28 January 2018
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Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 4 (TMF:815)

Friday, February 02, 2018
Peace to Live By: Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 4 (TMF:815) - Daniel Litton
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       We want others to base their beliefs about the world in what the Bible says, on what God says about reality, and not what we are coming up with in our own minds, our own opinions. No, the Christian’s beliefs come from what God says alone. If people are trying to get you to believe in what they have come up with in their minds as absolute truth, then you should not listen to them. Christians should be pointing you to the Bible. The goal of God’s people is to get those who don’t know God yet to deal with Him about the Truth, not with ourselves only. The Apostle Paul noted, “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake” (2 Corinthians 4:5, 6, ESV). The reason that we Christians believe in Christianity is because of what God has shown us to be true through is Word. We have our beliefs based in the words of Scripture.

Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 3 (TMF:814)

Thursday, February 01, 2018
Peace to Live By: Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 3 (TMF:814) - Daniel Litton
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       Some think that just as they can pick whatever they want to eat off of a restaurant menu, for instance, they believe they can just pick and choose what they want to believe about our world. And people think that each person has the ‘right’ to have these individual beliefs. Yes, a person has the ‘ability’ to develop whatever beliefs he or she wishes about religion or our world in general. But that does not mean that these beliefs represent reality, represents the truth. I understand this is a hard teaching, but it’s a teaching that we have to come to terms with as individuals. And it’s not that, we, as Christians, are just trying to force our views or opinions on others, but rather we are trying to get people to go to the same Book where we find the realities of life—the Bible. We want others to base their beliefs about the world in what the Bible says, on what God says about reality, and not what we are coming up with in our own minds, our own opinions. No, the Christian’s beliefs come from what God says alone.

Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 2 (TMF:813)

Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Peace to Live By: Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 2 (TMF:813) - Daniel Litton
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       The very fact that we share the Gospel shows that we believe Christianity is the only real, true way to God. All other ways are false and fictitious. The Apostle Peter filled with the Holy Spirit noted, “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, ESV). There is no other real way to God. This is a truth of the universe, a ‘reality’ truth, a ‘real’ truth. This just isn’t what Christians believe. Look at it this way. Beliefs aren’t like people; people are individually created, crafted in God’s image, and are individually unique. No person is exactly like another person. Beliefs about God and the world are not to be individually created by us, as people, making them and shaping them however we want them. But, you see, that’s the problem.

Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 1 (TMF:812)

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Peace to Live By: Our Beliefs are Just Personal to Ourselves? Part 1 (TMF:812) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention three: “Every belief is confined to the person that professes the belief, and is therefore his or her own personal belief, but does not represent reality.” Again, this simply isn’t true. Under this type of thinking, if I were to die, then what I believe would die with me. That is, outside of my own mind, my beliefs aren’t true. But in reality, whether I am alive or not, Jesus Christ is God of the universe. The fact that Jesus is God is external from my own thinking. It is an absolute, physical truth of the universe. It is as true as the Sun in our solar system is real. It is as true as the earth is real, or as true as trees grow. A Christian has to think this way about things. To say what I believe is just personal to me is to dumb Christianity down and make it equal to all other beliefs in the world. But, of course, we as Christians know that is not true, and we demonstrate this by sharing the Gospel with people.

We Have the 'Right' to Believe What We Want? Part 6 (TMF:811)

Monday, January 29, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Have the 'Right' to Believe What We Want? Part 6 (TMF:811) - Daniel Litton
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       If I were to say that I believe it’s good for people to have ‘gay’ rights within a governmental system, I would in fact be sinning against God and going against the Truth. Now, this doesn’t mean I stop people from practicing what they are going to practice, for God has told us it is his responsibility to judge unbelievers (see 1 Corinthians 5)—that is, to punish them for their incorrect behaviors (though we can and should say their behaviors are immoral and wrong). Just as God allows or permits it, it doesn’t mean either that I agree with their seeming ‘right’ to have gay ‘rights’ or any other immoral rights, like those pertaining to abortion. No, there are no gay rights or abortion rights, regardless of what any society may make people think. If there were, God could not judge people who practice homosexuality or who murder unborn children. People who believe they have these rights are in fact deceived, and God will judge them in the future if they do not accept Jesus. That’s why it’s so important we share the Gospel with people, so that more and more people can be saved.