To Be Least
"For he who is least among you all--he is the greatest." (Luke 9:48)Saturday, January 31, 2004
Q & A of Biblical Errancy
I came upon accident a biblical errancy group who try to show why the Bible is not the word of God. Anyhow I have taken on the task of answering each of there question that I found on there group "site."
Let's start.
[Question] 1. If you must accept Jesus as your Savior in order to be saved (John 14:6), what about the billions of beings that die as fetuses, infants, and mentally deficient, etc.? For them to accept Jesus would be impossible. So they are condemned to hell because of conditions over which they had no control. Deut. 32:4 says God is just, but where is the justice?
[Answer] Just as Deut. 32:4 says, God is just. Jesus says this in Matthew 18:3, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." So unless we become like little children, we will not enter heaven. So God is indirectly saying here that little children will enter the kingdom of heaven. In Mark 10:40 it also says, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." Here it obviously states that heaven, or the kingdom of God, belongs to the children. Perhaps, they can not mentally accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, yet God says that they already will enter the kingdom of heaven.
[Question] 2. Why are we being punished for Adam's sin? After all, he ate the forbidden fruit, we didn't. It's his problem, not ours, especially in light of Deut. 24:16, which says children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers.
[Answer] We are being "punished" for Adams sin in a sense, however if he had not done it we would have surely done because we all carry the natural tendency to sin. In some cases our own sin brings on consequences such as death.
[Question] 3. God created Adam, so he must have been perfect. How then, could he have sinned? Regardless of how much free will he had, if he chose to sin, he wasn't perfect.
[Answer] In Genesis 1:31 it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day." Notice he did not day that it was "perfect." It was good, to God's satisfaction. So he was not perfect, but without sin until he disobeyed God.
To Be Continued. . .
Let's start.
[Question] 1. If you must accept Jesus as your Savior in order to be saved (John 14:6), what about the billions of beings that die as fetuses, infants, and mentally deficient, etc.? For them to accept Jesus would be impossible. So they are condemned to hell because of conditions over which they had no control. Deut. 32:4 says God is just, but where is the justice?
[Answer] Just as Deut. 32:4 says, God is just. Jesus says this in Matthew 18:3, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." So unless we become like little children, we will not enter heaven. So God is indirectly saying here that little children will enter the kingdom of heaven. In Mark 10:40 it also says, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." Here it obviously states that heaven, or the kingdom of God, belongs to the children. Perhaps, they can not mentally accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, yet God says that they already will enter the kingdom of heaven.
[Question] 2. Why are we being punished for Adam's sin? After all, he ate the forbidden fruit, we didn't. It's his problem, not ours, especially in light of Deut. 24:16, which says children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers.
[Answer] We are being "punished" for Adams sin in a sense, however if he had not done it we would have surely done because we all carry the natural tendency to sin. In some cases our own sin brings on consequences such as death.
[Question] 3. God created Adam, so he must have been perfect. How then, could he have sinned? Regardless of how much free will he had, if he chose to sin, he wasn't perfect.
[Answer] In Genesis 1:31 it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day." Notice he did not day that it was "perfect." It was good, to God's satisfaction. So he was not perfect, but without sin until he disobeyed God.
To Be Continued. . .
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