Only two worldviews
| Posted On: 08/29/09 06:37:52 AM |
Age 63, MO |
It is always good to know the enemy, but perhaps trying to know all the ways the enemy can attack can be confusing. We can know for certain, however, that we are either in Christ or in Adam. There is no third option. I contend that those who were mentioned in this article who were "born again" and then lost that status, were never truly born again to begin with. George Cancilla
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KNOWLEDGE COULD NOT SAVE DANIEL
| Posted On: 08/27/09 07:32:57 AM |
Age 65, OH |
David, thanks for the article. I would disagree with some points of it: Islam does NOT accept Jesus as Messiah. While the Koran does say that Jesus is A prophet. Jesus was NOT a prophet but THE prophet. A person can claim to accept Jesus as Messiah but not even understand what The Messiah means. The Messiah is The Title given by God to the reality that God Himself would become The Man and save humanity from their sins by dying on the cross, and then resurrect Himself from the dead. Jesus is The Son of God as far as His human body is concerned, but as to His person He is God Almighty or The Everlasting Father as Isaiah writes in Isaiah 9:6. Jehovah God tells us in Isaiah 43 that there is no other Savior except for Himself. There was no god formed before Him or there will be no god after Him. He is the One and Only God. Islam does not accept Jesus as The One and Only God so does not accept Him as The Messiah, for The Messiah is The One and Only God Almighty. - You say we can all become Daniels by knowledge; Daniel had knowledge and it is good to have knowledge. But knowledge did NOT save Daniel. Tell me how could Daniel KNOW of the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had. Only God and Nebuchadnezzar knew what the dream was. What saved Daniel was the fact that The Holy Spirit of The Lord Jesus simply told Daniel what the dream was. Nebuchadnezzar was very wise and did not ask the astrologers to interpret the dream, but first tell him the dream. Even the astrologers knew no man could do this, 10 The astrologers answered the king, "There is not a man on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer. 11 What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among men." But they were wrong in the fact that God does live among men as God Himself would prove in Daniel. God told Daniel the dream, as Daniel himself says, 23 I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king." Even the King himself then knew that Daniel knew the One and Only true God, 46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. 47 The king said to Daniel, "Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery." Daniel could have memorized the whole Bible and even if he could see the rest of the Bible that was to come, he could not be saved by all of that knowledge. It was The Author of the Bible who saved Daniel. The pharisees had memorized great portions of the Holy Scriptures and they thought that knowledge would save them. But when The Author appeared to them, Jesus told them this in John 5:39You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me to have life. While it is true that God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, that lack is of knowing Him. - Lou Newton
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I would agree
| Posted On: 08/27/09 07:02:21 AM |
Age 54, AL |
with everything written here,including the idea of Maslow being a humanist.
I think though that he can be taught from a Christian perspective and that his ideas about man fits a Christian perspective reasonably well.
That's what I try to do as a professor of criminal justice when I talk about him. If I'm wrong here please help me.
Thanks.
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