Monday 22 December 2008

My Bible, my curse? my blessing?


"The Bible is without error or mistake, if there is any error or mistake, it is man made error and mistake, or there is because of the translation mistake, or it is because there is interpretation error or mistake." (Wong Ming Tao's The Truth of Born again. pg 58-59) 「圣经中没有错误。若有错误,不是圣经本身的错误,乃是人弄出来的。或是译圣经的译错,或是解圣经的解错。」——王明道,《重生真义》,页58-59。

"Our belief is, we will accept all truth in the Bible, and obey them; if there is any thing not from the Bible, we will reject totally." (Wong Ming Tao's Because of Belief, pg 320) 我们在信仰上的态度是:凡是圣经中的真理,我们都接受,都持守;圣经中所没有的东西,我们完全拒绝。」——王明道,〈我们是为了信仰〉,《王明道文库》,第七册,页320.

Today, the church must believe, God had inspired the Bible in its languages and words, God had chosen every language and word, His masterpiece is perfectly trustworthy and dependable, inerrant and infallible. (In fact, the inerrant is applied to the autographs, not to copies of the autographs) 今天教会必需维护一个信念,就是:神在《圣经》默示过程所选用的语言及文字,既由神亲自选用,其作品必然绝对真实可靠、无谬无误。(真实无误是指<<圣经>>的原本﹐不是指抄本。)

The copied text may has error, but the spiritual meaning is more important, the meaning is the power to change the life. 载体是肯定有误的﹔重要的是精义﹐是内容﹐是改变生命的大能。

The Bible is inspired and inerrant and infallible, this is historical truth, people in the 21th century need to hear this truth. 《圣经》默示及无误是《圣经》自身的宣称,是历代不变的真理,也是廿一世纪极需听到的讯息。

Today, the Chinese Churches are facing a great danger, if we do not renew and build our foundation of our theology in the doctrine of Scripture, after ten, twenty years, the present evangelical churches, seminary, will become Liberal churches and seminary. 今天华人神学及神学教育界面临重大危机,若不重新在《圣经》论建立稳固的信仰(神学)根基,十年、二十年之后,今天的福音派教会、神学院,会变为明天的自由派教会、神学院.

Look at Liberalism in the 19th century, liberals is following Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher. For them, the truth in Christianity is based on man, not based on God. Christianity is the experience of man, it is not God's revelation.十九世纪之自由派,跟着康德(Immanuel Kant),士来马赫(Friedrich Schleiermacher)等思想走,论到基督教信仰之真义时,认为只是人本,不是神本,是人的宗教经历,不是神的直接启示。

Neo-Orthodoxy is headed by Karl barth, he was influenced by Soren Kierkegaard, he said the religion is based on subjectivity. 新正统神学,以巴特为代表,受祁克果之影响,强调人宗教经历之主观性。

Barth's theology of the Bible had been taken by the American Presbyterian, in Confession of the 1967. They did not say anything about the Bible is the Word of God.巴特式的圣经观已被美国联合长老会写入1967年之信条中 — 从不提及《圣经》就是神的话。

Neo-evangelicalism was started in 1970s, in Fuller Seminary, in 1940 it was very fundamental, after in 1970s some of the theologians started to fall away from the truth, they rejected the infallible Bible. 新福音派(Neo-evangelicalism)于一九七零年代兴起。美国富乐(Fuller)神学院与1940年代创办﹐起初信仰非常正统﹔但到了七零年代﹐其中有一部分教授开始弃绝「圣经无误」观念。

How they explained the authority of the Bible, they said the Bible is inspired by God in totality, but at the same time they also say that some parts of the Bible is not inspired! 他们是如何理解《圣经》的权威呢?有人说,《圣经》整体是神所默示,但其中某些部分不是神默示的。

What about Postmodernist? They are not new in 21th century, they have powerful influences in the education and philosophy ares, they are promoting deconstructionism. 后现代的诠释学。迈进廿一世纪,学术界中最具影响力的诠释理论,乃后现代主义的「解构主义」。

How they translate the Bible? They said the author does not exist, the text is not exist, even the reader is not exist, and I myself also not exist! 后现代诠释学不但宣称作者不存在,文本不存在;连读者──我自己──也不存在!

How we believe about the Bible? The Bible is infallible and inerrant, not even in the doctrines, life, history and science facts in the Bible are infallible. The Bible is inerrant, this is talking about the autographs, but if the copies or the apographs are faithfull conveying the meaning of the autographs, we also treat the apographs as the Bible, as the Word of God. (Please refer to the Chicago's Confession about the inerrant of the Bible.) 圣灵所默示的《圣经》,是全无谬误的 (infallible and inerrant)。不单在教义、生活方面,而且在历史、科学范围内的宣称,也是无误的。「圣经无误」是指原本(autographs),不过当译本准确地表达原本的意义时,我们也应当它为《圣经》,为神的话。(参阅《芝加哥圣经无误宣言》.)

Why we must read the Bible? To fear God, to worship God, to thank God, and to be holy like God, and hating the wicked and sins, and to find abundance and satisfaction in God. If we say we believe the Bible is inerrant, than we must accept the choice of God in all His Words, all His Meanings and all His concepts! 为什要读圣经? 应圣经可以使我们敬畏神,敬拜神,感谢神,与神的圣洁,忌邪认同,在神的丰富中找到满足,信靠神,爱慕神,顺服神.相信《圣经》之无误,必需同时接纳《圣经》中神所选用的所有文字、词语、观念。

Why we must have a Bible College? Because the goal and task of Christian education is education itself! 为什么我们要开办神学院呢?基督教教育之目标及任务,即教育本身!」

Farewell in Christ! 再见主面!

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