Thanks for this. I've been chewing on "do you believe in God or do you just believe in Jesus." I was going over 1 Peter 2 this morning and Peter emphasizes in 2:1-2 "God and...Jesus" and "knowledge of God and Jesus..." So believing in God would involve believing in the order and reality of God, which is bigger than believing in a Person?
Dallas deals with that verse on page 319 (chapter 9). There is a way in which the life and teaching of Jesus help us believe even more fully in God. But Dallas's statement about believing in Jesus but not believing in God is an observation of social behavior today. People who profess that they are with Jesus and follow him but they don't act as if God exists, e.g. don't believe Psalm 23.
Thanks for this. I've been chewing on "do you believe in God or do you just believe in Jesus." I was going over 1 Peter 2 this morning and Peter emphasizes in 2:1-2 "God and...Jesus" and "knowledge of God and Jesus..." So believing in God would involve believing in the order and reality of God, which is bigger than believing in a Person?
Dallas deals with that verse on page 319 (chapter 9). There is a way in which the life and teaching of Jesus help us believe even more fully in God.
But Dallas's statement about believing in Jesus but not believing in God is an observation of social behavior today. People who profess that they are with Jesus and follow him but they don't act as if God exists, e.g. don't believe Psalm 23.