How do you know anything?

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Please cite my two contradictory statements.

As a Baptist I hold that the Christian New Testament is the sole Apostolic authority of the Christian faith. Genuine Christianity stands and falls by the Christian New Testament. The Christian New Testament being the sole real evidence of the resurrection of Christ.

I became a Christian on the notion that I could know for sure when I died that I would go to Heaven. That notion is based on the understanding that the Bible to be the word of God and that God cannot lie.

Just merely because I had believed that did not make it true. So either it is true or it is not. The phenomena of the gospel of grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone causes one to actually know God. And this is found originally in the Christian New Testament alone.

I appreciate your points. I would add that the New Testament is not really a standalone document (or set of documents), but rather an extension of the Old Testament, which is a vital witness of God and what he would do, namely send his Son as the sacrifice for sin, and raise the crucified Lord from the dead. God did a lot of preparing in the thousands of years prior. Then it all happened according to the Scriptures.

 

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I appreciate your points. I would add that the New Testament is not really a standalone document (or set of documents), but rather an extension of the Old Testament, which is a vital witness of God and what he would do, namely send his Son as the sacrifice for sin, and raise the crucified Lord from the dead. God did a lot of preparing in the thousands of years prior. Then it all happened according to the Scriptures.

So as the Apostle Paul wrote the Corinthian church, ". . . how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . ." -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. Add to this the fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel which was fulfilled 40 years afterwords, ". . . shall [the] Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; . . ." -- Daniel 9:26. Which leave the people of Israel without the ability to claim to follow Moses. For which Jesus had argued, "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me." -- John 5:46.

 

[Alan Gross]

God is Knowable.