Sunday, August 21, 2011

One of Us is Wrong - is it the Muslim or the Christian


As a culture we have come to value tolerance almost to the point of worshiping it.  How many of you desire to be referred to as ‘intolerant’?  Our society tends to believe that truth is whatever you believe it to be, and at the same time, truth is whatever I believe it to be.  There is no absolute right and wrong, good and evil; to be called ‘tolerant’ is the best compliment one can receive.  Truth is subjective to the individual.  Don’t worry - Be Happy.

This is how those in our culture can contend that a Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and a Christian, all holding completely different worldviews, can each be right. Those of us who are ‘Christians’ have no problem asserting just how preposterous that is.  However, we have no such objection when it is applied to those within the faith.  It is how we within the Christian faith, can say ‘what I feel the Bible means’ and hold a completely opposite view of what the listener ‘feels the Bible means’.  Paul addressed this very issue in his letter to the Galatians (Gal 1:6-8)

It plays out something like this – while sitting around a table in a bible study group you hear a discussion between ‘believers’ where one says he ‘feels’ that  a Christian can seek a divorce and that gay ‘Christians’ should be allowed to marry, only to have another categorically state that he ‘feels’ that both are abominations.  Both cannot be right, however at the end of the bible study, everyone leaves; complementing themselves on what a great conversation they had, yet they are no closer to uncovering the actual truth.

The reason God gave us the Bible is so that we would know His truth.  He has only one meaning for each text, only one true belief.  The next time you are thinking of saying ‘I feel the Bible means’ – STOP- and instead ask yourself ‘What is God telling me?’

The Muslim and the Christian can not both be right.  One of us is wrong,

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence 

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