Archive for March 2017
5# God told him that what he believed was wrong
I met a man about a year ago who said that God had told him, “Everything you believe is wrong.” He said he knew it was God and yet he wasn’t terribly surprised. He had been a Christian for many years and what he believed wasn’t working for him. His life and marriage were a…
Read More#4 God Likes People Who Want to Reason With Him
When God said through Isaiah, “Come, let us reason together” (Is 1:18), He was speaking about getting together with the Children of Israel and thinking through what He had told them. He wanted to have a reasoned discussion with them. God has never demanded unquestioning obedience. Yes, He wants us to obey, but to obey…
Read More#3 Many People Worship a God that Thinks Like They Do.
The new protestant church had no way to suddenly rediscover the Gospel of God’s grace if they had even suspected there was one. They had no way to know that the Latin translation was not an accurate rendering of the Greek. By the beginning of the reformation in the 1500s, believers were so steeped in…
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