7481	Forums / Theology Forum / Why I Believe The Bible Is The Word Of God	on: May 06, 2007, 10:00:36 AM
Thanks Bill, Good post! The Bible is the revelation of God and His will. Because it is Gods word , its language is God breathed, every word of it, and even the accents. This ancient language gives life. And being ancient it must be understood only by an eternal teacher who is from old. Gods always was is the paradigm for His life giving wisdom. He knows as God. He is eternal. We are finite and limited. Our limitations are not only in us being created as being from Adam the first man. Even Adam who had more ability than us, was limited in His knowledge. Being created with a spirit and a body Adam was able to access his full potential. But Adams temptation and fall brought on his new knowledge of sin in sin rather than a knowledge of sin and eternally righteous. So instead of us being able to resist the Devil, we were plunged into bondage and sin. We were cast into a state of spiritual darkness. We cannot see, feel, taste, touch any divine knowledge. We lost our ability to understand divine truth. Even as believers we are still lost without the ability of the Spirits revealing that knowledge to us. When the Trinity reveals any truth, it comes to us by the work of Christ , through the Fathers will, in the Spirit of the Trinity. His breathing is in God revealing to us the essence of His Godness. It comes as the pure revealing of the Trinitarian essence. We must be regenerated , given a new set of senses to understand Gods revelation. It is by Divine decree alone. In the post modern paradigm, we are confronted with 2 generations of determinism. This is the spirit of the age. That determinism spirit is the spirit of depression. In the atmosphere of determinism man is at the center of the universe creating his meta narrative. The ancient divine wisdom is replaced by mans new scientific knowledge and ability. In the warped view of that mindset is the seed-determined self deception. In that new seed to tree growth comes a spirit of death. It is  spiraling down from the normal means through common grace. It is suicide in a relational universe of dark sayings and self determined breaks in communication and purpose. In the destructive paradigm of determinism comes the ultimate deception of breaking with the ancient wisdom and spiraling down into the abyss of an uncontrollable spirit of loneliness and sin.