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Hoe Bybelgeskiedenis deur menslike teologie en filosofie verdraai word

Hoe Bybelgeskiedenis deur menslike teologie en filosofie verdraai word

Wat is die verskil tussen geskiedenis en teologie, tussen geskiedenis en filosofie?

Geskiedenis is feite, bewyse, gebeure wat plaasgevind het, dade wat geopenbaar is, gedrag en metodes wat uitgevoer is, en lewens wat geleef is. Dit is openbaring deur aksie, deur daad, deur prestasie wat openbaar hoe die werklikheid werk, wat die kwaliteit of karakter van die deelnemers openbaar. Die Bybel is ‘n boek van geskiedenis, van bewyse, werklikheid, dade, optredes en prestasies om deur feite, waarheid en demonstrasie die korrupsie van sonde, die leuens van die vyand en die reddende waarheid van God bloot te lê.

Teologie en filosofie is teorieë, verduidelikings, rasionaliserings en verstandelike konsepte wat moontlik of moontlik nie iets met die werklikheid, geskiedenis, feite en bewyse te doen het nie. Teologie en filosofie is beskrywings en verduidelikings van gebeure wat moontlik of moontlik nie die waarheid verteenwoordig nie.

Daar is gebeure – en daar is interpretasies van gebeure. Teologie is interpretasie van gebeure.

Hier is ‘n voorbeeld:

Historiese gebeurtenis: Jesus is in 31 nC buite die poorte van Jerusalem op Pasga Vrydag aan die kruis tereggestel.

Teologie is die vele en verskillende interpretasies van wat daardie gebeurtenis beteken en wat dit bereik het. Hierdie interpretasies verskil baie. Party meen dat Jesus net ‘n mens was en teregstelling verdien het omdat hy oproer teen Rome en godslastering teen Jahweh aangehits het. Ander sê God het Jesus aan die kruis doodgemaak as straf vir menslike sondes en om die wetlike straf te betaal om die toorn van die Vader te laat bedaar sodat ons wetlik deur God vergewe kon word. Nog ander sê dat Jesus vrywillig na die kruis gegaan het om die gesamentlike doel van die Godheid te vervul om die doodsveroorsakende element wat Adam se sonde in die spesie mens ingebring het, te vernietig en die mensdom te herstel tot eenheid (versoening) met God. En natuurlik is daar baie meer interpretasies (teologieë).

My punt hier is dat daar gebeure, feite, prestasies en bewyse is – en dan is daar die interpretasies, die verdraaiings, die verduidelikings, die filosofieë en teologieë wat deur die gebeure bevorder word.

 

DIE MEESTER VAN VERDRAAIING

Satan is die meester van verdraaiing, die uitvinder van drogredenering, die vader van leuens, die verdraaier van feite in perverse teologieë wat God verkeerd voorstel om soos die bose een in funksie en karakter te wees.

God is die God van die werklikheid. Hy is die Skepper en Onderhouer van alle werklikheid. As sodanig wil Hy hê mense moet dink, redeneer, verstaan, proe en sien, die werklikheid self ervaar – en ophou om hul denke aan ander oor te gee om vertel te word wat die bewyse beteken.

Satan se primêre metode om die bewyse te verdraai, is deur mense te kry om ‘n aanname te maak wat vals is, en sodra daardie leuen as waar aanvaar word, om dan die geskiedenisverslag te lees – die Bybel – en daardie rekord te interpreteer deur die leuen wat hulle as waar aanvaar het. Sodoende word die feite gebuig en verdraai om die teenoorgestelde van die werklikheid te leer.

En Satan se nommer een leuen is dat God se wet funksioneer soos menslike wette – opgemaakte reëls wat eksterne afdwinging vereis deur die oplegging van straf. Daardie soort wet is die soort wat skepsele maak, so om te glo dat God se wet op hierdie manier funksioneer, is om aan God die eienskappe en karakter van ‘n skepsel toe te skryf.

Maar God is die Skepper, en Sy wette is die ontwerpwette waarop die werklikheid self gebou is om op te werk – die vaste wette van hemel en aarde (Jeremia 33:25), soos swaartekrag, fisika, die wette van gesondheid en die morele wette van liefde, waarheid, vryheid en aanbidding.

Die primêre doel van Bybelgeskiedenis is om mense te kry om die werklikheid waar te neem en te verstaan, hoe God se ontwerpwette funksioneer en werk, waarom dinge gebeur soos hulle gebeur, en om verlig te word, om te kyk en waar te neem, om te sien en te verstaan. God wil hê ons moet Sy optrede in die geskiedenis sien, die feite van Sy prestasies, ingrypings, suksesse en die resultate wanneer Hy ophou om die opstandiges te beskerm en hulle toelaat om te ervaar waarop hulle aandring – die lewe apart van Hom. Al hierdie historiese bewyse moet verstaan word in hul openbarende aard – met ander woorde, in wat dit aan ons openbaar oor God, die aard en karakter van sonde, en God se oplossing daarvoor. Dit is die historiese feite wat die duidelikste spreek, nie die adfkondigings nie, en beslis nie die filosofiese en teologiese verklarings wat so gereeld deur moderne godsdienstige mense bevorder word nie – omdat byna alle moderne teologieë die historiese feite interpreteer deur die dwaling, die valsheid, dat God se wet funksioneer soos menslike wet en daarom leer hulle van ‘n god wat straf, wat vereis dat die bloed van ‘n menslike offer aan hom geoffer word om sy toorn af te weer en vergifnis te koop.

Hieronder is skakels na verskeie blogs waarin ek die historiese feite deur die twee regslense kontrasteer. Ek daag jou uit om die bewyse van die geskiedenis te evalueer, self te dink en tot jou eie gevolgtrekking te kom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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