"Go," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road. (Mark 10:52)
Through yesterday meditation, I told that the doctrine of faith omnipotence crashes on a reality and doesn’t harmony with the central point of the Bible. I would like to replenish these two matters.
Christian faith should firmly stand on a reality. As we often see around, it is wrong to insist faith as a certain incident of the other world that isn’t related to a reality. In this actual world we are living we cannot heal the handicap of sight by faith or prayer. Do not ask me the possibility of such miracle. Such things even can be happened without prayer and faith. If such miracles can be happened whenever we pray this world may fall into chaos in a moment. Christian faith should respect the reality of the world as it is that God created.
Some people may think strangely the saying, “The doctrine of faith omnipotence doesn’t harmony with the central point of the Bible.” Beside this doctrine, according to “Your faith has healed you” we may think faith is clearly the foundation of salvation. I also agree with this. If we don’t have faith how can we experience spiritual power? It is very clear that we are justified by faith and undergoing the way of sanctification by faith. At this point, it is not going too far to say that Christian faith is thoroughly connected to faith, its beginning, processing and the end.
The point here I would like to emphasize is not faith based on the relationship between faith and salivation but the fact to focus on salvation. Faith is human attitude but salvation is God’s gift. Though the attitude man should take before God is important but still it is relative. God’s salvation sovereignty only is absolute. There is the hegemony of salvation history.
Through yesterday meditation, I told that the doctrine of faith omnipotence crashes on a reality and doesn’t harmony with the central point of the Bible. I would like to replenish these two matters.
Christian faith should firmly stand on a reality. As we often see around, it is wrong to insist faith as a certain incident of the other world that isn’t related to a reality. In this actual world we are living we cannot heal the handicap of sight by faith or prayer. Do not ask me the possibility of such miracle. Such things even can be happened without prayer and faith. If such miracles can be happened whenever we pray this world may fall into chaos in a moment. Christian faith should respect the reality of the world as it is that God created.
Some people may think strangely the saying, “The doctrine of faith omnipotence doesn’t harmony with the central point of the Bible.” Beside this doctrine, according to “Your faith has healed you” we may think faith is clearly the foundation of salvation. I also agree with this. If we don’t have faith how can we experience spiritual power? It is very clear that we are justified by faith and undergoing the way of sanctification by faith. At this point, it is not going too far to say that Christian faith is thoroughly connected to faith, its beginning, processing and the end.
The point here I would like to emphasize is not faith based on the relationship between faith and salivation but the fact to focus on salvation. Faith is human attitude but salvation is God’s gift. Though the attitude man should take before God is important but still it is relative. God’s salvation sovereignty only is absolute. There is the hegemony of salvation history.
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