He was a Man but He was also God! Reason apart from revelation will lead you astray. The Bible tells us about many miracles which God accomplished by His power and for His all-wise purposes. For example, it does not make sense that a man Peter could walk on the water. Everyone knows that people cannot and do not walk on water. Also it does not make sense that a crowd of people not counting women and children could be fed from just five loaves and two fish.
This is unreasonable. It could not happen. It is physically impossible. Unbelieving men using their reason try to explain away the miracles in a way that will satisfy their minds.
Here are examples of a couple of foolish explanations:. Instead He was actually walking on a sandbar. When Peter got out of the boat, he too stepped onto the sandbar. But after a few steps he walked off the sandbar into the deeper water. The Lord had to reach out and pull him back up. It is impossible because my mind just cannot see how this could happen. This is what really must have happened: The crowd was very selfish. They all had their lunches hidden away under their tunics.
When they saw the young lad share his lunch with the Lord then they all felt ashamed that they had been so selfish and they began pulling out their lunches. Thus there was plenty of food for everyone and even much food that was left over. What do you think of these explanations? Do they make sense? Are they reasonable? Do you see any problems with them? It is much better just to believe what God says and take Him at His Word! What is it that governs your life? The religion of man is often very dead and lifeless.
People gather in a church building and they follow a dead ritual. They go through the motions without any meaning. They stand up and sit down and light candles and repeat phrases, but none of it has anything to do with reality and life. The reason for the deadness is that there is no real and right relationship with the God of life. Many people throughout the years of church history have recognized the deadness and have cried out for something more.
They got tired of sitting in the middle of a dead and impersonal church building and going through the weekly ritual. They wanted a religious experience that would be real and exciting and meaningful and personal. They wanted something that they could touch or feel or sense. A fundamentalist is a person who stands firmly upon the fundamentals. During the 20th century there has been a great battle raging between those men and churches who believe the Bible and those men and churches who do not.
Modernism and Liberalism are two names which basically describe the same thing. Both of these movements deny and disbelieve the Word of God. This is illustrated on the following page:. Liberalism is just another name for modernism. The modernist and the liberal are really one and the same:. Are there some things that never change? Does the Lord Jesus Christ ever change Hebrews ? Do the thoughts, opinions, ideas and philosophies of men ever change?
How solid a foundation does the liberal stands upon? Where are you standing? On what are you standing? How solid is your foundation? How firmly are you standing on this foundation? In these lessons on church history we have seen some of the many problems that arise when men refuse to stand on the solid foundation. May we not repeat the mistakes of the past. May the God of truth and the truth of God be our sure and safe and solid foundation now and forevermore!
The Difference Between. Liberalism Modernism. It is one of the principal and essential duties of the intellectuals of this country to wage a continuous war against these artificial, deceitful, narrow and foolish beliefs and to free people from the strangle hold of such beliefs. Revivalism has made the Indian intellectual and the Indian bourgeoisie — great hypocrites. They will talk of spiritual things and indulge in things most material. From them have emerged many sanctimonious humbugs masquerading as spiritual leaders.
There are some legendary tales of the philandering of a youthful cowherd and the delicious abandon of the milkmaids. Cattle population increase, Nothing connected to Hindutva.
Recently the provisional results of the 20th Livestock Census have been released. The Hindutva outfits chest thumb the female cattle population increase by 18 per cent is the result of cow protection propaganda.
The Hindutva outfits advocate for the rearing of indigenous white cattle and not the foreign breed or cross bred animals. Rashtriya Gokul Mission aims to develop indigenous breeds of cattle. But the farmers of the land prefer to rear cross bred milch animals since they yield more quantity of milk comparatively. In , the population of cross bred milch animals was But the indigenous breed milch cattle registered an increase of only 0.
The population increase in cattle population is strongly influenced by the economics rather than Hindutva. Besides, the data of stray cattle population, whose maintenance is expensive and not profitable, are not available in the provisional result of Livestock Census. Nothing to glorify! Tags: Inauguration.
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