Cogitations by Brad

You can’t believe everything about anything, with the exception of God and His Word. I think that’s a big problem with people and religion. It’s easier just to take everything we hear, and all the traditions we have, and except them as right.

In Hezekiah’s day, there were high places, which were places of worship. As my teacher in class told us today, tradition is what you’ve experienced, and for all we know, it may not have been tradition before us. The high places had always been there for the Israelites during the time of Hezekiah, and so when he tore them down, he tore down their tradition.

Jesus did similar things to the Pharisees. He stood up to what would be the preachers and elders of the day, and told them their religion was fake. I’ve seen a lot of parallels in Christianity today and what the Pharisees were doing. If we are just Christians with words, but no actions, we are no better than the Pharisees.

I don’t think we should be full-time skeptics, but if we believe everything that’s stated in the pulpit and everything that’s “tradition” to us, we won’t be doing the full will of God, which is written in His Word.

Just something to chew on.