Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Christ Above All in Hebrew
Although the book of Hebrew remains unknown, it is appropriate teaching for our time where our faith needs to be larger and stronger in view of new heretical attacks such as the Jesus Seminar towards the historicity of Jesus. The letter to the Hebrews; whom some of them had abandoned their faith because they no longer recognised Christ deity and equality with God, begins in 1: 1-3 by asserting the greatest single fact of the Christian revelation; God has spoken to man through his word in the bible and through his son, Jesus, In Christ God has closed the greatest communication gap of all time, that which exists between a holy God and sinful mankind. According to Raymond Brown in his book "Christ Above All" Jesus is God's prophetic voice, God's Son, God's appointed heir, God's creative agent, God's personifed glory, God's perfect revelation, God;s cosmic sustainer and God unique sacrifice.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Christ Above All
With false teaching coming up in the last days as with the Da Vinci Codes and Jesus Seminar, it is timely that Christians must be strongly grounded in the biblical foundation to fend off false doctrines and beliefs. In short we must know in depth what we believe now; spiritual experience, albeit important, is not suffice as our emotion and feelings could betray our hearts and minds during times of trials and temptations.
I asked my Senior Pastor, "So how do we differentiate between the truth and the false teachings?" He asked me as a ex-Banker. "How does the Bank Teller or Officer detect a fake RM50 note?" Beside using the UV light scanner, the Teller is trained to recognise the features of a genuine note. For example, the feel of the paper, the watermark against the light, the underlying silver strip, among others. which are also meant to help the blind to feel and sense the genuine note.
It means we must really know the truth in order to defend our beliefs and faith when the false teaching come upon us or to help Christians who eventually accepts pluralism to come back to the fold if they have been lead astray.
I asked my Senior Pastor, "So how do we differentiate between the truth and the false teachings?" He asked me as a ex-Banker. "How does the Bank Teller or Officer detect a fake RM50 note?" Beside using the UV light scanner, the Teller is trained to recognise the features of a genuine note. For example, the feel of the paper, the watermark against the light, the underlying silver strip, among others. which are also meant to help the blind to feel and sense the genuine note.
It means we must really know the truth in order to defend our beliefs and faith when the false teaching come upon us or to help Christians who eventually accepts pluralism to come back to the fold if they have been lead astray.
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