tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1239368619989119878.post7428015645608592645..comments2023-09-17T00:35:39.119-07:00Comments on dying to live: We may be the Only Bible People ever Read!drgregbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018643621015748573noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1239368619989119878.post-60436884669199344592012-07-26T06:00:29.588-07:002012-07-26T06:00:29.588-07:00Thank you Larry. Your words reminded me of somet...Thank you Larry. Your words reminded me of something I heard Albert Mohler say. You cannot understand the Gospel while you are on the 'outside.' You have to accept it, knowing you won't fully understand until you are on the 'inside.' What an irony! But, fortunately, God gives us the faith to believe while we are still on the outside!!drgregbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018643621015748573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1239368619989119878.post-28863811797386014522012-07-24T10:45:49.393-07:002012-07-24T10:45:49.393-07:00Hi Dr. Greg,
I concur. It has been my experience ...Hi Dr. Greg, <br />I concur. It has been my experience that believers cannot argue a person into the Kingdom. And even if they can, the result is that the new convert always uses reason as the gatekeeper for belief. If it is not reasonable, then it cannot be believed. When this happens, God is servant to reason. The result of that is a cult of denial (God and man cannot exist in the same being, God cannot be flesh and spirit, The bible cannot be inspired by God and written by humans, a loving God cannot have hell as an end of life option, etc.). <br />This is not to say that the Christian faith is not reasonable. As CS Lewis comments, he came to the Christian faith kicking and screaming looking for any other reasonable alternative, but could not find one.The Christian faith is the most reasonable. That said, there also must be room for God to be God (not just a bigger, more powerful, more kindly human). And this is where some of the tenets of faith kick in. God is. In Him, we live, and move, and have our being. God is active and not silent. God is both transcendent and intimately close and personal. God is both the most familiar and unknown. God is beyond paradox to antinomy. <br />Godspeed! <br />LarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com