A God honoring Christian loves God's word . . . John MacArthur is speaking on this right now on the radio. That sentence, A God honoring Christian loves God's word, helps solidify what has been bothering me lately.
A little history: The other day on Facebook an acquaintance (who stated that he wasn't big into this spiritual stuff) asked why Christians are saying that homosexuality is okay when it so does NOT say that in the bible. I heard his confusion and I tried to answer him but I couldn't even make sense of it in my own head to be honest with you. Make sense of how these christians are saying the bible is wrong and the world is correct.
To make matters worse - two people who I thought loved our God started talking to me about how many ways the bible is stupid and how they think that this (this being what they think) is the way it really was. (Of course the most confusing part is that they still think they love God - even though His word is stupid in their minds.) I'm not saying they aren't Christians either. We are all on different paths on our walk but I do hope they wake up soon so they don't continue to confuse people and lead them astray.
The words of the Bible can be hard to understand. I mean it does say that we aren't to eat shellfish, etc., but now we do eat shellfish. But this example just shows why we need to continue learning, searching, hearing . . . because then you learn the whole story. You will learn that levitical laws (like the shellfish requirement) are in the past but moral laws (like sexual sins) don't pass.
We need to stay in God's word, the Bible, and we need to lean on other more learned people than ourselves to see the bigger picture all the while praying for discernment and wisdom. The Bible plainly states that if we ask we will be granted wisdom freely. The Holy Spirit will help our understanding. Pretty amazing if you allow God to work in your life so His kingdom can grow.
2 Timothy 3
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