Comments on: Challenge For The Modern Christian http://blog.morti.org.uk/2009/01/01/challenge-for-the-modern-christian/ Applications for taglines graciously accepted. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Steve D http://blog.morti.org.uk/2009/01/01/challenge-for-the-modern-christian/#comment-4183 Steve D Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:41:07 +0000 http://blog.morti.org.uk/2009/01/01/challenge-for-the-modern-christian/#comment-4183 "it’s all very binary..." Quote of 2009, so far! Love it... ...but it's also true. God's thoughts and our thoughts are so vastly different, yet we're arrogant enough to think we're in a position where HE should answer to US. Lummy. I mean, really? But we do, so often. Okay, take it past that step and then the other question remains as "Fine, I can't pigeon-hole God, and woe betide I question HIS authority, but how can I be sure that what the Bible says is actually HIS word and HIS revelation?" Exactly. The Christian would accept the default spring-board as just that and take the argument from there, but others will always question such a stance. And rightly so - and we as Christians need to follow a similar process in order to understand WHY we believe such a thing (the Koran tells the reader that to question it will leave you heading for hell, so committed Muslims and open-minded questioning of such text tend to be rare bed-fellows, for wont of a better phrase). WHY is it the revelation of God? For sure? Is it really infallible, reliable, inerrant, authoritative? Yep. But for a decent explanation of why, I'd refer you to the first few chapters of Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology". He does it so much better than me. Thank God, then, that we can not just know about Him, but we can KNOW HIM. And see His clear, simple blueprint for life and living, plain for all to see. It works. Course it does. It's His. “it’s all very binary…”

Quote of 2009, so far! Love it…

…but it’s also true. God’s thoughts and our thoughts are so vastly different, yet we’re arrogant enough to think we’re in a position where HE should answer to US. Lummy. I mean, really? But we do, so often.

Okay, take it past that step and then the other question remains as “Fine, I can’t pigeon-hole God, and woe betide I question HIS authority, but how can I be sure that what the Bible says is actually HIS word and HIS revelation?” Exactly. The Christian would accept the default spring-board as just that and take the argument from there, but others will always question such a stance. And rightly so - and we as Christians need to follow a similar process in order to understand WHY we believe such a thing (the Koran tells the reader that to question it will leave you heading for hell, so committed Muslims and open-minded questioning of such text tend to be rare bed-fellows, for wont of a better phrase). WHY is it the revelation of God? For sure? Is it really infallible, reliable, inerrant, authoritative? Yep. But for a decent explanation of why, I’d refer you to the first few chapters of Wayne Grudem’s “Systematic Theology”. He does it so much better than me.

Thank God, then, that we can not just know about Him, but we can KNOW HIM. And see His clear, simple blueprint for life and living, plain for all to see. It works. Course it does. It’s His.

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