Over the years I have had a growing interest with WW2 history. It started with a slight addiction to the History Channel and grew from there. Maybe it's because I've known men for whom I have had great respect or maybe it's because when I met my birth mother I found out my grandfather crossed the Normandy beach on D-Day (not in the first waves mind you but later after the beach was taken) It's probably a lot of things...
After watching the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" which is the story of Pvt. Desmond Doss and his heroic deeds in saving the lives of at least 75 wounded soldiers, one at a time, for an entire night, at incredible risk to himself, I decided to do a little research and see just what really happened.
As it turns out, Mel Gibson, the director of the movie, decided to leave out some of the amazing things Pvt. Doss did because he felt that the real story would be too hard for movie audiences to believe. In other words, Pvt. Doss was an even greater hero in reality than he was in the movie.
What the movie depicts is true... All of it... It just leaves parts of the real story out because the director felt it was just too much to be believed.
I think that is an issue we face today in "Christian" circles. I make no bones about the fact that I am a "Sola Scriptura" believer. That means that I believe that the Bible is not only the best source of truth with regard to God and His will for our lives and the world, but the only RELIABLE, AUTHENTIC, AND TRUE source. Not just the parts that I like but even the parts that I don't. (Yes... there are things in Scripture I don't like) The thing is that it doesn't matter if I like them or not. God didn't ask me for my opinion when He was creating the order of things and that means that I have to conform to His way of doing things. I have to accept that the Bible is absolutely true and right as it is in representing God and the telling of His story. The Bible is the total source of knowing why Christ came and what he did for humanity. It is our total source of knowledge of what is true and moral.
In our culture today I'm afraid that many people are finding it more and more convenient and easy to believe some of the truths of Scripture and simply choosing to ignore some of the others. In other words, they are accepting a partial truth rather than the hard reality of what is really taught in the Bible.
I say this in love!!! We can not water down the reality of the Bible and what it teaches on who God is and what His standard is for his followers. If we are to be true "Disciples" then we have to go in "Lock, Stock, and Barrel". God will never compromise when it comes to what is Biblical or Un-Biblical, what is moral or immoral, what is true or false. God's reality is the only reality. Anything else is a very wide road...
John Wheeler
After watching the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" which is the story of Pvt. Desmond Doss and his heroic deeds in saving the lives of at least 75 wounded soldiers, one at a time, for an entire night, at incredible risk to himself, I decided to do a little research and see just what really happened.
As it turns out, Mel Gibson, the director of the movie, decided to leave out some of the amazing things Pvt. Doss did because he felt that the real story would be too hard for movie audiences to believe. In other words, Pvt. Doss was an even greater hero in reality than he was in the movie.
What the movie depicts is true... All of it... It just leaves parts of the real story out because the director felt it was just too much to be believed.
I think that is an issue we face today in "Christian" circles. I make no bones about the fact that I am a "Sola Scriptura" believer. That means that I believe that the Bible is not only the best source of truth with regard to God and His will for our lives and the world, but the only RELIABLE, AUTHENTIC, AND TRUE source. Not just the parts that I like but even the parts that I don't. (Yes... there are things in Scripture I don't like) The thing is that it doesn't matter if I like them or not. God didn't ask me for my opinion when He was creating the order of things and that means that I have to conform to His way of doing things. I have to accept that the Bible is absolutely true and right as it is in representing God and the telling of His story. The Bible is the total source of knowing why Christ came and what he did for humanity. It is our total source of knowledge of what is true and moral.
In our culture today I'm afraid that many people are finding it more and more convenient and easy to believe some of the truths of Scripture and simply choosing to ignore some of the others. In other words, they are accepting a partial truth rather than the hard reality of what is really taught in the Bible.
I say this in love!!! We can not water down the reality of the Bible and what it teaches on who God is and what His standard is for his followers. If we are to be true "Disciples" then we have to go in "Lock, Stock, and Barrel". God will never compromise when it comes to what is Biblical or Un-Biblical, what is moral or immoral, what is true or false. God's reality is the only reality. Anything else is a very wide road...
John Wheeler
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