Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: Christianity
If a man were to walk around the countryside shouting at the top of his voice: "I am God, I am God!", the chances are that most people, including me, would think he were crazy. True, there are plenty of people gullible enough to believe him and follow him. My dad used to say if you think you're somebody there will always be someone else who thinks you are.
One of the most powerful poisons to our faith and peace in the Lord is the way we perceive other people, or perhaps how they really are. I sometimes struggle with a deep and monstrous problem: the darkness of human nature all around me. How many claim that they don't go to church because of the hypocrisy there? And it's not just in the church but out of it, on our streets, in our workplaces, and unfortunately, even in our own homes.
As a one-time left-leaning, socialist Labour Party voter in the United Kingdom, I regularly watched and listened to news reports from around the world, and sometimes sensed inconsistencies in the reporting. It didn't always ring true. However, as is common in fallen human nature, I accepted the things I wanted to accept and that which I was expected to accept from the "experts", without question.
When you hear people protest that the Christian gospel was all constructed, exaggerated or augmented centuries after the time Jesus Christ lived is said to have lived in, or when you hear cultists say that the facts have been changed many times over the centuries and you need to leave your church and join theirs, you should know that these claims and accusations are unfounded.
It's common to hear people complain that the Bible has been changed many times over the years, so that it's unreliable. This is the way many people attempt to dismiss all that Scripture tells us, and sometimes to shut us up. The temptation for the undetermined believer is to then be silenced, or to abandon the testimony of Scripture and go it alone.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 