tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post1454632500332322391..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Getting Past Your Lying EyesKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-23554431471250593382016-09-01T12:07:02.274-07:002016-09-01T12:07:02.274-07:00Ken,
Right on.
James,
Very good.Ken,<br /><br />Right on.<br /><br />James,<br /><br />Very good.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-36264847210598647492016-08-31T17:49:45.300-07:002016-08-31T17:49:45.300-07:00I have just started going through this as I preach...I have just started going through this as I preach through Genesis, particularly with the temptation of Eve. Every form of false religion comes back to this offer of false experiential religion (in all of its appearances and manifestations). It's just packaged in different ways.<br /><br />One of the things that John Owen argues so powerfully when it comes to the word-perfect preservation of Scripture (for the textual critics who actually want to think a little, I'll point out that Owen was pre-1950's-KJV-Only-started-by-a-Seventh-Day-Adventist-movement by a few years), is that God has obligated himself to preserve His words perfectly, because they are the only means of specific revelation of Himself that we have. Hence, if they are corrupted, so is the revelation of God Himself, and without pure revelation, we are left with God having provided a corrupt revelation of Himself (I could take it further and point out that corrupt revelation results in corrupt worship, which is, not coincidentally, a big problem today). Owen, of course, makes that point far more poignantly than I am doing.<br /><br />Our eyes lie and our hearts deceive. If God's Word was not available in every generation, then He has failed in His revelation to man (upon which every generation is dependent), who cannot truly know him without the revelation that comes exclusively from God in His Word.James Bronsveldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330385638322033748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-26534717404039856242016-08-31T17:29:28.880-07:002016-08-31T17:29:28.880-07:00IMHO, that is why I believe mankind's first te...IMHO, that is why I believe mankind's first temptation to sin, was being approached by the snake with the timeless words, "Hath God said?" It's been all down hill from there for mankind in doubting God's Word.Ken Lengelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808011240895370627noreply@blogger.com