Published by admin on 17 Sep 2008
When should we let our brains decide what is true about the world? After all, God gave us a brain (I know this is debatable, but allow me some latitude here), and it is only natural that He wants us to use it. Nobody could argue with this.
Published by admin on 20 Aug 2008
Field of Dreams is one of the greatest baseball movies of all time. You remember the story. Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him to plow under his corn crop and build a baseball field. Everybody thinks he’s crazy; he thinks he’s crazy. But when he does it, baseball players from long ago begin showing up on his field, appearing out of nowhere from between the corn stalks. Ray and his family believe.
Published by admin on 23 Jun 2008
Perhaps you’ve heard this before. You are trying to share with someone (Christian or non-Christian) something that the Bible teaches. You say, “The Bible says so-and-so…” Their reply amounts to quick stiff-arm: “Well, that’s your interpretation.”
What the person is trying to communicate to you is that they doubt that the words of the Bible can be understood with any certainty so many years after they were written, and you can see their point. It seems like everybody has their ‘take’ on what the Bible says or doesn’t say. With all these ‘opinions,’ maybe there is really no way to tell for sure.
However, is this really true? Is it impossible to understand what the original Biblical authors meant? Although I grant you there are some things in the Bible that are difficult to understand, I submit it is not only possible for us to understand its central teachings about God, Jesus, and right and wrong, but fairly easy. You do this, not through some super-spiritual, insider-only set of guidelines, but just like you would understand any other form of communication in your day-to-day life. Let me give you an example.