Scepticism

24 January 2011

1 Corinthians 2:14 The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Scepticism brings about uncertainty, cynicism, doubt and finally disbelief, the cause of scepticism is rooted in rationalism and loss of hope. As children we grew up with fairy tales, Santa Claus, and the magic of imagination, these are slowly eroded away by the experience of the world and that all that is left is scepticism. Scepticism is a defence mechanism to overcome the insecurities and doubts of something that will happen outside of the persons normality. A person with limited faith, little hope and great doubt most times will be sceptical, as a result they will always drift back to the known, and worldly knowledge based on human understanding.

The spirit of scepticism like all the words ending ‘ism’ is that of the world. Christians do not have the spirit of the world, they have the Spirit of God, God is Supernatural and so when supernatural things happen, Christians accept this as the normality of God. Disbelief in the supernatural capacity of God, is disbelief in God, and each and every time a sceptic rejects the supernatural response of God, they reject God. A sceptic needs to confine God to the limits of their normality and the normality of their world, so the God that they create is the God they understand.

When we accept that God created us and that God is God, and for God all things are possible, then this drives out all scepticism, doubt and disbelief. It is then that we can worship God knowing that God is able to do more than we could ever expect or ask.

Be encouraged to be filled with the Spirit of God and not of the world.

  

David

Point to ponder: Faith is the opposite of scepticism.

Question to consider: Are you sceptical about miracles?

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