Monday 23 January 2017

The disputes of a landmark

Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Directions is given to fix landmarks in Canaan. It is the will of God that every one should know his own; and that means should be used to hinder the doing and suffering of wrong. This, without doubt, is a moral precept, and still binding. Let every man be content with his own lot, and be just to his neighbours in all things. (De 19:15-21) (Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary )

I think in the context of the whole Old Testament, the landmark must be preserved in the first place like the Garden of Aden, The Canaan, the Israelite Davidic Kingdom and so on.

Because of sin, the one and only Garden of Aden vanished, the promised land was divided, and so it too divided into north and south. But at last God overruled all these landmarks from time to time! Even God allowed the Assyria and Babylon taken captived the people from Israel and Judah. And they lost that piece of land for some time. Until in 1948, the landmark was returned to Israelites, but that land mark too may changed from time to time, until today there are disputes.

Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set...(commentary from mattew henry), "We are taught not to trespass on another man's right. And it is hard to find a truly industrious man. Such a man will rise. Seest thou a man diligent in the business of religion? He is likely to excel. Let us then be diligent in God's work." (Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary)

Is Verbal Plenary Preservation a business of religion or personal gain? It is in God's work? These two questions are the most prominent, in term of keeping a "landmark" or not to keep a landmark, like a Bible College! Why the Bible College was set up in the first place, and why now they want to put down the Bible College?

We should not misused the Bible verse like Deuteronomy 19:14 and Proverbs 22:28, and force other to accept a false teaching or wrong view about Bible preservation. if the church has accept the CUV and KJV, as the Bible for the people, then there will be not further dispute for any landmark at all, but since, the false theologian has split so many churches due to his personal view VPP, so he has to answer to God! In creating those disputes until the landmark removed or changed. You want VPP or the landmark for a Bible College? 

How many landmarks do you want on the way home to heaven? We needed wisdom! God does not encourage us to quarrel for any landmark in New Testament, but He commanded us to go into "the end of the world" and make disciples!

May God forgive us!

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