Indeed, but is every word uttered by a Christian the truth? So why believe everything a man discovers is a lie? Yes, their understanding is darkened, but you can you use your own mind through Christ to understand the universe. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water
Proverbs 25:2
Thats not what I meant at all.
But should a christian speak anything else but the truth?
and while not every man always speaks a lie.
Men who neither can recognise the truth about themselves who they do know .Will not recognise the truth about God who they dont .
and men unwilling to be led to the truth about themselves who they do not will be as equaly if not more unwilling to be eld to the truth about God who they do not .
But a man who does not speak the truth about himself who he does know ,will not then speak the truth about God who he does not.
Men may think they understand the universe. Even as men may think they understand God .
But the more men peer into the universe a wise man would say he knows next to nothing .
Only the Son knoweth the Father and the Father the Son.
and a man may know the Son if the Father draw him.
How does God draw a man?
"as the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness so shall the man be lifted up and if the Son of man be lifted up I will draw all men unto me"
In that it says ALL then all men will be drawn.
But the unregenerated man does as Stephen says of it "Ye do always resist the holy Ghost"
It truly is then by the grace of God that we ever came to a saving knowldge of Jesus Christ .
Should a Christian be found to eb lying? No he should not.
For the devil is the father of all lies .
and the devil is not "Our father" who art in heaven.
For it si Christ that dwells in us .
But let us not be wise in our own eyes and think like Peter that the light that he has recieved is all the light that there is .
For when the Lord began to give them more light as to his comming rejection and crucifixition . Peter became a mouthpeice of the devil.
In many ways this insident reflects many if not all the various denominations .Who each in thier turn and one succeeding the other recived more light than the one before . But the one before thinking it had all the light refused what God then gave more when he went "a little further"
Thus each in turn like those of the tower of Babel built each a tower of 'truth' making "a name for themselves " and instead of going out into all the world stopped going and stayed and the fire has gone out .
So now those self same denominational heads are no l.onger speakign the truth but are in a reverse reformation as well as conforming to the world in its human rights and subjective equality.
Do i say every one? Nope.
But what does the scriptures say?
"Behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man has ears to hear and opens the door to THEM will I and the father ..........."
Make no mistake .I am not deriding what we call science. But I am aware that Pauls said of it "so called science" and I am aware that todays science is becoming more and more corrupt and perverted in its use .
How can it be otherwise when they do not retain the knowledge of God in thier minds but fill it up with thier vain theories?
in Christ
gerald
