Here we discover the
depths of biblical truth, namely that it is not enough to obey the letter of the law but to feel the spirit of the law's intention.
Packageing [methodology] of biblical truth will ALWAYS change — but Bible truths NEVER change.
«The problem with Gentile Christians,» notes church historian Samuele Bacchiocchi, «was not only their lack of familiarity with Scripture, but also their excessive fascination with their Greek philosophical speculations, which conditioned their
understanding of Biblical truths.
But Richard A. Shenk points out in his new book, The Virgin Birth of Christ: The Rich
Meaning of a Biblical Truth, that in Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it.
By focusing on individual conversions apart from traditional church authorities that had, even for Protestants, provided the context for the
communication of biblical truth, the revivals encouraged individuals to appropriate Scripture for their own purposes.
The reason is that without a belief in Yahweh, acceptance that Jesus Christ is the only «way» to a relationship with the Creator, and measuring results in
terms of Biblical truths, there would be little universal help to Christians, Jews, Moslems, atheists, and others at all.
But I think it would be more helpful all round if readers gave him the benefit of the doubt that he is not anti intellectual or anti scripture but making a bona fide encouragement to godliness in life and action based on sufficient
knowledge of biblical truth.
To others this appears as a «liberal»
perversion of biblical truth, for it is contended that according to the Bible only the followers of Christ are sons of God and hence with Christ heirs of salvation.
Having grown up believing the earth is roughly 6,000 years old and that ICR and Answers in Genesis were beacons for the
light of biblical truth, I can't help but draw parallels between the way Harold Camping's organization Family Radio speaks of the present and how Ken Ham's organization Answers in Genesis speaks of the past.
An astronomy expert explains that he draws on the same data as his secular colleagues, but arrives at different conclusions because «I start from the
assumption of biblical truth and they do not.»
She continued: «The challenge with competing worldviews is that there are fragments of similarities to some Christian teachings, and some may recognize and latch on to these ideas, not realising they are
distortions of biblical truths.
The challenge with competing worldviews is that there are fragments of similarities to some Christian teachings, and some may recognize and latch on to these ideas, not realizing they are distortions
of biblical truths.