[asa] Re: (ASA) Romans 1:20

So which seed is which?  What is the ultimate purpose of the Bible? 
Are we led to God by His works or are we led to God only by the works
of other men? 

Jesus didn't write the Bible.  Men wrote the Bible.  Still other men
translated the Bible and yet other men interpreted the Bible to say that
all these various men were unerringly guided by the hand of God to
convey the totality of the Creator for one and all exactly as written. 
Men did this.

I am also a man.  And I don't trust men like I used to.  I trust God. 
My interpretation is the only one that I can trust to be the one that
God wants me to have, becuase I want it to be the interpretation that
God wants me to have, not what other men (and women, to a lesser 
degree) want me to have. 

At a certain point in our adulthood our personal faith must take full
responsibility for interpreting the evidence over the interpretations of 
mere men both living and long dead.  The Bible leads me to recognize 
the grace within me (the Holy Spirit) via the example of the life of Jesus
Christ.  It's not the words in the book, it's the Life (and lives) it protrays. 

I must trust my own interpretation of the Bible as it resonates within
my heart and integrates into my life.  I've come to trust that over what
I perceive to be other men's over-simplifications of the works and words
of yet other men.

-Mike (Friend of ASA)

Hi Don, you wrote:

>In a recent interview with Benjamin Wiker, Antony Flew has explicitly

said that he is now a deist, not a theist.<

“Some [seed] fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away” (Matt: 3:5-6).

Dick Fischer

Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

www.genesisproclaimed.org

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Received on Fri Nov 16 15:52:10 2007