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My Husband, My brother in Christ
Doubt Your Doubts and Believe Your Beliefs
It really is okay to hold specific theological positions. It is okay to believe that there is a truth that is the gauge to all truth-claims. You do not have to make excuses for believing that that gauge of Truth really is God and His Word even in this society where the rapid decline of confidence in what the Bible says is the prevailing belief system.
...some knowledge of God and His truth is innate in every human soul because God placed it there (Romans 1:19-21). He has amplified that knowledge with the more explicit revelation of His Word (the Bible), which He Himself assures us is true, and absolutely certain.In other words, the postmodern notion that no one can really know anything for sure is the fruit of suppressing one's own innate understanding and conscience while denying what God Himself says. (Though, ironically, the fact that people do this so stubbornly is a fulfillment of what God says in Romans 1).
Anyway, that's why the pervasive uncertainty of the postmodern worldview is dangerous. And when that point of view is used as a lens through which to read Scripture, it becomes a positively sinful way of thinking and is utterly irreconcilable with biblical Christianity.-- Phil Johnson
So where do you stand when it comes to truth and certainty? Logically speaking, for there to be uncertainty, there must be certainty. For there to be non-truth, there must be truth... and real truth CANNOT BE RELATIVE... that is just not logical.
Most assuredly, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
--Prov. 1:7
Have you bought into the prevailing attitude of careful and planned ambiguity clothed in velvet on an unfinished canvass of confusion that celebrates uncertainty? Where is the hope in your uncertainty? There comes a time where all Christians have to cast there doubt upon the Lord and trust that HE WILL grow you in the grace and knowledge of Himself. If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God who gives liberally and without reproach. There really can be an assurance of genuine saving-faith salvation. Yes, all Christians have their moments of doubt. BUT, If you proclaim the label of Christianity and doubt continually prevails over certainty, perhaps it is time to turn to I Corinthians 13:5.
...the necessary starting point for gaining authentic understanding of the fundamental concept of truth itself is an acknowledgment of the one true God. As Augustine said, we believe in order to understand, and our faith in turn is fed and strengthened as we gain better understanding. Both faith in God as He has revealed Himself and the understanding wrought by faith are therefore essential if we hope to apprehend truth in any serious and meaningful sense.Scripture describes all authentic Christians as those who know the truth and have been liberated by it (John 8:32). They believe it with a whole heart (2 Thessalonians 2:13). They obey the truth through the Spirit of God (1 Peter 1:22). And they have received a fervent love for the truth through the gracious work of God in their hearts (2 Thessalonians 2:10). According to the Bible, then, you haven't really grasped the truth at all if there's no sense in which you know it, believe it, submit to it, and love it.--John MacArthur (excerpt from Truth War)
John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(Regarding the title of this post... yes, that is from a Switchfoot song... and yes, I do like Switchfoot.)
Comments
Faith is reason at rest in God. --Spurgeon
Posted by: Jon Nunley | December 21, 2007 09:16 PM