Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
It means that I can invent all kinds of things on my own.
I can pull tons of ideas out of a hat and claim that each is "truth"
But only the ideas of mine that are in agreement with the Bible are actually true....
Therefore if Im asked a question or challenged on a teaching, my answer has to be centered around the simple text of the Bible.
This is the example we see when Jesus was challenged in the wilderness and always answered with scripture.
So what the Bible tells us is the truth...even if it is not worded in a way that we would have liked.
For example, we dont really know anything about how Jesus looked.
He is my Lord and my God, yet the bible does not tell us anything about his looks.....
So while I worship the Lord truly, I cant be asked to discribe him from the text alone, because I only have the text to use in my answer, and the text in many, many places does not seem all that interested in the silly questions men have asked over the last 2000 years
God is Spirit, and when i die my body is put into the ground and my spirit goes to the Lord who gave it.....
But dont ask me the question "What does your spirit look like?" because i cant answer that from the Text....