Originally posted by twhitehead
So if you had been given a copy of the Bible with say the Apocrypha included, you would have believed them to be the word of God?
Am I right that the key element in every book that leads you to believe it is the word of God is that it happened to be included in the collection currently known as the 'Bible'? In other words you trust the decisions made by those who chose the books.
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So if you had been given a copy of the Bible with say the Apocrypha included, you would have believed them to be the word of God?
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I believe that that sense of life and peace in the Holy Spirit would have warned me that something was not imparting the same blessing to me.
Nothing can compare to the Word of God. Of course Satan would try to fill the world with all kinds of religious writings which are similar to confuse the situation.
And by Satanic activity this does not necesarily mean that the writers had an evil intent. It does mean that may simply had a
natural intent, an imaginative intent, no leading of the Spirit of God, and no revelation. Yet out of the goodness of their religious heart they sought to "help" by writing something.
IT should be expected that God's enemy would seek to throw people off track by flooding the world with a plethora of other writings which sound like the word of God.
We should not assume that God is not wise enough to deal with these kinds of tactics. Nor should we assume that the people of God could not discern the difference.
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Am I right that the key element in every book that leads you to believe it is the word of God is that it happened to be included in the collection currently known as the 'Bible'? In other words you trust the decisions made by those who chose the books.
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I am a sheep in the flock. And other older and more experienced sheep help me on the way.
God is able to shepherd the sheep through perils.
I was not brought up Catholic. Had I been I would have had a set of problems. I was however brought up Presbyterian which has its own problems.
I attitude is not to dispair that it is a hopeless situation. My attitude is not that God is too incompetent to deal with complex problems and lead His people out into rich pastures.
I don't throw up my hands and or say "Oh well, It might have been a good idea and all. But man is too untrustworthy and there are too many issues that God is not able to work through. So basically, let's just forget the whole thing. God cannot communicate with man."