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Today's sermon: don't limit God. He's set you free. With his help, you can do anything.
This may be true, but sometimes anxiety pretends to be God's voice. So how do you know which is which?
Where was I?
Well, now I'm on Genesis 26. Again we have the 'she's my sister' story, all over again.
So you think, is there any way this could be true? Is it likely? I gotta say, not looking good for historicity on this one. Three times the wife is called the sister, three times the outcome is negative. Abraham and his son Issac would learn. So then you wonder if it's true when they say these are essential collections of fables. That makes a lot of sense.
But I've always been raised that "literally true" and everything else is treated as heresy. Why? Why does it matter? It's NOT literally true; it can't be. There are different versions of the same story. Genesis 1 and 2, for example. And where does it say everything is literally true? No, don't give me that "all scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching" crap. That's not the same as true.
Then, God tells Issac he'll expand his descendents like Abraham, if Isaac follows him, and Isaac builds an altar and "invokes the name of the Lord." We've seen that before. What does it mean?
This may be true, but sometimes anxiety pretends to be God's voice. So how do you know which is which?
Where was I?
Well, now I'm on Genesis 26. Again we have the 'she's my sister' story, all over again.
So you think, is there any way this could be true? Is it likely? I gotta say, not looking good for historicity on this one. Three times the wife is called the sister, three times the outcome is negative. Abraham and his son Issac would learn. So then you wonder if it's true when they say these are essential collections of fables. That makes a lot of sense.
But I've always been raised that "literally true" and everything else is treated as heresy. Why? Why does it matter? It's NOT literally true; it can't be. There are different versions of the same story. Genesis 1 and 2, for example. And where does it say everything is literally true? No, don't give me that "all scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching" crap. That's not the same as true.
Then, God tells Issac he'll expand his descendents like Abraham, if Isaac follows him, and Isaac builds an altar and "invokes the name of the Lord." We've seen that before. What does it mean?