Comments on: The Bible and Its Importance

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:46:09 +0000

Actually since I’m pretty convinced by his revelations and don’t find them all that vague (difficult sometimes, but that’s different) perhaps I’m not the best person to ask? And Christianity explains one possible reason. The things that being a Christian leads you to believe (that you’re not inherently “good”, that you will ultimately be judged and found wanting, etc) are things that some folk are strongly disinclined to believe. And while you and I believe that creation itself is pretty good evidence of some sort of god there are certainly those that disagree.

By: sidfaiwu

sidfaiwu — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:21:40 +0000

“Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, to such an extent that men are without excuse…”
How positively deistic of them!
“…yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will which is necessary for salvation.”
Oh, never mind
“Therefore it pleased the Lord, at various times and in diverse ways, to reveal himself and to declare his will to his church”
If God is, indeed, good, wise, and powerful as providence suggests, then why are God’s special revelations so unconvincing and vague? I mean Christianity only makes up 1/3 of the World’s current population. Furthermore Christians cannot agree on what God was trying to reveal in the Bible. Creation, on the other hand is utterly convincing, as stated in the Westminster Confession. About 90% of the current World’s population believe in some sort of Creator, but there is no majority consensus about the nature of God.
I know, truth is not a popularity contest. Majorities have been wrong before (see GWB), but based on the Christian claims about God, one would think that He’d be more convincing in his ‘whole of revelation’.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:40:24 +0000

Well I figure there’s little sense in being anything other than as humble as you can be when talking about stuff like this. I don’t believe that any of us can get it all exactly right and the more folks that remember that then the more unity we’re likely to have. I can think of some fire breathing brethren whom I love dearly that would do well to remember that.
Hopefully I’ll get some more up today.

By: Steve Sensenig

Steve Sensenig — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:09:55 +0000

Scott,
I really appreciate your tone and spirit in all of this. I look forward to engaging in some (what will hopefully be) fruitful dialogue about this.
I’m looking forward to your thoughts and interacting with them. I’ll let you post some more of your thoughts, and then will likely write a responding post on my blog if you’re cool with that.
This should be interesting and challenging for both of us. Thanks for being game for it!
steve