The Hellenistic viewpoint is the foundational thinking for the Western world, including the Christians. That makes God something we study, talk about and analyze. It is how we think about everything and everyone. We decide what is true by what we can see, touch, test and understand. We view God more as a thing then as a person. He is something we try to comprehend, not a person to interrelate with.
What this does to our faith as Christians is that we don’t accept His Supernatural power as something for us today. We only see the things of the world, and only give lip service to the supernatural. The spiritual is also around us and just as real as the ground beneath us. As a result of our blindness to the spiritual, we lose sight of the very purpose for which we were designed by God. We no longer seek that close and loving relationship with Him.
Another area where our Hellenistic thinking has led us, is into believing that we can rationally understand what is said in The Scriptures. We read the Bible and use our own knowledge and wisdom to try to decipher what it says. This type of thinking has created many of today’s denominations and cults. People have written books about the secret codes in the Bible which they have deciphered. The mind of man is wondrous and imaginative, but it is also easily deceived.
God is the one who had the Scriptures written, and He is the one who knows what it says. We need to listen to what He has to say to us. We cannot understand God’s heart without being close to Him and listening to the words He speaks to our hearts. We have to accept the truth that God is working today in miraculous ways.
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Note: This post is based on my reading of the book” Viral Jesus by Ross Rohde
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