In God's Holy Scripture humanity has a book that teaches, not measurable TRUTH, but TRUTH without measure. Truth upon truth in every fact it surfaces. Through every perspective it views us. In every principle it establishes. Through every discovery it provides us. Absolute truth as pure in origin as useful in everyday life. It opens spiritual wonders to which only the human spirit forgiven by Christ's grace, and maturing in Christ-likeness, can aspire to study in depth, without hope of mastering. But in which every effort to learn MORE catapults our spirits!
Which is why Christians never bother to challenge the skeptics, secularists and other assorted godless to express in their lives better examples of Christ than believers often demonstrate. Ponder I Corinthians 2:14: "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." Indeed, the fullest understanding of the spiritual life comes only to those experiencing burial in water that washes our sins away and quickens us mentally and spiritually. This suggests that faith-only people rob themselves of tremendous spiritual benefits by dismissing the cleansing nature of immersion. This writer invites anyone with questions about it to correspond with him. The lack of Spirit-provided enlightenment explains why unbelievers cheer the mission of Christians—compassion, benevolence, hospitals, children's homes, et al—but jeer the message of Christians—Jesus Christ as God-Incarnate reconciling sinners to God through his sacrifice. Though...THOUGH...the mission of Christians originates in Christ's message. Conversion to Christ unleashes the Christ-centered spiritual power that makes Biblical—make that Protestant—Christianity SO people-friendly wherever it has gone. Philanthropists fund buildings that meet physical, mental and emotional needs. Only Christians, inspired by the Holy Spirit, teach Christ's sacrifice for sin as the starting point in human renewal; it alone brings all manner of benefits the secularized mind considers the sine qua non of human existence. End Part V Next, in the finale, lessons Christians must learn and defend.
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