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 ====== The Bible and Its Reception ... ======
-Saturday, Jan 6, 2018.
+Saturday, Jan 6, 2018. Recently I ran into some remarks someone had made a while ago
+on the Bible, on the stories written down in the New Testament. He called it childish stories.
+Of course, there are many people today who might think the same. The miracles and the parables
+and all the claims and reports of the bible are difficult to understand for so many.
+How to deal with this situation?
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 ** Ideas about the Past ...**
+Of course you could tell people that they do not know what they say. But that is not always
+true. This guy I mentioned first was one of the brightest human minds of the 20th century.
+And I was reading his fantastic remarks about science and at the same time his poor
+treatment of the bible, where I think he just completely missed the points.
+There are even some streams of theology today who think that the whole bible is
+filled with unsubstantiated stories, invented by the early church during its first 100 years
+of existence. They consider theology more a science to study religion than to learn about
+the living God!
+For Christians who live their faith actively and with responsibility it is good to
+take notice of the treatment and reception of the bible in different layers of our society,
+by different people and different schools, different churches and different traditions!
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-** Your Life Today ...**
+** Build some Sound Basis for Faith ...**
+Only when you start to know some of the arguments, you will be able to find a stable standpoint
+of your own. Of course, not every Christian should go into the various oceans or muddy streams
+of theology. Not everyone has to deal with every argument - there is just no need to it for each
+and everyone. But for the church as a whole, there is need for taking objections serious.
+What is a sound basis for your faith? In the end it is just the grace of God through Jesus Christ.
+He is the beginning and the end, he is the one who can hold you. No argument can, no power other
+than himself. We need to make this clear: faith does not come out of reason alone, but from the
+word of God, who talks to us and approaches us. Faith comes from him, his love, his truth, his
+mercy and his presence. It has always been that way!
+But reason is an important part of faith. God is the God of reason, the God who has created this
+world, and who created the human mind, with all what it is!
+Apologetics means to defend why we know what we believe. It
+means to get the sources, origins and wells carefully cleaned and sorted. And that is possible to
+a degree which will astonish you if you follow it up yourself with an open and pure heart!
 (Roland Potthast)
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