Posted on 01/16/2007 8:00:22 AM PST by cowboyfan88
Judges 4 comes immediately to mind.
Matthew 7:14/15 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it./Beware of false prophets...
Wrong covenant.
Thanks for proving my point. See post #18.
It isn't about my viewpoint being superior to yours, or anyone's. Our only authority for doctrine is the New Testament.
Where in Judges 4 is the Christ's Church?
***Bible illiteracy is rampant in the church
Like it or not, it’s time we faced up to the fact that we Christians are blatantly biblically illiterate. We don’t know the Bible nearly as well as we think we do. ***
Sadly this is true. Too many still think the Bible should follow a Cecil B. DeMille script.
Or a Mel Gibson one. Far too many believe they are synonymous.
I never really understood "a Christian worldview" until I read Van Til. EVERYTHING is of God, regardless of whether we acknowledge that truth or not or how far the culture strays, at its peril.
AMEN! Every Christian who agrees with that righteous statement is a Christian who has searched the Scriptures and found their own abilities mean nothing while Christ's ability and will and actions mean everything.
By that Syria-phile traitor, Rick Warren.
No thanks.
This is a good point to make. The humanities courses at my college try to examine the subjects through the lenses of a "Christian worldview." In actuality, it is looking at those subjects thorough a Calvinist worldview. There are multiple cases where I believe that Calvinism deviates from a Catholic Biblical perspective, and I know that Calvinists feel the same way about Catholicism. One thing that has happened though thorough exposure to the topics that are agreed upon and those that are not is that I'm starting to understand and be able to articulate my perspective.
To suggest that Christians should hold to a certain worldview is to assume that they already hold to a certain understanding of the Bible.
Exactly. At least for the moment, a common worldview is only going to be able to be as specific as the similarities we share, which admittedly do go reasonably deep.
I thought maybe the magazine you cite was guilty of rehashing three-year-old news. Nope. Although the magazine article is only half as old, you are posting old, old, old news that has been posted on Free Republic about a hundred times. Kindly make sure we haven't spun our wheels about this stuff before.
Sorry I haven't been around here long enough to know what has and has not been discussed. I don't think anyone can say enough about this topic.
I'd recommend doing a search first.
>> I don't think anyone can say enough about this topic. <<
I'd agree... except it's bogus.
Gee, if that's the rule why don't we just shut down the Religion Forum and save everyone's time?
Dang... and here I thought it was just us catholics who didn't know the bible.
But, maybe we're not being counted as "Christians" as described in the article.
(sorry, don't mean no offense, just being a wise-guy)
I listen to the Bible Broadcasting Network while I commute, cocooned in a time-warp dominated by the America of 1900-1950. It's a shabby and claustrophobic little subculture, glad to proclaim a Jesus who is "Lord" over the inner "universe," but irrelevent to the universe around us. Had to turn off one preacher this morning, his message was so vapid, empty, and B-O-R-I-N-G. How many times can you assert the need for rebirth, and remain oblivious to the purpose of regeneration? Hey, it's fun to think of myself as the axle of the universe, and my salvation is the reason the rings of Saturn spin ... but I think the Bible has a lot more to say about a King, and a Kingdom, and a purpose for living that extends beyond my feeling good about myself!
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