If I put that title in quotation marks, who should I credit with the statement, the question ?
Think I’ll save that for a bit, for anyone who doesn’t already have the answer (the author).

I looked up at the stars a few minutes ago, as I do on every clear night.
Did God really say, “Let there be light” ?
One of the most fascinating phrases in the Bible, when God made the lights, is included almost as an afterthought, a minor detail—ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MINOR ABOUT IT—“Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.”
“He also made the stars.”
“HE ALSO MADE THE STARS.”
“HE ALSO MADE THE STARS.”

We (mankind) always knew there were a lot of stars, a whole lot of stars !
But only now, after 6,000 years of seeing them by every person who ever lived—only now have we learned just how many stars there are.
Correction—we only know how many we don’t know are out there, besides the ones we know.
It keeps getting harder to count them.
It keeps getting harder to comprehend God.
It keeps getting more ridiculous to think there is no God behind everything.

Isn’t it interesting how all the scientific discoveries of the millennia, and everything we’ve uncovered in the tiniest particles of the universe, and the most massive stuff out there, and in the earth—how it all, ALL, fits perfectly in what the Bible tells us from the beginning.

I see bridges in massive highway interchanges, and I thank God for placing that potential in man and the materials to do it with—all of that built-in during the one week of creation.

I DO BELIEVE GOD IS GREAT ! ! !

Did God really say, “Let there be light” ?

Did God really say, “Let there be . . . everything else in all the world, in all the universe ?

Did God really say, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” ?

Did God really say, “Let Us make man in Our image.” ?

Did God really say, “In the image of God He created man—male and female He created them.” ?

Did God really say, “In the beginning was the Word—and the Word was with God—and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us.” ?
That would be Jesus—check it out in the first chapter of John in your Bible.

Did God really say ?
You better believe it !

What are you going to do about it ?
READ YOUR BIBLE—IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE—GUARANTEED !
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And now, if anyone has any doubts about what God really said—
Who raised the question, “Did God really say ?” ?
The devil said it, and tricked people into sin ever since the Garden of Eden.

First–
Find all Bible verses that might speak to the subject.

Second–
Read, re-read, study, re-study these verses.

Third–
Refrain from saying anything about the doctrine you’re thinking about defining/nailing down.

Fourth–
Let the Bible verses speak for themselves, by themselves, without commentary.

Fifth–
When you think you ‘have to’ formulate a doctrine statement, just use Bible verses.

Where do we get the idea that we can say (must say) ‘it’, that is ‘anything’, better than the Bible says it ?

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What about Bible verses that seem to say different things than other verses on a subject ?

Do we think we can solve that by adding man’s words, to explain what God didn’t make clear to our satisfaction in the Bible ?

“Oh, let me explain it, and I can make it clear” ? ? ?

“Oh, let Me explain it, and I can make it clear” ? ? ?

“Oh, let ME explain it, and I can make it clear” ? ? ?

There’s more where that comes from.
Example—30,000,000 “explanations for the trinity” (right there on the internet first time I looked)—just because Bible verses alone weren’t enough to tell us about God—Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

We get in trouble “comparing ourselves with those who commend themselves . . . measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, they are not wise.”*

We have a theological pattern of creating doctrines, for 2000+ years — — — shake it off ?—but nobody does that—why not ?—we’re stuck—everybody refers to some revered person or statement in the past — — — almost impossible to start fresh with just the Bible, without somebody ‘enlightened’ telling us . . . how it is . . . what it really says . . . what it really means.

Why do we refer to what people say about God, a long time ago, and today, to form our doctrine ?

XX– Is it because the Words in the Word of God are not enough for us ?
OR
XX– Is it because it is too much work for us to spend time in the Bible, for ourselves, to see what God says about Himself ?

Who do we want to impress with our knowledge of theology ?
How do we expect to impress them ?
— By quoting important people to show our knowledge of church history ?
OR
— By quoting God to show everything we must know about Him and History !

“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately explaining the Word of Truth.”

* “For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
But ‘he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.’ For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.”

TRUMP CAMPAIGN
+ Promises
+ Personalities
+ Rhetoric

TRUMP PRESIDENT
+ Strictly Policies
+ Action
+ Rhetoric Left Behind

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To all Trump supporters/commentators:
Please, follow Trump’s example—since inauguration, consistent pattern of sticking to business, strictly keeping his promises with action to follow through.
He has no time—He’s wasting no time—on election style trivia—laser focused on what needs to be addressed, now.
Same for us ! ! !
Discontinue the disclaimers of mentioning Trump’s imperfections, and get on board with supporting and praying and thanking God for what He is doing through this President.
Before November 5 the consistent compulsion to always mention something about Trump that wasn’t quite to our liking—that pattern of talking could have cost us the election, with voters hearing that hesitation and losing conviction to vote for Trump—LEAVE THAT BEHIND !
The same is true for us now—the momentum must be maintained and reinforced with the same commitment from before the election.

+ + + AND, communicate to all republicans in Congress—Please leave all previous patterns of reservations about Trump, and get behind the MAGA agenda NOW, before this window to restore America closes again.

“Turn around—Don’t drown”
—–Noah

Donald Trump, Mr. President,
“Consider Him, Jesus, who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and faint in your way.”

You’re on America’s mission, with Americans behind you.

If you’re also on God’s mission, nothing will stop His power behind you.

Millions of us prayed and voted you into the White House.

Our prayers continue, and “We are confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

(This article repeats some thoughts and principles of the previous article, intentionally.)

If trinity is biblical, why did it take the ‘church fathers’ centuries to come up with it ?
Then, why is trinity a given by all theologians ever since ?

And, is not this the very precedent that gave the church license to add teachings and doctrines and edicts and volumes and volumes delineating beliefs and professions and rejecting every detail to the contrary.

Isn’t it interesting that ‘everybody agrees’ on the trinity without ever thinking about it, and yet today—
All the varied teachings/interpretations of the end-time time-line(s) fluctuate between “it’s obviously this way” and “different teachers have these different views” and “my thinking goes this way.”

So, we have a universal, default devotion to trinity—extra-biblical at best—with no consensus to explain trinity or prove its benefits.

At the same time, we need someone, some authority, somebody to sweep everybody off their feet to believe one ‘truth’ about the end-time time-line (so we can be a better witness?).
It’s sort of like a church version of the international desperate need for somebody to rally the world under one leader, to save us from ourselves.

I observe a theological mess.
Quoting others is about as frequent as quoting the Bible.
Every time I hear ‘consensus among theologians’ (again today), I cringe for the lessons learned from dangerous, deadly corona ‘consensus among (so-called) scientists’.