We seem to be living in times of great uncertainty, of witchcraft and doubt caste on all authority. People now listen to no one save those that tickle their itching ears, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” (2 Timothy 4:3). To claim there are absolutes, that God abhors anything is grounds for being labeled a bigot.
Our world is spiraling into chaos, as people try to throw off definitions that people have accepted for eons, oh but this new thinking is so much more ‘enlightened’! They say they can reinvent the wheel and call not a wheel. Sigh. The hubris that has taken hold as each person calls someone in whom they disagree ‘fake’ and other names. How
Factitious mankind has become, The Church especially which splits asunder over each individual who now has the ‘orthodoxy’ and the right thinking. How long till community is completely eradicated as each person becomes an expert that will not yield to another on any ground, dying on every hill.
Even the Bible is no longer solace, as saints argue over Alexandrian, Textus Receptus, Masoretic, and Septuagint, and other sources of the Testaments. The Scriptures that use to unite us, now saints “bite and devour one another” (Galatians 5:15) over, when often the disputed word in a sentence really makes no difference in the grand scheme of things.
We are so happy to be solitary islands of wisdom! Knowing better than all the islands around us, all 6 Billion plus people.
Will anyone be able to teach anymore? When each person decrying even the most exhaustive , reliable, and authoritative of sources; Pulling out their hidden site, with obscure writer or video maker who knows all!
Trust is on a burning pyre, as everyone questions even things that are undisputed. Old arguments return as people try to be ‘sages’ claiming revelation and supreme rightness. Rather than schisms of churches, it has turned to individuals, with each person in a congregation now their own church of one, who knows the ‘truth’
Funny, that is not how Church was and is to be, “All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.” (Acts 2:42). How can we even come together to celebrate the Communion and unite in faith if we consider each other heretics, and pseudomites because of our special knowledge and sources that we accumulate to stoke our own egos as the cost of loving one another.
We certainly should test all teaching with Scripture and The Holy Spirit (). But the dissenters, the factionites, and those who have their cult of ‘real’ news and data are trying to even caste doubt on the God Breathed oracles of Scripture. God condemn them! For they are a Synagogue of Satan! Who is all about dividing people and puffing up conceit in men.
We must resist! We must hold fast to The Scriptures, trust in The Holy Trinity, and not be so closed minded we don’t listen to truth and expertise when it is spoken. Yes test all with Scripture and Spirit, but do not harden your hearts, and tear down authority to make yourself an authority. Amen.
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