The Word of God, The Moral Compass of the Believer.

The phrase, "I believe" sounds strong and sincere but it can lead to disaster.  In our "enlightened" age, it seems that taking the Word of God as it is by faith has become looked upon as a sign of intellectual weakness.  Only the uneducated, the simpleton would make a decision to believe without scientific evidence.  Of course for the "believer" in the Lord, that is exactly what true faith requires.  The very definition of faith is, "the evidence of things not seen."  From the beginning of time, faith has never caused problems.  "Reason" is the culprit. Satan's original temptation that led away from God was the simple question, "has God said?"  Are you sure that God really said that?  Do you think He really meant that?  Would a loving God really do that?  The questions continue to this day.  Daily we hear such things as, "would a loving God allow people to go to hell?"  Reason has become and altar and understanding a false god.  It seems most people walk in faith only as far as their understanding will allow.  If they can't understand, they won't believe.  Yet, true faith says, "I will obey even if I don't understand."  Well then, "what is to keep us from doing evil in the name of faith?"  After all people kill people and say that God told them to do it.  The balance here is a knowledge of Scripture.  Faith and obedience to the voice of God is always within the framework of the Bible.  We never believe, think or act outside of Scripture.  Our moral compass, that invisible part of us that tells us what is right and wrong is not a feeling or even accumulated knowledge.  It is the renewed mind brought about by a regeneration of the mind.  Our old mind and our old thinking that was based upon experience and reason is now established by, and upon, God's Word.  Our new regenerated mind is in fact God's mind.  The "mind of Christ." Our regenerated moral compass is not my opinion or the opinion of the ever changing mentality of this world but true north established by God almighty.  Scientific evidence is always changing and resetting to new standards.  God's Word, His parameters of love for His children have always been and will always be the same.