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Vol. 2 ... #8
When you add to the word of God, you weaken your own faith in the Word of God
Genesis 3 ... Eve added to the word spoken by God ...
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Did God really say "neither shall ye touch it", or did Eve add that to the word spoken by God, being wise in her own eyes?
Genesis 2 ... 15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
If we add to the word of God this way, we know only part of what we said was spoken by God ... we know part of what we said was not spoken by God but is our own idea... therefore we find it easier to doubt since we know some of what we spoke was not actually spoken by God.
When Paul wrote his epistles which God placed into the Bible for us, Paul often made a distinction between what he thought vs. that which was a "commandment" of God.
An example:
I Cor. 7 ... 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:and let not the husband put away his wife.
Paul was making this clear that this information is not just his own opinion but is "a commandment" of the Lord.
Later on in I Cor. 7, Paul makes it clear that what he is speaking is his feeling about the issue but Paul says he thinks he has the mind of the Lord.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment:and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
Here Paul is saying if her husband is dead she is free to remarry but in his judgment she will be happier if she does not remarry.
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Did God really say "neither shall ye touch it", or did Eve add that to the word spoken by God, being wise in her own eyes?
Genesis 2 ... 15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
If we add to the word of God this way, we know only part of what we said was spoken by God ... we know part of what we said was not spoken by God but is our own idea... therefore we find it easier to doubt since we know some of what we spoke was not actually spoken by God.
When Paul wrote his epistles which God placed into the Bible for us, Paul often made a distinction between what he thought vs. that which was a "commandment" of God.
An example:
I Cor. 7 ... 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:and let not the husband put away his wife.
Paul was making this clear that this information is not just his own opinion but is "a commandment" of the Lord.
Later on in I Cor. 7, Paul makes it clear that what he is speaking is his feeling about the issue but Paul says he thinks he has the mind of the Lord.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment:and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
Here Paul is saying if her husband is dead she is free to remarry but in his judgment she will be happier if she does not remarry.