Jump Start # 4071
Romans 10:17 “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Throwback Thursday: an article written from the past
Not Even Close
Neale Walsch has written a very popular book. It is sold in grocery stories, gas stations, discount stores and bookstores. The title is intriguing. It appears to be a religious book. But actually, this book is nothing more than typical new age theology.
The Book is entitled, Conversations With God. Supposedly, this is what God has spoken to Walsch. It is Walsch’s “conversation with God.”
In one place, Walsch reports God saying:
“Listen to your feelings. Listen to your highest thoughts. Listen to your experience. Whenever any one of these differs from what you’ve been told by your teachers or read in your books, forget the words. Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.”
Did God really say that? No. Does God want us to make our feelings the standard of our life? No. Is the Bible the least “reliable purveyor” of truth? No. Walsch’s book is not even close to what God really said.
What did God say?
· Jer 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not in himself; Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.
· Jn 8:31-32 Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
· Pv 14 :12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
· Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so.
Instead of imagining what God might say, we need to focus upon what God HAS said. God has declared his will for all of us to know (Eph. 5:17). God wants us to follow the Bible – His word.
Roger
February, 1999