I Doubt – Part 3
Doubt is not incompatible with Christianity. Honest doubt actually leads to exploration and investigation of truth-claims which is a necessary step toward discovering the truth. One of the most doubtful claims of Christianity is that its central source of teaching, the Bible, is divinely inspired and without error. If it is the case that the Bible is not divinely inspired or without error, then Christianity is false and without foundation.
The relationship between Christianity and the Bible is difficult to overstate. Conversely, the level of doubt that many have about Christianity is ironically often due to similar levels of doubt about the Bible! Christians believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word from God to mankind. Because it is divinely inspired, Christians therefore believe that the Bible is inerrant (without error). Sceptics, however, scoff at these beliefs and question how anyone could believe a man was made from dirt, or how another man took two of every kind of animals onto an ark as the world was flooded, or how someone defied a world Emperor by summoning a plague of flies!
A Christian Response To Climate-Change And Global-Warming
It seems that the Christian response to the claim of rapid climate change is polarised between the extremes of outright denial on the one hand and apocalyptic alarm on the other. And these responses often have more to do with theological biases rather than real science.
DENIAL…
There are a large number of Evangelical Christians who simply reject the claim that the Globe is unusually warming. Their denials often downplay the cries of scientists alarmed about the current global warming trends. These Christians scoff at such alarmism and dismiss these weather patterns as merely normal cyclical trends that have carried on this way for centuries if not millennia.
WHAT MOSES MEANS FOR TODAY
The Biblical account of the life of Moses is one of the most prominent in the Scriptures. His life, his work, and his impact is unparalleled in the Old Testament. There is much encouragement to be drawn from the life of Moses for the believer today because he was someone who met God, felt disappointed with God, let God down, but became known as the friend of God who was privileged to talk with God face-to-face.
Moses had failed. In Stephen’s words, he had “supposed” (NLT=”assumed”) that the Hebrews knew he was to be their deliverer (Acts 7:25) when he murdered an Egyptian. But instead, the Hebrews had scoffed at his pretense of being their deliverer. Dejected and rejected he retreated. Moses had jeopardised the redemptive plan of God by his mis-timed murderous outburst. His forty years in the wilderness was a time of going some way to validating the defective proverb- time heals all wounds.
5 Threats The Church Will Face Over The Next 5 Years and How We Must Respond
In some respects, the Church has always been under threat as it has faced attacks from three perpetual sources – the world, the flesh, and the devil – or, to put it another way, from: external forces, internal forces, and spiritual forces.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
-Ephesians 6:12
From the outset of the Church’s inception, it has been under threat. Initially, the Church was threaten by the Jewish Sanhedrin. They viewed Christianity as a sect of Judaism and strictly forbad the Jewish apostles of the Christ from preaching the Christian message.