Friday, April 13, 2007
I WILL
I will speak the truth though it may hurt.
I will not cheat or copy.
I will not tell tales.
I will have the humility to admit my mistakes when I am wrong.
MY THOUGHTS
Truth is not a feeling.
Truth is not an idea.
The truth is found in the Bible.
The cults are wrong because they do not have the truth.
That is, they have a false understanding of God the Father, of God the Son, of the Holy Spirit, and the work of Christ on the Cross.
Because they are in error in these things, they are in error concerning the doctrine of salvation.
Sincerity and good works do not bridge the gap of sin between God and man.
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse a person (Heb. 9:22; John 14:6).
Sincerity and good works are merely the reliance upon what is in the individual to merit favor with God.
Sincerity is a form of pride when it is appealed to as a justification for being accepted by God: "But God, look at my heart. See how sincere I was? I deserve to be in heaven."
No.
If sincerity and good works were good enough to satisfy God, then He wouldn't have given us the Bible to correct our sincerely wrong ideas, and He wouldn't have sent His Son to do what our good works cannot.
Truth is what God says is true.
The truth is important not because it is simply true.
It is important because truth is what defines who and what we believe in.
Is Jesus the brother of the devil as in Mormonism?
Is he an angel who became a man?
Or, is He the creator of the universe, second person of the Trinity?
Only one is right.
Faith is vital.
But faith placed in something false is the same as having no faith at all.
Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
That is why it is important to have the true Jesus.
The one of the Bible, not the one of Mormonism, nor the one of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
--Mary HAD a little lamb--
5:11 AM
