Confession

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Confession

“A confession of our loyalty to the Bible is not enough. The most radical denials of biblical truth frequently coexist with a professed regard for the authority and testimony of the Bible. When men use the very words of the Bible to promote heresy, when the Word of truth is perverted to serve error, nothing less than a confession of Faith will serve publicly to draw the lines between truth and error.”
C. H. Spurgeon

The honesty, or lack there of, will reveal the bias of the one doing a study.

Often times I am amazed at the statements emerging from the mouths of people I consider to be well educated. I do believe they are honest in their opinions, but sometimes doubts do creep in based on the statements they make.

In the church today we have men who were, and in some cases continue to be, giants of the faith. History is replete with examples of relationships, sermons, and books by such men. Now for the questions:

If a minister has a friendship that can be described as “close” with another minister who is considered, evidenced through writings, sermons, ect… to be “conservative,” how can the first man not defend the beliefs, in subsequent years, that helped to form the original relationship?

I have yet to find a minister, within the evangelical world I dwell, that would truly disagree with Spurgeon at any point. They might put on airs of disagreement, but when pressed to explain their position they cannot do it in an exhaustive manner, much less a “Reader’s Digest” version. Most of the arguments I encounter are 95% emotional, 3% factual, and 2% logical.

I must confess:
I do not have all, or any large number, of the answers,
and
I would definitely defer to Spurgeon when his answer is in line with scripture and the men of the faith who came before him.

"Nemo solus satis sapit"
"Nobody [alone] is clever enough"