Sunday, September 24, 2017

The way of a Christian Man

Plato, in his last book of the Republic, speaks of the problems of poetry and painting in that they are far removed from the truth or the way things are. Today, we could say the same in the movie industry. The makers of the movies put together an imitation of what is and often times places in his or her own propaganda or what they want to teach the masses. But, of course, Plato was not a Christian nor was he Jewish. Plato was a greek philosopher and did not believe the Bible. The Christian should rather base his or her way of life on Scripture and not on what some sort of imitation says. What does the Bible say about what God is or what man is or what love is? How do we know what love is but by the Bible alone? Experience is an unfortunate thing. Many professors teach it as the rule of life. They basically deny the Bible alone as the word of God. We do well to read what the Scripture says. Till then, we know not what it means to be a Christian; even if we call ourselves Christians. Jesus made this point talking to the pharisees and other Jews who said they had Abraham as their father. The response of Jesus cut down their hypocrisy.

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