"If you are going to take your clues as to what to believe from your parents, grandparents or that preacher you loved growing up without testing and proving it by the Bible and in light of it's historical development then you may, like those religious people in Jesus day, miss God as he stands there in front of you. It was their firmly-held traditional interpretations of the Old Testament that prevented most in Jesus' day from seeing him as the one God had been promising sent to set the world aright."
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Missing God as He stands there in front of you...
Excellent reminder from Paul Littleton who writes -
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exelent reminder. I'm always fighting the head nodding aproach which is to agree with everything someone says just cause it sounds good to me without "testing" it and trying it by subjecting the ideas and principal to daily life. I hope I don't ever miss God.
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