Ok, so I have been looking around here and seeing some things that make me cringe. There are so many beliefs that conflict with each other. Mine conflicts with yours and yours with mine. So I was thinking of why it is so hard to share what I know to be true through scriptures.
It seems like everything and every truth in scripture can be spoken against. I have noticed that normally what happens is you find out that someone believes something that isn't true. Then as you try to explain why it isn't true you find out they can not accept that because of another thing that they believe which they believe validates their view while disproving yours.
The problem is that belief is also not true. So as you try to explain why that belief isn't true you end up hitting the same wall. It is a cycle where one lie leads to another and another and another, until the entire viewpoint has become one big lie.
And then later they find out they have believed a lie and depart from the faith altogether because of it!
There is something I think we need to understand.
Psalm 11:3
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
1 Corinthians 3:10
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
John 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Ok so we see in John that Jesus is the word of God made flesh. He IS what is written in our Bibles. So we see in 1 Corinthians that every doctrine we believe must be built on the foundation of the word of God. And then we see that if we do not have that foundation (the word of God) then the righteous can do nothing...there is no defense or truth for those without a foundation in the Bible.
I think that a lot of why it is so hard to speak the same things is because we don't stand on the same foundation...or at the very least we have tried to build on it with straw lies. So how do we know if our building is true?
It must be tried by fire in the day as the scripture says. Our God is a consuming fire and He is light. Listen to His word even if it goes against what we believe. If we want to know we believe the truth we must read the Bible to see what is truth. I firmly believe that if we read the Bible and questioned what we believe against every scripture while letting the Bible interpret itself we would do well.
It seems like everything and every truth in scripture can be spoken against. I have noticed that normally what happens is you find out that someone believes something that isn't true. Then as you try to explain why it isn't true you find out they can not accept that because of another thing that they believe which they believe validates their view while disproving yours.
The problem is that belief is also not true. So as you try to explain why that belief isn't true you end up hitting the same wall. It is a cycle where one lie leads to another and another and another, until the entire viewpoint has become one big lie.
And then later they find out they have believed a lie and depart from the faith altogether because of it!
There is something I think we need to understand.
Psalm 11:3
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
1 Corinthians 3:10
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
John 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Ok so we see in John that Jesus is the word of God made flesh. He IS what is written in our Bibles. So we see in 1 Corinthians that every doctrine we believe must be built on the foundation of the word of God. And then we see that if we do not have that foundation (the word of God) then the righteous can do nothing...there is no defense or truth for those without a foundation in the Bible.
I think that a lot of why it is so hard to speak the same things is because we don't stand on the same foundation...or at the very least we have tried to build on it with straw lies. So how do we know if our building is true?
It must be tried by fire in the day as the scripture says. Our God is a consuming fire and He is light. Listen to His word even if it goes against what we believe. If we want to know we believe the truth we must read the Bible to see what is truth. I firmly believe that if we read the Bible and questioned what we believe against every scripture while letting the Bible interpret itself we would do well.