Author	Thread: As your Biblical Knowledge Widens..................
Admin	As your Biblical Knowledge Widens.................. Posted : 3 Jun, 2011 03:13 PM As your Biblical knowledge widens (John Angell James, "Christian Progress" 1853) There are many who regard an increasing acquaintance with the text of the Bible, as an evidence of growth in grace. Ask yourselves the solemn question. In proportion as you store your minds with biblical texts and biblical ideas--are you all the while seeking to have your heart filled with biblical feelings, and your life with biblical actions? As you grow in acquaintance with the character of God-- do you reverence Him more? As your ideas brighten on the person of Christ--do you love Him more? As you become more acquainted with the perfection and spirituality of God's Word--do you delight in it more? As you see more clearly the evil of sin--do you hate it with a more intense hatred? As your Biblical knowledge widens, do you become . . . more profoundly humble, more tenderly conscientious, more gentle, more spiritual? Unless this is the case, you are in a fatal mistake by supposing that you are making progress in the divine life, merely because you are advancing in biblical knowledge. Post Reply
View Profile History	As your Biblical Knowledge Widens.................. Posted : 3 Jun, 2011 06:34 PM I think this is a point that needs to be made every time you have a Christian, who is studying hard, and maybe reading systematic theology, etc. There is the old joke about a Christian "having more spiritual pride than a first year seminary student." Studying the Bible in depth, and studying theology is intoxicating stuff, and if you do it for the wrong reasons it will go bad on you. You will start to think you are a cut above other Christians because you know things they don't, etc. We have to keep in mind that we should not judge ourselves as Christians by how many books we have read, but rather what goes on in our hearts, and in our prayer life. In Christ, James Post Reply
View Profile History	As your Biblical Knowledge Widens.................. Posted : 3 Jun, 2011 06:56 PM :applause::yay::peace::bouncy: Amen!, James Post Reply
View Profile History	As your Biblical Knowledge Widens.................. Posted : 3 Jun, 2011 08:33 PM Pslm 18:25-26 "To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd." To the Law lover you show youself a legalist, to the ufo groupie you show yourself.to be a alien, to the muslim you show yourself to be a great prophet, to the atheist you show yourself to be a great teacher, and to the reformer you show yourself to be a calvinist. Bible study needs to be Spirit led or one will be led astray. Post Reply