God has all the knowledge in existence. In order to fully know God we would have to have all the knowledge in existence. But since we don’t, we can only believe in God by faith. And as we saw in the last post, faith in God can be considered reasonable faith because it is based…
The second dispensation failed because the people of that had great knowledge, but they relied on knowledge alone to form their worldview. They did not believe in anything they did not know completely, therefore they did not fully believe in God. They lacked faith. Generally speaking, faith is the willingness to rely on something that…
In the second dispensation, humanity was given time to amass an abundance of knowledge in order to determine if knowledge alone would lead them to choose God. The dispensation failed because while men had knowledge of God, they did not believe in God. They lacked faith. Faith is the mechanism through which we believe. You…
The dispensations are God’s process of contrastively showing that His plan for humanity is right. The first dispensation asked the question, – if man was completely innocent; with no knowledge of the long-term consequences of his actions (good and evil), would he choose to continue to rely on God for moment by moment direction, or…
This week, we conclude our examination of the first dispensation. I will be the first to admit that this series went on a LOT longer than I had originally planned – not only because I had to take a break from posting for a couple of months, but also in the number of posts in…