If our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ had made the Bible understandable, we wouldn't need to hear from God today.
That's the beauty of the precious Word of God. You see, God tells the Baptists that you must be baptized in order to be saved. It's in the Bible,
and the Oneness Pentecostals say that if you do not speak the name of Jesus when you are baptized, you'll go to Hell.
And there are many different interpretations of scripture about petty things like salvation, faith, how to live and Hell, but that's the Way God intended it.
So God speaks directly to people. He may tell one that he is 1,000 feet tall and that he is to ask for $10,000 to save his ministry, or God may speak to another and tell him that Jesus is coming back April 14th, and he may speak to even another and tell him to kill all the cats in the neighborhood!
Either way the important thing is to OBEY what God tells you.
Just make sure you can make the Bible agree with it! It's pretty easy tho - God is flexible!
2007-03-09 12:43:02 · 11 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If incomprehensibility and illogicality are signs of the Divine, you're at least Jesus.
2007-03-09 12:47:19 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What theology is that? I think you are confused.
By the way- Baptist "DO NOT" believe you have to be baptized to be saved. They believe you must be "born again" to be saved. Baptism may be a requirement for membership in a local church-but not for membership in the body of Christ.
2007-03-09 20:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by John S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How convenient.
It's hard to understand because people are reading it incorrectly, much like yourself.
When folks realize it was nothing but an ancient forum for the thoughts of the educated, they will stop having problems understanding it.
2007-03-09 20:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by Blue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God is so concerned about our well-being and salvation that he is willing to come down here personally on our behalf, and if he is so anxious that we recognize him that if we don't, he will send us to hell, then shouldn't he be giving us clearer, less ambiguous guidance?
Something doesn't jibe.
2007-03-09 20:47:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So the reasoning is that as long as it's confusing and incomprehensible it must be divine?
2007-03-09 20:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
THERE ARE MANY RESOURCES IN ADDITION TO THE BIBLE AND A CONCORDANCE. THOROUGHLY CHECK THEM OUT FIRST BEFORE SUBMITTING PARAGRAPHS ON SUBJECT MATTER...<>< <><
2007-03-09 20:51:05 · answer #6 · answered by skittles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychopaths use the same argument when justifying murder.
"God told me to".
2007-03-09 20:48:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So basically you are saying to listen to those voices in your head and do whatever it tells you to do.
2007-03-09 20:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by Julian 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 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. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
2007-03-09 20:57:02 · answer #9 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think i see your point, but you are presenting it in a relatively creepy manner.
2007-03-09 20:55:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋