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\"\"Looking for a Word<\/h4>\n

“During the Protestant Reformation, people were looking for a word from God. The Reformers, including individuals like Martin Luther and John Calvin, proclaimed that there is but one place to find special revelation – the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. They asserted the doctrine of Sola Scriptura: the only source of special revelation for the church today is the Bible; thus, the Bible is the only infallible authority for the church.” Table Talk, Feb. 2017<\/p>\n

One of my sources of spiritual heartburn with the movie “The Shack” is the way it erodes people’s confidence in the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. Instead of a confused and broken man finding answers to his deep questions in the pages of Scripture, it has him conversing directly with a personification of god in the person of a woman.
\nThere are several problems with this. Not only does it portray god in a way that the Scripture never does (a woman), it teaches us to look for the answers to our suffering for Direct Revelations from God.
\nThey aren’t coming!
\nGod has given us His Word and it is sufficient!<\/p>\n

“For Whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the endurance and comfort of the Scripture might have hope.” Romans 15:4<\/p>\n

Notice Romans 15:4. We are instructed to look to the comfort of Scripture that we might have hope. As we study suffering today, I implore you that in your times of suffering you don’t run to a shack to find a word from god- Run instead to God’s infallible Word- it is there that the Spirit will give you hope.<\/p>\n

Because of Grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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