(03-01-2017, 06:27 PM)radind Wrote: Update on worldview survey.
Quote:Survey Finds Just 10 Percent Of Americans Have A Biblical Worldview
http://www.westernjournalism.com/survey-...worldview/
… "A new survey released Monday revealed just 10 percent of Americans truly have a biblical worldview, despite four times that amount believing that they do.
The American Culture and Faith Institute, headed by pollster George Barna, interviewed approximately 6,000 people from the general population and in church leadership in early February.”…
I question for Radind.
Do you believe there is an orthodoxy (right teaching) for Christianity? If so, what is the source of this right teaching?
If you say Scripture, then why is Scripture to be elevated over other writings of men?
If you say because Scripture is the Word of God, then let's cut to the chase and just asset:
Orthodoxy is the Word of God as written by the Hand of God.
Now if you were an orthodox Muslim you would accept the Koran as Orthodoxy since the God worked indirectly, through human agents (God dictated the Koran to Mohammed in dreams, that in waking hours he recited and which followed wrote down) to record his Word as Scripture.
But for Christians, there was no need of indirect means. Jesus of Nazareth is God and literally walked the Earth in the flesh as a living man. Thus, orthodox Christianity would come from the writings of Jesus, that is literally for th Hand of God Himself. You cannot get a higher authority than that.
Yet Christians are quite sure than Jesus did not do that. Now if Jesus intended Christians to have orthodox teachings, he would have written them (He's God after all what He wills is done). The only rational explanation for the fact that Jesus did not write any orthodox Scripture is that God did not intend Christians to have one. That is. He wanted Christians to figure things out for themselves, to grow up in the faith.
Have you encountered this concept before?