Timeline for How can we be sure our specific Christian confession is true, when every other Christian group claims that it's not?
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| Sep 27, 2019 at 17:10 | comment | added | FreeMan | I signed up here just to give you an up vote on this. If a person or a church is telling you something about God, Jesus, salvation or anything else, go read your Bible (one or more translations) to ensure what they're saying lines up with the Scripture. If it doesn't, it's not truth. If they're making a claim, ask them to back it with Scripture. If they can't find it in Scripture, then it's a claim of man, not of God. It's just that simple. There may be some areas of interpretation in what a verse says, but study it long enough and God will reveal the truth in it to you. | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 15:43 | comment | added | Andrew | @PeterA.Schneider Yes, but there is one truth and only one truth. 2 + 2 only has one answer. Likewise with all things. A billion people could all disagree on something, but there is truth and then there are a bunch of lies, ways to distort or corrupt the truth or get it wrong entirely. That people come to different conclusions does not in any way detract from the Bible having one proper interpretation, it only means that it's more difficult. This is why I say that you cannot trust other people. You must determine the truth for yourself, and be wholly objective and earnest about it. | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 15:39 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | I like the approach of reading yourself a lot. I am doubtful though whether there can be found "one truth and only one truth". The Bible is (also) a historical text and must be read as such. Things can only be understood in context, translation problems come into play ("virgin"?!) and advice must be "ported" (in a software sense ;-) ) to the operating system of the 21st century. There is not only room but necessity for interpretation which will arrive at different results for different people. (It's similar to the problem of applying the American constitution to today's problems.) | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 15:31 | comment | added | Andrew | And of course, if there's anything specific you want to know, I would happy to answer it, provide scriptural references, or point you in the right direction. | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 15:28 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |