Martin Luther. It was Luther's
poison pen that filled the minds of Germans with the anti-semitism
Hitler took advantage of.
## Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
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