Today's Verse - Hebrews 2:1 (NIV): Warning to Pay Attention
We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
I believe that Paul is asking us to play close attention to the truth that God has given us in the revelation of himself, as transmitted to us in scripture. We must not, then, allow ourselves to drift away from the truth, but must hold on to it.
Today's Comments: Pay attention to the truth, hold onto it, and resist the temptation to drift away from it. This is the lesson that Paul teaches and the lesson that the mainstream churches have failed to understand. Their relational, rational, existential and cultural focus upon the interpretation of scripture has pulled them away from the truth of the Gospel. They have denied the sinful nature of man; they have operated under the assumption that because God created man, man's sexuality, whatever it be, has become a part of that creation; and they are operating under the assumption that God must obey man's concept of rationality, thereby suggesting that maybe even God, as he has revealed himself in scripture, might not be clear enough without being subject to literary criticism and interpretation. Finally, there is no truth, as many mainstream churches see it. Truth is relative and depends upon cultural interpretations. In summary, many of our churches have failed to listen to Paul's warning to pay close attention and hold onto the truth. Our consequence is that in the relative truth of human kind, we may be losing the absolute truth of God.
We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
I believe that Paul is asking us to play close attention to the truth that God has given us in the revelation of himself, as transmitted to us in scripture. We must not, then, allow ourselves to drift away from the truth, but must hold on to it.
Today's Comments: Pay attention to the truth, hold onto it, and resist the temptation to drift away from it. This is the lesson that Paul teaches and the lesson that the mainstream churches have failed to understand. Their relational, rational, existential and cultural focus upon the interpretation of scripture has pulled them away from the truth of the Gospel. They have denied the sinful nature of man; they have operated under the assumption that because God created man, man's sexuality, whatever it be, has become a part of that creation; and they are operating under the assumption that God must obey man's concept of rationality, thereby suggesting that maybe even God, as he has revealed himself in scripture, might not be clear enough without being subject to literary criticism and interpretation. Finally, there is no truth, as many mainstream churches see it. Truth is relative and depends upon cultural interpretations. In summary, many of our churches have failed to listen to Paul's warning to pay close attention and hold onto the truth. Our consequence is that in the relative truth of human kind, we may be losing the absolute truth of God.
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