The Author of Truth

In my earlier post I said I’m not an authority over anyone, I meant that, and I am not. And I truly don’t want to offend anyone. Scripture says, “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city…” Proberbs 18:19. But, if someone is offended because of the truth I am sorry, but I can’t help that.

Not being an authority over anyone else and not wanting to offend anyone doesn’t mean I can’t see errors, falsehoods, and contradictions. In an area where truth is vital to our ability to freely exist, to overlook the error and not insist on truth is perhaps worse than the original error. For without truth we are in bondage to lies. It doesn’t matter what the lie is, where the lie is put forth, nor by whom, we must fight to keep the truth visible.

With that said, there have been several comments recently, that do contain serious error and I’m going to take it one item at a time. Please bear with me as you can see from the dates of past posts, I’m not the quickest on the draw here.

Before I get into it I want to irrefutably state that I am also not an authority on truth per se. I do NOT advocate a “truth according to The Wilder Place”, nor according to any other human being. I do not own truth, nor do I generate it. I don’t make it up, nor do I insist that my understanding is the “only” truth or truth at all for that matter. The truths I’m talking about don’t come from man at all… they come from God.

Romans 3:12 says, “… There is none who does good, there is not even one.” Not I, not you, not my Pastor, not your Pastor….No one! So if none of us “do” good, one reason is that we can’t in and of ourselves know good. And that my friends is exactly where I’m going with this. We (neither you nor I) can on our own know (understand, comprehend) that which is good. In fact, the previous verse in Romans 3:11 says, “There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God.” There you have it… from God’s own mouth! We cannot understand.

So… where does that leave us in our quest for truth… we cannot interpret Scripture on our own, as men and women – we can’t get together as a group nor adopt the truth of another human being – we must realize that God, if He exists, and if He is omniscient (and He is both) then He knows exactly how to say what He means and means what He says.

We err greatly when we try to make Scripture say what we want it to say and in any manner make up our own interpretations. There are lots of good books (and some information on the Web) concerning a sound hermeneutic.

FYI: Hermeneutics is a philosophical technique concerned with the interpretation and understanding of texts. It may be described as the theory of the interpretation and understanding of a text on the basis of the text itself. (From the Wikipedia)

In fact on this issue Scripture also says, Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.”

If your salvation depends upon you understanding Scripture correctly then why trust to anything other than what God actually says?

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