Back to the Cross

Back to the Cross ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​by Chip Brogden

Apart from the Cross, we do not know what Resurrection is. Religion seeks to reform a man; the Cross seeks to crucify him. Religion may fail to bring about the desired result, but the Cross never fails to achieve its end. Mankind will pursue morality, virtue, spirituality, even perform religious works and good deeds, in order to avoid death on a Cross. But there are no wounds, no scars, no evidence of having ever died and been made alive unto God. Either a man has never died, or he has died and been raised again. You cannot fake a resurrection. The Cross is the means by which God reduces us to Christ, that we may be raised to new Life. What cannot be accomplished in a lifetime of self-effort is easily accomplished in God through the Cross. We may take many shortcuts along the way and attempt to escape the inevitable, but the day we cease striving and meekly accept the Cross we find everything is done for us... CLICK BELOW TO READ THE REST: http://www.chipbrogden.com/back-to-the-cross

C.S. LEWIS ON THE INERRANCY OF SCRIPTURE:

C.S. LEWIS ON THE INERRANCY OF SCRIPTURE:

"My own position is not Fundamentalist if Fundamentalism means accepting as a point of faith at the outset the proposition 'Every statement in the Bible is completely true in the literal, historical sense'. That would break down at once on the parables.

All the same common sense and general understanding of literary kinds which would forbid anyone to take the parables as historical statements, carried a very little further, would force us to distinguish between

(1.) Books like Acts or the account of David's reign, which are everywhere dovetailed into a known history, geography, and genealogies,

(2.) Books like Esther, or Jonah or Job which deal with otherwise unknown characters living in unspecified periods, and pretty well proclaim themselves to be sacred fiction.

Such distinctions are not new. Calvin left the historicity of Job an open question and from earlier, St. Jerome said that the whole Mosaic account of creation was done 'aftejus.

Of course, I believe the composition, presentation, and selection for inclusion in the Bible, of all books to have been guided by the Holy Ghost. But I think he meant us to have sacred myth and sacred fiction as well as sacred history."

— C.S. Lewis, in a letter dated 5 October 1955