This verse 'Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.' clearly states that humans' inferiority in comparison to God's ways and thoughts. Yet, Bible interpretators would claim their interpretation for certain verse is correct to the dot. They accuse others as blasphemious in their interpretations which counter or oppose theirs.
I feel God's omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence transcend his word recorded in the Bible. Supposing he wants to give us more than what are the promises in the bible (please always remember his ways and thoughts are above humans') (because somehow and somewhere interpretators may have missed what God actually wants to say or to give). These people therefore put God or bind God by the very word He said in the Bible. So now God is hand tied. He could only do what he has said (remember the above statement). How dare humans use the very Bible to confine God to a parameter?
2007-02-14 06:04:38 · 9 answers · asked by Ptuan 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hmmmmm:
You looking for an argument or something?
Final interpretation of the data by man is subject to the interpretation of the data by God.
There are a lot of passages in scripture that point to Christ coming and being rejected. Generally these are glossed over or different interpretations are made of these passages, or used as some human interpreted limitation of God's actions. This is why many Jews do not believe the man known as Jesus was the Messiah. They don't read the same information the same way that Christians do, and remember that the first Christians were Jewish.
God is not bound by interpretation of the data by man. Man is bound by interpretation of the data by God.
So even though some people interpret Biblical passages relating to the Messiah as meaning the Messiah has not yet come, most monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam) believe that the same passages prove the Messiah has come.
Either way, God is not bound by what people think they understand.
2007-02-14 06:21:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. His power cannot be confined within any parameter. He is beyond. He is limitless. Isaiah 55:9 is absolutely true because it is His Word. All is written in the Bible. He will not give us a promise which is not in His Word. Pls. remember that God does not contradict His Word. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Therefore, God and His Word are one and the same. God is not handtied. What He said in His Word is complete and we won't need any other promise or deed from Him. His Word is more than enough for us. His Word is both health and wealth. His Word is wisdom. His Word is power. Even though it says that His ways and thoughts are higher than ours, please bear in mind that God cannot contradict His Word. Yes, we use the Bible but not to confine God within a parameter. Personally, I make the Bible the sole authority in my life. But this does not mean that I limit God's ways. He accomplishes His ways through His written and spoken Word-- the Bible.
2007-02-14 06:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jessica 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God's greatest gift to mankind is creation. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The Devil can copy anything else that God does do, so you look at good and evil and you cannot tell the difference from a worldly stand point. Wisdom of this world is from the mind or the Brain, this is Satan's source of attack upon all of mankind.
God is connected to the heart of mankind and he is connected by faith, the same faith that created the world you live in.
We live in the greatest and worst time of all of the known history of the world because at the same time the sons of God are manifesting so are the sons of the Devil which we all do see and understand of us that are spiritual.
If Jesus Christ was God, and not a second or third person as many teach, it is no miracle he could do what ever he liked, but if he as God did desire the same thing from his followers, that is the miracle and the promise all the sons of God do have, if you believe. If you do not believe then you fall into the same boat as Lucifer the son of the morning. Trying to stop the Sons of God because they are your destruction, and they do take you place in Heaven.
May you do not understand but I have a simple explanation for you. God in the Bible say you think with your heart. But you believe you think with your head; Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
To say you cannot believe the Bible does make you an enemy of God, too many Christians can do this with no thought at all, I am very sad to say
2007-02-14 06:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by sirromo4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is indeed the higher power, he inspired man to write the bible and if man made errors then who's to say. Maybe that's why the world is coming to an end God has given man time and opportunity to mend his ways and he did not.
2007-02-14 06:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by lara 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God wrote the Bible via human hands, and entrusted his message to the hands of those whom He knew would record the Truth. Who then is bound God? God himself? God has stated what He wills.
Stop leaning unto mans finite wisdom.
2007-02-14 06:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-17 09:57:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter if he is superior in his intellect, what makes a God, any God worthy of worship. Is the depth of his love and
compassion!This christian God is a God of punishment, and
hate. 1 lifetimes worth of sin gets an eternity in HELL, ever lasting pain.
Darryl the heretic
2007-02-14 06:18:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not remember anyone trying to put God in a box.
God is all powerful, not us.
grace2u
2007-02-14 06:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
precisely.
This is why the "Bible alone" (sola scriptura) doctrine is itself non-Scriptural.
2007-02-14 06:10:06 · answer #9 · answered by Jack Chedeville 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋