Without due vigilance to obey the command to rightly handle God’s truth, it’s easy to allow our own thinking, our emotions, or the ethos of our cultural moment to shape our interpretation of Scripture. That’s one reason why my father always taught me to start with God’s Word—when we read, study, and apply God’s Word to our lives and recognize that it is our authority, it will keep us from error.
And when you don’t do that—when you allow yourself to be the authority—you can fall into more than accidental error: you can dive into downright heresy! This was highlighted recently in two stories I saw of church leaders who don’t even pretend to care about what the Bible teaches.
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Here’s the first example I saw:
A United Church of Christ “minister” in LA (who refers to her sermon as “heretical”, so at least she admits it!) preached:
Well, do I think that [the resurrection] could have happened and did happen? I believe so . . . I feel it probably did.
But if I’m to be scientific or realistic I don’t know. And I say that because there’s no “proof.”
Did it really happen? . . . Did Jesus really raise from the dead? I don’t know.
If Jesus didn’t physically raise from the dead and ascend, it doesn’t change a thing about my love of God and Christ and Christianity . . . because I truly believe in my heart of hearts that my faith . . . is a resurrection faith.
Now, it should be obvious to any Christian why her hesitation to affirm the resurrection of Christ beyond a “I feel it probably did” is a problem—our very salvation depends on us affirming that we believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead! […]
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