As I spoke in reflection to my first Bible reading it was clear to me that the causality of this universe, earth and life on it, the cause is clear in Genesis. When I get to the the life of Abram we start to see what truth really is. It is abundantly clear he was to live by truth placed by God. Although far from a flawless knowledge of truth Abram through his obedience to the absolutes was seen highly by God and called later in Genesis, Abraham. As a symbol of His pledge, God changed Abram's name to Abraham, which means father of many nations. Abraham knew what the truth was, he knew the laws that where put on every humans heart.
Abram knew what the Lord expected of him and although he did not know exactly Gods plan for him, Abraham had the freedom to live as he wished – But he rather used the freedom to live as he ought. As he ought to live????? Ought, according to whom? or what? is the question that is now being asked. Who decides how we ought to live?
Is truth what we perceive as truth? is it what society, actively believes is true collectively? Or is it something outside of ourselves that exists rather we are here to know truth or not? Truth, It involves not only the willingness to act according to God's truth, but also depending on God to perform his will for us. God promised to give Abraham the land, yet when Abraham got to Canaan, he found that others already owned it. Abraham did not try to buy it, even though he had the means to do so (13:2). Abraham did not try to use force to take over the land although he may have been able. He waited, living in a tent, walking the Promised Land his entire life. When Sarah died, he had to buy a burial plot for her (chapter 23) even though God had promised him the whole land. God said "Go to the land" , "I will give you the land."
Abrahams truth was Gods truth. But if truth is relative to what we perceive or society says is truth we cannot survive, beacause it is not absolute, it is a created belief system within ourselves or by what others tell us is truth. Conveyed simply, God cannot lie, Gods word is truth and it exists rather we use our freedom to seek to listen to what His truth tells us or not.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Day 2 of bible in 90 days
I see now how God is using his word to give me knowledge and wisdom to his workings
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Day1 of bible in 90 days
God will use His Words to speak to me as he wills.
As I stated in my past post toward the challenge I am undergoing. Read the bible in 90 days.
He spoke it all into existence, reminded in true clarity the awestruck power of God and His majesty. There is no way we can fathom or explain in our thoughts or consciousness how it is possible. However we can use logic to help us understand Creation.
This cannot be explained by any science. If we take anything of any material existence we cannot reduce it to coming into existence on its own. Everything needs a cause, causality is clearly at play in Genesis and God spoke all into existence. If there was a cause the cause must have been a creator, a transcendent, personal being outside of time that is perfect, necessary, and eternal.
“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
Richard Dawkins the Atheist who has made it his purpose, in a life in his worldview that really has no purpose, wrote in his past writings “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."Maybe that’s because, to the unbiased seeker of truth, they have been designed for a purpose".
There is an inescapable truth that comes to bare when we beg the question. How did it all begin? The truth lies in the pages of Genesis.
As I stated in my past post toward the challenge I am undergoing. Read the bible in 90 days.
He spoke it all into existence, reminded in true clarity the awestruck power of God and His majesty. There is no way we can fathom or explain in our thoughts or consciousness how it is possible. However we can use logic to help us understand Creation.
This cannot be explained by any science. If we take anything of any material existence we cannot reduce it to coming into existence on its own. Everything needs a cause, causality is clearly at play in Genesis and God spoke all into existence. If there was a cause the cause must have been a creator, a transcendent, personal being outside of time that is perfect, necessary, and eternal.
“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
Richard Dawkins the Atheist who has made it his purpose, in a life in his worldview that really has no purpose, wrote in his past writings “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."Maybe that’s because, to the unbiased seeker of truth, they have been designed for a purpose".
There is an inescapable truth that comes to bare when we beg the question. How did it all begin? The truth lies in the pages of Genesis.
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