Well God is good and He may well use Towards Belief to bring
someone to himself. But it seems to me
that the series is flawed, if the first one is anything to go by. What men think seems to be the important
thing and highly educated men at that.
In the episode on suffering the Bible was not mentioned until right at
the end when Job was briefly alluded to. We should not be starting where the
unbeliever is, but declaring what God has said.
Tonight we are looking at the Bible.
No doubt we will start from the parts people find difficult to
believe. Of course they have this
trouble. It is only possible to accept
the Bible if we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. I wait with interest to
see what this evening’s DVD and discussion time will bring and no doubt I will
tell you all about it. Last week we had
only people with strong church connections.
I will be the first to rejoice along with the angels in heaven, if
anyone finds Jesus in these meetings. Putting these courses on is well
intentioned I know but we seem to have put the cart before the horse. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of God.” Romans 10 verse 17. We must preach the word not pick over it to
choose the bits we can accept. The Bible
is a whole and if you reject one part you will soon find that affects another
part and you will soon end up with a very slim volume indeed. Put your trust in
Jesus and you will soon begin to trust His word, the Bible.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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