Authority of scripture
Matthew 7:24- 27
Therefore everyone who hears these these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Matthew 7:24-25
Biblical religion says that completely transcends the grasp of human senses; we cannot find him, contain him, or exhaust him. Human reason does not have the capacity by itself to locate and explain God.
We need a revelation from God himself if we ever are to know who God is. Our searching merely produces sterility and illusion.
The initiative must come from God’s own side; the Creator must reveal himself to his creation. If he does reveal himself, we know he is a giving God who discloses himself not only to our hearts but to our intellects as well. This is the reason that Scripture is so crucial to our faith.
The Bible is the record of God’s revelation of himself to humanity. Without it, we have neither religious certainty nor any other security, for if we are not sure about our foundation, then we will wobble on everything else.
Wherever the Scriptures have been seen as the Word of God, there has come into the hearts of many people an assurance that one can not only know what God is like, but also personally know him.
Scripture must be absolutely authoritative for Christians as we begin the third millennium from the time of Christ’s birth. The Bible is the record of God’s personal revelation of himself to us.
This is an excerpt from the book This Day with the Master by Dennis Kinlaw.
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