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Two-Minute Features | 11 February 2018

People Believe Because They Were Taught To? Part 2 (TMF:820)

Friday, February 09, 2018
Peace to Live By: People Believe Because They Were Taught To? Part 2 (TMF:820) - Daniel Litton
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       Behind the Gospel is definitely both power and righteousness. I saw, in my own life, how God changed me from a person wanting to do everything my way to a person wanting to be pleasing and obedient to him. This not because I have to obey God, but interestingly enough, because I love him and want to obey him. Often times people believe in God because their eyes are opened in a moments time and they accept the truth of the Gospel. Paul noted of Christians: “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us” (2 Corinthians 4:6, 7, ESV). God opens people’s eyes to see the truth behind what he is telling them. Now, some people see the truth, but then they quickly forget it or chose not to believe it because they are afraid that following Jesus will affect their life experience.

People Believe Because They Were Taught To? Part 1 (TMF:819)

Thursday, February 08, 2018
Peace to Live By: People Believe Because They Were Taught To? Part 1 (TMF:819) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention five: People just believe in Christianity because they were brought up to believe it. It is what their society has taught them. This argument may be true for some people. But really, a lot of people believe in Christianity because that’s what they have chosen in their lives to believe. It’s what I chose to believe when I was a junior in high school. Personally, I don’t just believe in Christianity because I went to church when I was young. I believe in Christianity because in view of all the options available to us, I believe it makes the most logical sense and it definitely has power behind it. The Apostle Paul noted in Romans 1:16, 17: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith” (ESV).

I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 3 (TMF:818)

Wednesday, February 07, 2018
Peace to Live By: I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 3 (TMF:818) - Daniel Litton
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       Rules can be good, right? You should believe that rules can be good. No one would argue that people driving on the road shouldn’t stop at a red traffic light. If you don’t stop at the red light, you run the danger of running into someone, right? The light turns red for a reason. There has to be rules in order for their to be order in society. And no one argues that these rules are bad, at least, most of them. And most of us support them. So, if we are willing to support and obey simple rules like stopping at a red light on the roadway, then why aren’t people willing to obey rules God has outlined in the Bible? God put the rules in the Bible for the good of humans, not to harm them or to be a killjoy. As a matter of fact, God likes it when we are happy and enjoying life. But in order to really enjoy life, one has to, or should follow certain rules. These rules bring truly fulfilling life. And through Christ, God gives people a way to choose to obey what he says is good, right, and true.

I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 2 (TMF:817)

Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Peace to Live By: I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 2 (TMF:817) - Daniel Litton
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       But we cannot derive conclusions about how we should behave as humans just by looking at nature. Just believing in God independent of his Word allows a person to create whatever beliefs he or she wants to about living, and not really follow the true God. It puts the individual in control, rather than putting God in control through his inspired Word. Just as the Apostle Paul told people in Athens: “What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth… he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him” (Acts 17:23, 24, 26, 27, ESV). Rules can be good, right? You should believe that rules can be good. No one would argue that people driving on the road shouldn’t stop at a red traffic light.

I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 1 (TMF:816)

Monday, February 05, 2018
Peace to Live By: I Can Believe in God Without His Word? Part 1 (TMF:816) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention four: “You don’t need Christianity to believe in God. I can just believe in him independent of an inspired Word from God.” People have the ability to choose to be deists, to believe that a god just created the world and then left it alone to see what might happen with it. The problem with this kind of thinking is, how does a person define God then? If we don’t have a word from God, then how do we know anything about him? How do we know what is good, right, and true? We could just look at nature, I guess, and observe from nature that which can be seen from the eyes. But we cannot derive conclusions about how we should behave as humans just by looking at nature. Just believing in God independent of his Word allows a person to create whatever beliefs he or she wants to about living, and not really follow the true God. It puts the individual in control, rather than putting God in control through his inspired Word.