I've learned that it's better to NOT understand something than to MIS-understand it. When you don't understand, you continue to try to learn the meaning. But I have thought I understood things, moved on to something else only to learn later that i was WAAAY off.
If we can't know what the scriptures mean, then we can't know who Jesus is , how we are saved, what is right or wrong, whats true or false etc.. It's absurd to think that way.
So, among the great teachers and preachers throughout history, which ones do you declare to be right and which wrong? Because you’d be hard pressed to find three that agree on everything.
@@gaylanbishop1641 it depends on what you define as great, if you ask me in my honest opinion none of them who teach futurism, I believe in the scriptures I also believe in the fulfillment of all things in the lifetime of Jesus and his hand picked disciples therefore all who teach contrary to that in my assessment teach and preach lies, so those some regard as fathers of the faith among other titles and highly esteem I don’t share the same laudatory attitude. My view is a minority of a minority I know but I hold fast to it.
@@gaylanbishop1641 Identify the speck and I may laugh with you. Surely you do not consider reading the scripture for what it is and in its proper context rather than listening to men as a speck?
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
When Peter said that some of Paul's writings were hard to understand, I am sure he was referring to the head covering passage in 1 Cor 11! Thanks for another good teaching, Bill.
Now that is an interesting one. The women and girls at our local small church wear head coverings and do so even when eating meals. the coverings come off shortly thereafter though. Not Mennonite , just a bit of peer pressure from the Church Patriarch is what I can tell...he lets it slip once in a while and one can see he is the one pressing the issue.
For 1900 years the church did not have a whole lot of trouble with that issue. It's only bad exegesis motivated by cultural pressures that has brought the confusion.
Yes Calvinistic views especially concerning free will and baptism in the Holy Spirit - calvanists are moving to a group called a sect - there is no doubt that mr Macarthur thinks he is the most reliable go to person concerning the truth - even the truth that Jesus died for all is false in the eyes of calvanists
Of course we can know what the Bible means. The arrogance comes in when we dogmatically assert that our own interpretation of it is unfailingly right and everyone else is wrong.
Where is your authority to interpret scripture? If you say the Holy Spirit guides us, then how do you explain the other 10,000+ Protestant, Evangelical, and non-denominational churches that all claim they have the divine providence to interpret scripture?
So, when someone says the Bible says do not fear 365 times, it is arrogant to tell them that is 100% incorrect? Or when they decree and declare and claim they can heal, it is arrogant to tell them decreeing and declaring is not biblical, and if they have the power to heal, why then is it the only proof is their proclamation....and why if they have such a gift, why do THEY NOT drive over to St. Jude's and empty out the Children's Cancer Unit?
