StephenMartyr
Puritan Board Freshman
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this thread but it seemed the closest.
Favorite quotes you like, something you just recently read and want to share!
Here's one I recently read from a friend who posted it somewhere else:
From John MacArthur:
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.”
Hebrews 1:1-2
“And, you see, the marvelous senses of man, as marvelous as they are, are incapable of reaching beyond the natural world. And if we’re ever going to know anything about God, God must speak. Look at it verse 1. “God,” the middle of the verse, “spoke.” Right there. We would never know God if He didn’t speak. Now, I’ve always illustrated it very simply. You can’t crawl out of your natural box and discover God. You can’t do it. You and I live in a natural box. Just imagine a little box. And you and I run around in this little natural box and it’s all time-space existence.
And outside of our natural box is the supernatural, and somewhere down inside of us, we know it’s out there, but we really don’t know anything about it, you see. So people come along and say, “We must discover the supernatural. Let’s start a religion.” And so they all run over to the edge of the box and get their chisels and start poking a hole in the edge of the box, figuring they can poke a hole, crawl out, and find God. He’ll be sitting on a cloud with a sign “Hi, I’m God, where have you been?” And that’s what happens.
The Buddhists say you go over here and you do whatever you do and you give Buddha the porridge and you do the thing and you go through all of the things or whatever Buddhism is involved in, you think yourself into nirvana and all of sudden you’ve popped out of the box and discovered God. You’ve transcended from the natural to the supernatural. And Muhammad doesn’t say this, and all the other religions, Zoroastrianism says this, and whether it’s in Japan, Soka Gakkai, or whether it’s this or whatever it is, it’s all the same attempt to escape the natural into the supernatural.
And whether it’s a cult or whatever it is, get out of the box, but the problem is you can’t get out. By the very definition of terms, the natural man cannot escape into the supernatural. It can’t happen. I always say you can’t go into a phone booth and take off your clothes – well, you can do that – but you can’t come out Superman, that’s the point. You cannot transcend your natural existence. So, then, if you are to know anything about God, you will not know it because you escape to God, you will only know it because God speaks to you. Do you get that?
You cannot discover God any more than I expect the bug that I hold in my hand to understand me. He does not understand me. Bugs don’t understand anybody. And bugs probably have terrific philosophies about what we’re like. And they may even worship some of us, but they don’t know. And the problem is we can’t even condescend to their level, but God could. And so God literally became a man and burst into the box to tell us about Himself, and that’s what revelation is all about, isn’t it?
And don’t you see that every religion in the world is a backward situation because every religion in the world is man’s attempt to jump out of the box? There’s only one religion in the world that’s the opposite, and that’s Christianity, which says for the Son of man has come to seek and to save. And when God burst into the box, He did it in a human form, and the name of that human form was Jesus Christ. And that’s the difference between Christianity and every other religion in the world.
That’s why people say, “Well, you can believe anything you want, any religion you want.” No, you can’t. Every religion is man’s attempt to discover God. Christianity is God bursting into man’s world and telling him what He was like. And so man is sensorially incapable of comprehending, identifying, or understanding God at all. God must invade his world, and so God spoke. And God first spoke through the words of the Old Testament. Now, you know that men didn’t write it. They were used as instruments, but God was behind it, the energizing author.”
Favorite quotes you like, something you just recently read and want to share!
Here's one I recently read from a friend who posted it somewhere else:
From John MacArthur:
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.”
Hebrews 1:1-2
“And, you see, the marvelous senses of man, as marvelous as they are, are incapable of reaching beyond the natural world. And if we’re ever going to know anything about God, God must speak. Look at it verse 1. “God,” the middle of the verse, “spoke.” Right there. We would never know God if He didn’t speak. Now, I’ve always illustrated it very simply. You can’t crawl out of your natural box and discover God. You can’t do it. You and I live in a natural box. Just imagine a little box. And you and I run around in this little natural box and it’s all time-space existence.
And outside of our natural box is the supernatural, and somewhere down inside of us, we know it’s out there, but we really don’t know anything about it, you see. So people come along and say, “We must discover the supernatural. Let’s start a religion.” And so they all run over to the edge of the box and get their chisels and start poking a hole in the edge of the box, figuring they can poke a hole, crawl out, and find God. He’ll be sitting on a cloud with a sign “Hi, I’m God, where have you been?” And that’s what happens.
The Buddhists say you go over here and you do whatever you do and you give Buddha the porridge and you do the thing and you go through all of the things or whatever Buddhism is involved in, you think yourself into nirvana and all of sudden you’ve popped out of the box and discovered God. You’ve transcended from the natural to the supernatural. And Muhammad doesn’t say this, and all the other religions, Zoroastrianism says this, and whether it’s in Japan, Soka Gakkai, or whether it’s this or whatever it is, it’s all the same attempt to escape the natural into the supernatural.
And whether it’s a cult or whatever it is, get out of the box, but the problem is you can’t get out. By the very definition of terms, the natural man cannot escape into the supernatural. It can’t happen. I always say you can’t go into a phone booth and take off your clothes – well, you can do that – but you can’t come out Superman, that’s the point. You cannot transcend your natural existence. So, then, if you are to know anything about God, you will not know it because you escape to God, you will only know it because God speaks to you. Do you get that?
You cannot discover God any more than I expect the bug that I hold in my hand to understand me. He does not understand me. Bugs don’t understand anybody. And bugs probably have terrific philosophies about what we’re like. And they may even worship some of us, but they don’t know. And the problem is we can’t even condescend to their level, but God could. And so God literally became a man and burst into the box to tell us about Himself, and that’s what revelation is all about, isn’t it?
And don’t you see that every religion in the world is a backward situation because every religion in the world is man’s attempt to jump out of the box? There’s only one religion in the world that’s the opposite, and that’s Christianity, which says for the Son of man has come to seek and to save. And when God burst into the box, He did it in a human form, and the name of that human form was Jesus Christ. And that’s the difference between Christianity and every other religion in the world.
That’s why people say, “Well, you can believe anything you want, any religion you want.” No, you can’t. Every religion is man’s attempt to discover God. Christianity is God bursting into man’s world and telling him what He was like. And so man is sensorially incapable of comprehending, identifying, or understanding God at all. God must invade his world, and so God spoke. And God first spoke through the words of the Old Testament. Now, you know that men didn’t write it. They were used as instruments, but God was behind it, the energizing author.”
