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Every Christian (or non-christian) must decide whether they will us their liberty to decide on their doctrinal beliefs. We are free, but our freedom does not mean we can know for SURE what is right and what is wrong from human perspectives (reasonings). I do have one concerned question about "literally" issue and we interpret God's Word.
I have seen some posts about by some who don't believe what God said happened in the Old Testament. Job, Jonah and others stories to me are literally true according to God's power however seem so "unreal" from sinner point of view. Who has not known that some of the minor facts and miracles of the Bible are the ostensible reasons which many assign why they cannot receive the Book as true, and make it their rule of faith and practice. People talk of the ark, and the passage of the Red Sea, and Balaam's ass, and Jonah in the whale's belly, and ask you sarcastically if you really believe such things to be credible and historically true. All these mighty verities are viewed with cold indifference as disputable points, if not absolutely rejected. In Matthew 12:40 Jesus said, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
We should all take a long hard look at what things we consider to be important from God's perspective rather than man's perspective. Is there a question about God's character or His power in our lives? When we know, we must accept and believe; until we know we can maintain our spiritual integrity only by admitting our ignorance; and that very ignorance will encourage us to search the Word carefully.
I have seen some posts about by some who don't believe what God said happened in the Old Testament. Job, Jonah and others stories to me are literally true according to God's power however seem so "unreal" from sinner point of view. Who has not known that some of the minor facts and miracles of the Bible are the ostensible reasons which many assign why they cannot receive the Book as true, and make it their rule of faith and practice. People talk of the ark, and the passage of the Red Sea, and Balaam's ass, and Jonah in the whale's belly, and ask you sarcastically if you really believe such things to be credible and historically true. All these mighty verities are viewed with cold indifference as disputable points, if not absolutely rejected. In Matthew 12:40 Jesus said, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
We should all take a long hard look at what things we consider to be important from God's perspective rather than man's perspective. Is there a question about God's character or His power in our lives? When we know, we must accept and believe; until we know we can maintain our spiritual integrity only by admitting our ignorance; and that very ignorance will encourage us to search the Word carefully.
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