How do you interpret the Bible?
Through prophets and apostles God has revealed himself to man, and has given the canonical scriptures too by means of them. The scriptures of the Bible have a dignity and significance, and we give them faith in all the things of which we should not be ignorant, but which we cannot know by ourselves because they are not present.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
II.1 chapter 2
How do we know about God?
It is not an easy thing to know God, because he is unchangeable unlike the other creatures. But God speaks though in a manner that even the deaf can hear him: because He speaks by truth to the mind of man. And the mind of man is what we believe part of the image of God in man. However, because the human mind has become weak and powerless by some besotting and inveterate vices, even powerless to improve, it needs faith to clean it. This faith is founded by and in Jesus Christ, mediator between God and man.
It is not an easy thing to know God, because he is unchangeable unlike the other creatures. But God speaks though in a manner that even the deaf can hear him: because He speaks by truth to the mind of man. And the mind of man is what we believe part of the image of God in man. However, because the human mind has become weak and powerless by some besotting and inveterate vices, even powerless to improve, it needs faith to clean it. This faith is founded by and in Jesus Christ, mediator between God and man.
II.1 chapter 1
What is the City of God?
The City of God is which the scriptures of the Bible have witnessed of, which are written not by chance, but determined by the power of God, therefore exceeding all other writings: it is founded by and cared for by God. God is a God of those that subject themselves to him and love him, not of those who subject others to themselves and want to be honored themselves instead of God.
The City of God is which the scriptures of the Bible have witnessed of, which are written not by chance, but determined by the power of God, therefore exceeding all other writings: it is founded by and cared for by God. God is a God of those that subject themselves to him and love him, not of those who subject others to themselves and want to be honored themselves instead of God.
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