Comments on: Worship the Bible and worship yourself http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/ Finding our way back home to simplicity, humility, repentance and personal responsibility through prayer and community. Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-830 Michael Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:58:24 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-830 And then, as you demonstrate, it's also possible to worship your own reason without worshiping the Bible. And then, as you demonstrate, it’s also possible to worship your own reason without worshiping the Bible.

]]> By: Jimmy West http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-829 Jimmy West Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-829 The Christian religion is a religion that is based for the most part, on the assumptions of man. The Bible is full of rumors, legends, assumptions, opinions and incorrect conclusions. There are only three basic wills that God has for each of us. They have only changed once in 6400 years. 1. Trust Him, God, completely. 2. Love each other - live to be a blessing to all. 3. Accept the true son of God, Jesus. That is all there is. I don't need the Bible to search for God's will. I have figured it out. If I live those three wills, that will please God and give him everything he expects and wants from us. The Christian religion is a religion that is based for the most part, on the assumptions of man.

The Bible is full of rumors, legends, assumptions, opinions and incorrect conclusions.

There are only three basic wills that God has for each of us. They have only changed once in 6400 years. 1. Trust Him, God, completely. 2. Love each other – live to be a blessing to all. 3. Accept the true son of God, Jesus.

That is all there is. I don’t need the Bible to search for God’s will. I have figured it out. If I live those three wills, that will please God and give him everything he expects and wants from us.

]]> By: Michael http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-828 Michael Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:55:06 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-828 Mike Brown, you make some good points, in the midst of misunderstanding what I'm saying. Yes, looking at believers who have gone before us can check and balance our interpretation of the Bible. But making their intellect your guide isn't ultimately better than making your own intellect your guide. It's still not God. But if "He is there but He is silent now," (which isn't what <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qQ__zPfCRXkC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=He+is+there+and+He+is+not+silent&source=bl&ots=iqBv2zrPfC&sig=geIW81hv18SRd10vGBHh91BdlUo&hl=en&ei=GwTfSt72IZKZ8Abow81n&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">Francis Schaeffer</a> said but what many Christians believe), you have to cling to something. Mike Brown, you make some good points, in the midst of misunderstanding what I’m saying. Yes, looking at believers who have gone before us can check and balance our interpretation of the Bible. But making their intellect your guide isn’t ultimately better than making your own intellect your guide. It’s still not God. But if “He is there but He is silent now,” (which isn’t what Francis Schaeffer said but what many Christians believe), you have to cling to something.

]]> By: Clark Kent http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-827 Clark Kent Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:10:52 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-827 Why not speak in parables people are meant to take from it what they do , and it said god would open his secrets to those who seek him. Why not speak in parables people are meant to take from it what they do , and it said god would open his secrets to those who seek him.

]]> By: worship http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-826 worship Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:59:51 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-826 I would like to know, now many churches is teaching different things , i want to know what is the true time for worship ? it is in sunday or saturday or night time ? from Babula email:babulanaik@hotmail.com I would like to know, now many churches is teaching different things ,
i want to know what is the true time for worship ?
it is in sunday or saturday or night time ?
from Babula
email:babulanaik@hotmail.com

]]> By: mike brown http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-825 mike brown Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:09:17 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-825 Wow, what an amazing and spiritual thought. I never would have imagined it possible that I was worhiping the Bible instead of the God of the Bible. It's just too bad we can't go back in time and tell this to people like Saint Augustine, or Matin Luther, too bad we didn't tell this to intellectual midgets like Thomas Aquinas, or Polycarp or Justin Myrtar. What your doing with out realizing it (probably because you heard someone say something like this once) is your emphasizing your own feelings and demphasizing the traditional teaching of the Church. (oh yea that collective body of believers through out TIME that have collectively looked at scripture and arrived at consensual teaching ie orthodoxy.) This liberalism your promoting was put forth by a man name Friedrich Schleiermacher in the 17th Century who said Christianity was just a feeling of utter dependance upon God; a couple years later a man named Ludwig Fouerbach pointed out there was no way to tell the difference between a "feeling of utter dependance" and self delusional behavior. If you take the collective teaching of the Church seriously (don't accuse me of worshiping the Church Fathers now) you CAN begin to arrive at consistant and logical understanding of scriptures. When you make these type of statments what it amounts to is placing your own cultural understandings and feelings above the scriptures. Then you turn the obvious on it's head and accuse those who take the scriptures seriously as worshiping false idols. Get a grip on yourself... You want to talk about theology do a little reading. Get over the rhetoric and make accurate statments. Fundamentalist take the scriptures seriously and authoratively they don't worship them; such an accusation is a red herring meant to sway ignorant people. Please send hate mail to stonewall1012@netzero.com Wow, what an amazing and spiritual thought. I never would have imagined it possible that I was worhiping the Bible instead of the God of the Bible. It’s just too bad we can’t go back in time and tell this to people like Saint Augustine, or Matin Luther, too bad we didn’t tell this to intellectual midgets like Thomas Aquinas, or Polycarp or Justin Myrtar.
What your doing with out realizing it (probably because you heard someone say something like this once) is your emphasizing your own feelings and demphasizing the traditional teaching of the Church. (oh yea that collective body of believers through out TIME that have collectively looked at scripture and arrived at consensual teaching ie orthodoxy.) This liberalism your promoting was put forth by a man name Friedrich Schleiermacher in the 17th Century who said Christianity was just a feeling of utter dependance upon God; a couple years later a man named Ludwig Fouerbach pointed out there was no way to tell the difference between a “feeling of utter dependance” and self delusional behavior. If you take the collective teaching of the Church seriously (don’t accuse me of worshiping the Church Fathers now) you CAN begin to arrive at consistant and logical understanding of scriptures.
When you make these type of statments what it amounts to is placing your own cultural understandings and feelings above the scriptures. Then you turn the obvious on it’s head and accuse those who take the scriptures seriously as worshiping false idols. Get a grip on yourself… You want to talk about theology do a little reading. Get over the rhetoric and make accurate statments. Fundamentalist take the scriptures seriously and authoratively they don’t worship them; such an accusation is a red herring meant to sway ignorant people.
Please send hate mail to stonewall1012@netzero.com

]]> By: Shyvonne McCurdy http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-824 Shyvonne McCurdy Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:17:11 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-824 All the Christine's in Church are breaker the GOD law all the city are Birmingham,Alabama all ever where. I go to Church every sunday it is not right. in Bible Study in North Birmingham, Alabala. All the Christine’s in Church are breaker the GOD law all the city are Birmingham,Alabama all
ever where. I go to Church every sunday it is not right. in Bible Study in North Birmingham,
Alabala.

]]> By: Michael http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-823 Michael Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:00:17 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-823 When God and the Bible don’t seem to jive, people should fall on their knees and cry out to God for understanding. The Bible isn't wrong, but it is no shield to defend us from having to face God. When God and the Bible don’t seem to jive, people should fall on their knees and cry out to God for understanding. The Bible isn’t wrong, but it is no shield to defend us from having to face God.

]]> By: Tim http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-822 Tim Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:29:02 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-822 The belief in Bible inerrancy has in my opinion led many people astray. People end up limiting the definition of God to the writings contained in an old book. When God and the Bible don't seem to jive, these people choose the book. In the process they end up worshiping the Bible rather than God. The belief in Bible inerrancy has in my opinion led many people astray. People end up limiting the
definition of God to the writings contained in an old book. When God and the Bible don’t seem to jive, these people choose the book. In the process they end up worshiping the Bible rather than God.

]]> By: Michael http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-and-worship-yourself/#comment-821 Michael Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:58:22 +0000 http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/worship-the-bible-worship-yourself/#comment-821 Thanks Jim. You stated that well. But faith that "removes the biases and the temptations to rationalize" is not simple faith. It is extraordinary faith. That's why most of us prefer to depend on our intellects instead. And instead of assuring us that plain thinking will naturally lead to the truth, Jesus warned that "'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them" (Mark 4:12). Thanks Jim. You stated that well. But faith that “removes the biases and the temptations to rationalize” is not simple faith. It is extraordinary faith. That’s why most of us prefer to depend on our intellects instead. And instead of assuring us that plain thinking will naturally lead to the truth, Jesus warned that “‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them” (Mark 4:12).

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