Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

The crippling effect of the dreaded disease "soundbytitis"



The same is an apt description of what happens in bible colleges and theological seminaries too; students are indoctrinated in a set of teachings held by such institutions. They are not taught to be students of the Scriptures like the Bereans.

Have you ever heard of one such institution teaching its students to ask,
How can a UN-justified man ever believe in order to be justified by God?" What is the spiritual state of a UN-justified man?

or asking,
How on earth can the repeated biblical statement "the just shall live by faith" ever be read to mean sola fidei, i.e.,"the UN-justified believes in order to be justified through his faith?"

or asking,
How does - Gen 15:6 "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness" teach that when Abraham believed, righteousness was imputed to him by God? WHAT did God account to Abraham for righteousness? And what does that mean?

or asking,
If Abraham was justified by God in Gen 15:6, then he had been a UN-justified man before that point, hadn't he? Do you know what is the spiritual state of a man in his native UN-justified state?
Do Genesis 12-14 give you a picture of Abraham as a man still in his native state of CONDEMNATION and DEATH? Do they?

It was said of the Bereans that they put on their God-given BRAIN, and they search the Scriptures. They were not given to sound-bytes! What about you? "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with ALL READINESS OF MIND, and SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES daily, whether those things were so." Act 17:11.

No, such institutions don't teach the students to think and reason, and ask questions; instead, they indoctrinate them. Students are indoctrinated with sound bytes, without thinking and reasoning, that "the just shall live by faith" means the UN-justified shall be justified by God through their act of believing, the fable and fiction of "sola fidei."

Just a whole load of sound bytes!

But what says the Scriptures?
2Ti 2:2 "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."
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