Marion and I were given the “grand tour” of our neighbor’s garden. She proudly showed us her cucumbers, saying “These are our pickles, but I can’t remember which kind.” Then she saw her husband coming out to join us. “Joe,” she called, “are these sweet or sour pickles?”
It is easy to speak with false authority on subjects about which we know little. For example, we sometimes encounter persons who have developed their own ideas about God and what it means to know Him.
Some have said it doesn’t matter what one believes, so long as he is sincere in his beliefs. But Jesus declared only one way of salvation when he said, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me.” John 14:6 (KJV)
When it comes to a relationship with God, our man-made ideas just won’t do. We must turn to the supreme authority: the word of God.
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