duminică, 24 februarie 2013

A note for a Christian who says that we will be judged by the Bible

There cannot be one true believer in the New Revelation, who would not receive the words of Jesus Christ from the Scriptures. But most Christians would probably deny without any scruples the New Revelation. 
What was once said by the Lord is eternally true… So, maybe the most part of the Christians (who are now obviously His people, the new Jews) should consider more His own known words when dealing with the New Revelation:
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” (Matt 13:15) and “And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.”(Matt 12:32)
So, to speak against Jesus Christ and implicitly against Christianity can be forgiven, but to speak against the spirit of love, thus to oppose it, cannot be… For to be against love means already to condemn yourself in your heart, to put yourself willingly outside the universal order of God and ultimately, to fight against your own fundamental life.
But who could deny that in the New Revelation is a teaching of pure  love for God and neighbor? Who could deny its true spirit?… Only one who cannot recognize it, because there is a major lack of pure love in his heart. If such is the case, any argument against the teaching of love can be used, including one pertaining to the Scriptures, which in fact  share the same spirit and find their best validation in the New Revelation.
And, finally, who says first that we will be judged by the Bible? I don’t remember any such mention in the Bible itself. However, there is something, dealing with the words of the Lord, in general: “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” (John 12:48)
Not for a moment willing to consider that their churches hold also the works of their saints and main theologians in high regard as divine accomplishments and that there are at least two teachings in the Scriptures which show that there are be good things outside of them (good, meaning, of course - coming from God): “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” (John 21:25); “Test all things; hold fast to what is right.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Not for a moment fearing that it might really be a word of God, that they so easily reject…
But let’s put it this way… Can ever a teaching of the infinite which is Love and God be finite? Can ever the revelation of the almighty Creator be limited to just one book?
Let both your love and reason be the judge of that.

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