Jonathan95
Puritan Board Sophomore
How would you encourage new or maybe even long time believers who struggle with hard sayings in Scripture. If we were to look online I'm sure there are many cults and atheistic movements dedicated to flooding their websites with "Contradictions" in the Bible.
If a believer runs into these or something else in their reading that is difficult to understand, it might cause a good bit of anxiety. How have you handled this yourself in the past? How do you encourage a believer that feels like the ground dropped out beneath them?
Sometimes it's hard to sleep when you feel like your beliefs and worldview are being assaulted and you want to look things up and figure it all out but nothing is really clicking for you. I suppose we should just have faith that it all make sense somehow even if we don't really see how but it's disheartening to skip over texts in Scripture because you just don't get it, you know?
And sometimes you read all of these commentaries but the answers all seem cobbled together out of leaps in logic. Is the solution just frequent prayer that the Spirit gives you faith and/or illumines the text for you one day?
If a believer runs into these or something else in their reading that is difficult to understand, it might cause a good bit of anxiety. How have you handled this yourself in the past? How do you encourage a believer that feels like the ground dropped out beneath them?
Sometimes it's hard to sleep when you feel like your beliefs and worldview are being assaulted and you want to look things up and figure it all out but nothing is really clicking for you. I suppose we should just have faith that it all make sense somehow even if we don't really see how but it's disheartening to skip over texts in Scripture because you just don't get it, you know?
And sometimes you read all of these commentaries but the answers all seem cobbled together out of leaps in logic. Is the solution just frequent prayer that the Spirit gives you faith and/or illumines the text for you one day?