Why are so many Christians biblically illiterate? | Fox News
This is a serious problem, and it exists in this forum too.
When I got saved, altho I had gone to church as a lad with the family, and dad was always a studious believer, I made a vow to myself that I was going to get it right. I made the decision that I would no longer accept what I had been, and was being, taught as truth. I measured everything I knew and heard against the word. And I consequently rejected many things that I had long believed and accepted as bible truth.
I had many a discussion and argument with my father because of that. And he too came to see many things differently than he previously had.
Many of you here are of that cloth. You read and believe what
you know to be true, but never really measuring it against the word. Being taught something from our youth, having mothers and fathers, loved ones, that believe something in error is not what we want to hear.
I have had discussion and disagreements with folks here because of that very thing. It's always the other guy that needs to reconsider, to see it my way. Never me.
But I don't have a way. I see it as the bible tells me to. And, just as it tells us, when we adhere to the word we are going to be on an island on this planet. Truth will isolate us from most people.
Friends, this is something that we must always search our inward parts about. We must always be on guard to prevent ourself from falling into that error of never being wrong. We must do this daily. Hourly. Ever. It is important.
Folks, think about this scripture. There is just no room for error. We must be right. That requires constant study and prayer. The stakes are enormous. Never in anyone's life has anything been more important, yet we cavalierly dismiss others input because it disagrees with something we have made up our mind about long ago, something we have decided to believe because, well because
that is what we believe.
God is right. Anyone and anything that disagrees with Him is wrong. Period. So it doesn't matter if you got it from your father, your mother, your favorite preacher. It matters if it agrees e
xactly with His word.
I would exhort everyone to constantly measure their beliefs with the bible. Why? Because it is the word of God and God is never wrong. Very simple at the heart of the matter.
Study to show yourself approved, not unto your neighbor, your wife, your husband, your church, but to
God.
Food for thought..............