* Knowing God on the Level *
"Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." (Matthew 22:29)
When the Sadducees, who were the theological, philosophical, and scientific elite of the day, came to Jesus with a trick question in an attempt to discredit Him, He responded with the stinging rebuke in today's verse.
While His response dealt specifically with the fact of resurrection and the nature of the afterlife, His twofold evaluation of self-reliant scholars still fits today, particularly in regard to making speculations.
But what of Christian intellectuals, theistic evolutionists, progressive creationists, or advocates of the framework hypothesis, who claim to know God but yet deny His awesome power in creation?
They reject the clear teaching of Scripture regarding creation, relegating God to the mundane task of overseeing the evolutionary process, reducing His power to something man can accomplish.
Peter aptly describes this attitude when he calls it deliberately forgetful.
"But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water." (2 Peter 3:5)
It has been suggested by some that all human error can be traced to one or both of these categories: not knowing (and/ or believing) the Scriptures, and underestimating the power of God.
Passages of Scripture are from the New International Version Bible (NIV).........................
"Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." (Matthew 22:29)
When the Sadducees, who were the theological, philosophical, and scientific elite of the day, came to Jesus with a trick question in an attempt to discredit Him, He responded with the stinging rebuke in today's verse.
While His response dealt specifically with the fact of resurrection and the nature of the afterlife, His twofold evaluation of self-reliant scholars still fits today, particularly in regard to making speculations.
But what of Christian intellectuals, theistic evolutionists, progressive creationists, or advocates of the framework hypothesis, who claim to know God but yet deny His awesome power in creation?
They reject the clear teaching of Scripture regarding creation, relegating God to the mundane task of overseeing the evolutionary process, reducing His power to something man can accomplish.
Peter aptly describes this attitude when he calls it deliberately forgetful.
"But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water." (2 Peter 3:5)
It has been suggested by some that all human error can be traced to one or both of these categories: not knowing (and/ or believing) the Scriptures, and underestimating the power of God.
Passages of Scripture are from the New International Version Bible (NIV).........................
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