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Over and over again the Old Testament saints, when questioning God’s goodness, provision or protection, were encouraged by a leader or prophet to '''remember what God did for them''' in Egypt. God’s rescue efforts in Egypt were provided as a '''piece of evidence''', demonstrating that He was capable of rescuing His children again. God has given us visible assurance that he exists, and the writer of Hebrews is simply asking us to trust this assurance when God and his mercies seem like they are “things not seen”. Even the writer of Hebrews understood the conviction and assurance that resulted from evidence: the evidence of God’s Old Testament activities and the evidence of Jesus’ New Testament miracles.<ref>http://coldcasechristianity.com/2012/doesnt-the-bible-say-true-faith-is-blind/ Doesn’t the Bible Say True Faith is Blind?</ref> | Over and over again the Old Testament saints, when questioning God’s goodness, provision or protection, were encouraged by a leader or prophet to '''remember what God did for them''' in Egypt. God’s rescue efforts in Egypt were provided as a '''piece of evidence''', demonstrating that He was capable of rescuing His children again. God has given us visible assurance that he exists, and the writer of Hebrews is simply asking us to trust this assurance when God and his mercies seem like they are “things not seen”. Even the writer of Hebrews understood the conviction and assurance that resulted from evidence: the evidence of God’s Old Testament activities and the evidence of Jesus’ New Testament miracles.<ref>http://coldcasechristianity.com/2012/doesnt-the-bible-say-true-faith-is-blind/ Doesn’t the Bible Say True Faith is Blind?</ref> | ||
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''That's the reason you can't rise up in faith, because you got intellectuals there. Your intellectual part says, "Well, this, or that." It's a reasoning. We want to cast down reasonings, the Bible tells us.<ref>56-0121, The Inter-Veil</ref> | |||
''But now, as long as you dwell in that mental reasonings, you'll never be no different. 25 Now, the Bible said we've got to cast down reasoning.<ref>56-0128, Inspiration</ref> | |||
''The Bible said, "We cast down reasons."<ref>62-1014M, The Stature Of A Perfect Man</ref> | |||
''The Bible, in Proverbs, says, "We must cast down reasonings.<ref>65-0822M, Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word</ref> | |||
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