Finding Jesus' bones?
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Finding Jesus' bones?
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Cannot agree more! I faced the same difficulty of grasping the exact meaning behind it.
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A metaphor for finding mental enlightenment, I like that thought. I'm still thinking about the core of Jesus' teaching and how we can really know it.
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I think that only way to really know God is to trust that His Word is entirely true from beginning to end. If He is the Creator of everything as He states, then He is surely able to easily keep His Word and the meaning of it intact throughout the ages up to our present day. And the ultimate core of the teachings of Jesus is that He is God Himself and without that the rest of what He said and taught really has no depth or meaning.
As C. S. Lewis put it, there are 3 options:
Jesus is Who He claimed to be (God)
He was a charlatan and a liar (because of that claim)
Or He was insane (also because of that claim)
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ~ Psalms 4:8
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I agree with your statement from an orthodox Christian perspective. Haight indirectly argues that we cannot trust the Bible because it has been corrupted.Delaney35 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 13:25
I think that only way to really know God is to trust that His Word is entirely true from beginning to end. If He is the Creator of everything as He states, then He is surely able to easily keep His Word and the meaning of it intact throughout the ages up to our present day. And the ultimate core of the teachings of Jesus is that He is God Himself and without that the rest of what He said and taught really has no depth or meaning.
As C. S. Lewis put it, there are 3 options:
Jesus is Who He claimed to be (God)
He was a charlatan and a liar (because of that claim)
Or He was insane (also because of that claim)
And as for the C.S. Lewis quote, there are more than 3 options if you believe that not every single word is actually God's actual words. I think Haight would see multiple options here.
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The question is then that if God has allowed His Word to become corrupted, is He completely trustworthy then? He would then be the Author of confusion and just be messing around with us instead of a loving, benevolent Creator Who longs to have a true relationship with us.PGreen wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 13:06I agree with your statement from an orthodox Christian perspective. Haight indirectly argues that we cannot trust the Bible because it has been corrupted.Delaney35 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 13:25
I think that only way to really know God is to trust that His Word is entirely true from beginning to end. If He is the Creator of everything as He states, then He is surely able to easily keep His Word and the meaning of it intact throughout the ages up to our present day. And the ultimate core of the teachings of Jesus is that He is God Himself and without that the rest of what He said and taught really has no depth or meaning.
As C. S. Lewis put it, there are 3 options:
Jesus is Who He claimed to be (God)
He was a charlatan and a liar (because of that claim)
Or He was insane (also because of that claim)
And as for the C.S. Lewis quote, there are more than 3 options if you believe that not every single word is actually God's actual words. I think Haight would see multiple options here.
And if Haight would argue that not every single word was true, then who decides which ones are the truth and which ones are the corruption? It really all comes down to faith in a truly Sovereign God and His omnipotence and inerrancy or in what we as fallible man think instead.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ~ Psalms 4:8
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