Americans are faced with questions and issues that never existed before. Stresses are building to levels which are destroying relationships, impacting communities and causing significant emotional reactions. How are Christians to deal with these questions and issues?
The Built on Truth Series offers powerful suggestions to Christians about how to deal with difficult questions and issues in a transparent and consistent way. Others may not like or agree with the outcomes, but they should be able to understand how they were attained.
Some foundational assumptions of Christianity are God exists and is active in the world, God created everything, and the Bible was provided by God so people can know what to believe, how to make choices and how to live according to God’s standards.
A good next step is to find direct and indirect Scriptures pertaining to the subject at hand.
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Wouldn’t you love having a video of Peter when he wrote 2 Peter 3:15-17. Was he smiling because he was poking fun at his friend, Paul. Or, was he grimly thinking of all the Christians who had fallen for false teachers. He wrote. “Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”
It is comforting to know the people of Paul’s time considered some of his writings to be hard to understand. Paul often addressed questions or situations having no simple solution.
Some of the people Paul wrote to were Jews, many of whom had become Christians. They were very familiar with the Old Testament and God. The others were Gentiles, or non-Jews, many of whom had little knowledge of the Old Testament and God. Many modern people are in the same position of having little knowledge of the Bible or God.
