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Agreed... but if our focus is on the substance and evidence perhaps some of the issues in the "gap" might be avoided......Ishmael
...Striking the Rock the second time
...Bathsheba
etc.
Not that these OT men of God had such examples, but we do.
1 Corinthians 10:11Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Robert...again excellent points...that I had not thought of and can use in future blogs.
Add two: Why is an understanding of biblical faith so important:
1 John 5:4..."For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world..." which is..."even our faith."
The Bible tells us in many places that knowledge...that comes from God (and from learning from past mistakes of others and ourselves)...is important (Hos. 4:6; Isa. 5:13; Dan. 12:10).
An obvious "gap" that came to mind this morning...is the current Christian church waiting for the second coming of Christ...producing the context for biblical faith to actualize and mature in the meantime.
Add two: Why is an understanding of biblical faith so important:
1 John 5:4..."For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world..." which is..."even our faith."
The Bible tells us in many places that knowledge...that comes from God (and from learning from past mistakes of others and ourselves)...is important (Hos. 4:6; Isa. 5:13; Dan. 12:10).
An obvious "gap" that came to mind this morning...is the current Christian church waiting for the second coming of Christ...producing the context for biblical faith to actualize and mature in the meantime.
Here is another critically important reason to understand Biblical faith...Romans 14:23 - "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin."
Yes...another great verse about faith...a definite binary "is" or "is not" in-operation reality.
Gideon going out with 300 against an opposing army of multitudes...based upon faith in the word of God...does not reach the point of A to B until the Midianite army is defeated and run out of Israel.
So the substance is the faith that Gideon used to move forward with God's plan of attack...the thing "not seen" actualized at point B in time after the positive result was achieved.
Can everyone see the same dynamic at work in the story of Esther, or Hannah, or Joseph, or Moses, or David...or Peter for that matter...even Jesus between Luke 12:50 and Luke 23:34?
A God created gap or space or interval in the storyline...forms the context for us to discover first-hand the faithfulness and dependability of God in a way that is totally foreign to worldly conventional normalcy and thinking.
This is unique and nowhere in existence any where else except in the Bible.
No human writers could or would invent this...it is completely outside of humanistic imagination or contrivance.