wisdomfish
Wisdom Fish
All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts – to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer. And they are very terrifying facts. I wish it was possible to say something more agreeable. But I must say what I think is true. Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not find either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. C.S. Lewis
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Other religions are not truth and lead only to eternal damnation. Islam is a damning system. Buddhism is a damning system. Hinduism is a damning system. Simply not believing the gospel is itself enough to damn a person.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 37, 38
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If a gospel messenger got it wrong and thus led people astray about the most important news in human history, the Apostle Paul thought that preacher should suffer the same consequences that their error wrought on others. Since getting the gospel of Jesus right is ultimately a matter of heaven or hell for those who hear it, preaching the gospel with truth and accuracy ought to be a matter of heaven or hell for those who preach it.
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People who preach a different gospel aren’t Christians because their gospel has no means by which to remove the curse caused by sin. Jesus is the only Savior of sinners. Salvation from curse unto blessing is found in no one else. There’s no other name under heaven by which people can be saved. Thus, people who change the gospel to something contrary to it, remain cursed.
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Paul thought people who preach a false gospel should be considered as still under the curse of sin. In other words, by preaching a different good news they proved that they were not Christians. True Christians preach the gospel delivered once for all from Jesus to the church through the Apostles.
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The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first. When we take the time to investigate the text and look to interpret it carefully, we can bring clarity to difficult passages.
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The gospel confronts man and exposes him for what he really is. It ignores the disappointment that he feels. It offers him no relief from the struggles of being human. Rather it goes to the profound and eternal issue of the fact that he is damned and desperately needs to be rescued.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The message of the cross is not about felt needs. It is not about Jesus loving you so much He wants to make you happy. It is about rescuing you from damnation, because that is the sentence that rests upon the head of every human being.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The cross says that God requires death for sin, while it proclaims to us the glory of substitution. It rescues the perishing.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The gospel collides with our emotions; it collides with our minds, it collides with our relationships. It smashes into our sensibilities, our rational thinking, and our tolerances.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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It's the singularity of the gospel, on top of everything else, that bothers people.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 32
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But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we [originally] preached to you, let him be condemned to destruction! As we have said before, so I now say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel different from that which you received [from us], let him be condemned to destruction! ~ Galatians 1:8-9
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The wise men are shamed, They are dismayed and caught. Behold, they have [manipulated and] rejected the [truth in the] word of the Lord, And what kind of wisdom and insight do they have?
Jeremiah 8:9
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Whether it's Athens or Rome, whether it's Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or Princeton, or whatever else, all the collected wisdom that is outside the Scripture adds up to nothing but foolishness.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 31
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But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters]. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:14
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They are all foolish
At the time of Paul, we can trace at least fifty different philosophies rattling around in the Roman and Greek world. And the gospel came along and said,
“None of it matters. We’ll destroy it all. Take all the wisdom of the wise, get the best, get the elite, the most educated, the most capable, the smartest, the most clever, the best at rhetoric, oratory, logic; get all the wise, all the scribes, the legal experts, the great debaters, and they’re all going to be designated fools.”
The gospel says they are all foolish.
~ John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 30
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Justin's first apology in A.D. 152 summarized the Gentile view: "They proclaim our madness to consist in this, that we give to a crucified man a place equal to the unchangeable eternal God.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 28
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The Greeks wanted wisdom, and the Jews wanted a sign. God gave them exactly the opposite. The Jews received a skandalon, a crucified Messiah-scandalous, blasphemous, bizarre, offensive, unbelievable. And for the Greeks who were looking for esoteric knowledge, something high and noble and lofty, all this nonsense about the eternal Creator God of the universe being crucified was idiotic.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 26
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