tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post6964800808526645210..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Why Are We So Easily Shaken?Dr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-2883124373308283222019-10-15T14:16:32.952-04:002019-10-15T14:16:32.952-04:00What we find in Scripture, Q, is that there’s no s...What we find in Scripture, Q, is that there’s no substitute for personal obedience. Family, church, culture … these are groups to which a person may belong for some purposes: but at the Judgment Seat, we all stand individually, each one accountable for his or her own decision to obey (2 Cor. 5:10, Rom. 14:10). We have, to be sure, an advocate with us in Christ. But no other human agency is engaged.<br /><br />As the philosopher John Locke realized, this is a very important fact. It shows that whatever assistance we may get from others, at the end of the day, it’s each of us that is accountable to God. Therefore, a child raised in a Christian family, or a person born into a Christian culture, or even a person who goes to the right church, is in no better position than anyone else in terms this final accounting. He, and we all, will give personal account to God, and He will not be asking us what our family, our culture, our media, our ethos or our church practiced and believed, but rather what it was we believed and did. And this makes the personal nature of this question absolutely pressing. We must each, individually, press on, grow, become mature, and achieve what God has set before us to achieve, not mistake others’ achievements for our own.Immanuel Cannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-27962536552357980962019-10-10T23:23:14.166-04:002019-10-10T23:23:14.166-04:00"Are you a teacher of the truth of God? If no..."Are you a teacher of the truth of God? If not, why not?"<br /><br />There is an assumption in this question which may actually also answer it. Teaching implies two parties, someone willing to teach and someone willing to listen (and perhaps be willing to be taught). I think the problem is that there is (and perhaps has always been) a serious dearth of people willing to be taught about Christianity. Certainly we know that, especially nowadays, that number is steadily increasing. It is generally related to the relative ease of modern live with it's many conveniences and resources in all fields that does not even seem to require the type of introspection necessary for wanting to explore religiosity with its many precepts. In other words - why bother? That results, over time, in a hardening of attitudes where the idea of God is not taken seriously regardless of how and how often such an idea might be suggested. From my observations (friends, relatives) there will then not even be the inclination or even thought of exploring the possibility of divine help even if the situation desperately needs it. This is of course exasperated by observing the many failings of the Christian principles nowadays as gotten from the news media or first and second hand experiences. The greatest chance of being Christian therefore comes through family life where children are raised with Christian principles until adulthood. And that type of family is certainly under attack from all directions <br />Qmannoreply@blogger.com