9/23/2018 0 Comments The Most Important QuestionThere is one question that must be answered before all others. On this question hinges all truth, all reason, all knowledge, and all love. Above this question, there is no other, and it is the basis of all things: Is God who He says He is? Or, to put it another way, is the Word of God, in Its original text, wholly inspired by God and entirely without error? Any knowledgeable Christian will acknowledge some degree of errors in translation, although we have more historical collaboration of the Word of God than we do that Julius Caesar even existed, over 10 times the documented evidence of every word of the Canon than we do of Homer’s Iliad or even Beowulf, and there is an overwhelming drop-off in history and documentation from these historically indisputable words to those who try to piggy-back on Divine Inspiration. Any knowledgeable Christian will also acknowledge differences in interpretation. But this is not what we are addressing here. The question is: is the Word of God Itself inerrant? There are 2 answers to this question. That’s it. Either the answer is Yes, without qualification… Or it is No. And if the answer is No, in any way shape or form, then God is not who He says He is. Who is He? There is no objective answer. As soon as a person places themselves above the Word of God, they have made themselves their own god. They are now the arbiters of truth. There is no objective standard, no baseline, no way of proving anything. There is just opinion. Opinion is fine. There is nothing wrong with opinions. It is my opinion that Starbucks coffee tastes terrible, but Caribou is a God-send of immense delight. But that is just my opinion. It is no basis for truth. They teach children the difference between opinion and fact in second grade… or, at least, they did when I was of school age. The same is true of defining truth by your own standards. When you determine truth, you have nothing to stand on, no one to back you, and… honestly… in the end… no one who cares. If they disagree with you, they can just say, “Well, that’s just your opinion.” And they would be totally justified in doing so. It is impossible to determine truth on your own. What is your name? You don’t know this of yourself, but only by what people have told you and a document someone else made. When were you born? Same dilemma. Who are your parents? Hmm… If you don’t even know who you are on your own, how can you determine the Universe? You can’t. In order for something to be categorically true, it has to match up to a standard. You have the freedom to chose any standard you want, but you can never know it to be the real one. But, unlike any other standard, the Word of God choses you. It comes to you through the Holy Spirit by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the mercy of the Father. It takes your entire outlook on life, and changes it. And It declares Itself to be: “breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” -2 Timothy 3:16-17 You don’t have to wonder if It is true because It says It is. Either you believe that, or you don’t. Either God said it, and so it is… Or it isn’t, and that’s just your opinion.
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