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The Shield of Faith

Posted in Faith, tagged , on December 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

[T]ake up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. – Ephesians 6:16

God uses our everyday objects to teach us about unseen things.

Paul, imprisoned for his faith,1 saw soldiers quite often. He advised Christians that they, too, have armour for their spiritual battle. We use our faith like a soldier uses his shield.

This scripture tells us two things:

1) The evil one uses “flaming arrows”; his weaponry pierces and burns – a past or present regret, a perceived fault or character flaw, rejection, isolation, gossip.

2) The burn can be extinguished by faith – faith that Jesus is not just the savior but my savior, faith that all my guilt and flaws as real as they may be or have been are covered by his sacrifice, faith that since he did this when I was his enemy how can he do less now that I am his friend.

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” – Romans 5:10

-fritz
1 – Ephesians 6:19

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Mercy and Truth Meet in Christ

Posted in Mercy, Truth, tagged , on November 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. – Psalm 85:10

“Truth” and “Righteousness” don’t naturally lead to “Mercy” and “Peace”.

Truth is, every one of us have done selfish ungodly deeds. Righteousness demands wrongs to be corrected and we don’t have the wherewithal to comply.

We can not bring back the dead, can’t restored ruined reputations, can’t unhurt or put back what we have wasted.

But Christ, Jesus, can and he has. In Christ righteousness and peace “kiss” and make up. He paid for our sin, he can heal the hurt, even take the wrong and work it to every one’s good.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ – Romans 5:1

– fritz

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Why believe in Adam and Eve

Posted in Creation, Faith, tagged , , on September 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” – Psalm 11:2-3

The accuracy of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is important in ways not immediately apparent.

Many churches, especially main line denominations, allow “scholars” to teach the Old Testament (especially Genesis through Deuteronomy) are a later compilation of oral tradition, that the Biblical accounts of creation, flood, and such are actually embellishments of some kernel of truth – not “factual”.

What difference could that belief make? A lot!

If the biblical accounts of creation were embellishments of an uninformed world view then there is no foundation to understand the need for Christ’s death on the cross. If there was no real first man, Adam, no first woman, Eve, then Paul is wrong when he writes in the Bible that Christ’s death counteracts the sin which came into the world through that first man1. What would this say of Christ? Only a crazy person would die when there is no actual need.

And if Genesis through Deuteronomy are only a combination of various oral traditions sewn together later by an unknown person then Jesus was wrong (or deceptive) when he told his followers, “Moses said …, – not a very good foundation for faith, if he was wrong or not trustworthy then, how can he be trustworthy now?

Sometimes the best way to bring down a building is to not attack the building but to destroy its foundation.

– fritz

1 – Romans 5
2 – Mark 7:10

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