SoldierOfTheRock
Puritan Board Freshman
I don't know about the rest of you, but I myself know that as I have been increasing my library with many wonderful books by some of the grand old writers such as Pink, Edwards, and Watts, I have found myself to be letting the Bible set aside.
Its amazing how I realized this. I was reading Martin Luther's Tabletalk and he kept mentioning how he would read commentaries and things such as that and he said they were nothing compared to the Bible. - Well, I agreed whole heartedly and then thought about what I just agreed with and what I was currently reading.
So, I turned off the computer and went and read some of that good ol' Scripture!
I did not post this to tell you all to go read only your Bible, because I myself still read the other stuff daily, I was just wondering if anyone else had found themselves getting away from reading thier Bibles?
I love all of my books, except for that purpose driven thing, and read them all. I just found myself reading them more than my Bible - thanks be to God, and Martin Luther as his speaker to remind me of my shortcoming.
Joshua
"V.
He who has made himself master of the principles and text of the word runs little risk of
committing errors. A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of
faith-that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and
silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run
them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion
of their heedless imaginations. My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain,
that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is
a consummate divine. One single verse, one sentence of the text, is of far more instruction than a
whole host of glosses and commentaries, which are neither strongly penetrating nor armor of proof.
As, when I have that text before me of St Paul: "All the creatures of God are good, if they be
received with thanksgiving," this text shows, that what God has made is good. Now eating, drinking,
marrying, etc., are of God's making, therefore they are good. Yet the glosses of the primitive fathers
are against this text: for Bernard, Basil, Jerome, and others, have written to far other purpose. But
I prefer the text to them all, though, in popedom, the glosses were deemed of higher value than the
bright and clear text." - Martin Luter - Tabletalk - Of God's Word - Part V.
Its amazing how I realized this. I was reading Martin Luther's Tabletalk and he kept mentioning how he would read commentaries and things such as that and he said they were nothing compared to the Bible. - Well, I agreed whole heartedly and then thought about what I just agreed with and what I was currently reading.
So, I turned off the computer and went and read some of that good ol' Scripture!
I did not post this to tell you all to go read only your Bible, because I myself still read the other stuff daily, I was just wondering if anyone else had found themselves getting away from reading thier Bibles?
I love all of my books, except for that purpose driven thing, and read them all. I just found myself reading them more than my Bible - thanks be to God, and Martin Luther as his speaker to remind me of my shortcoming.
Joshua
"V.
He who has made himself master of the principles and text of the word runs little risk of
committing errors. A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of
faith-that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and
silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run
them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion
of their heedless imaginations. My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain,
that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is
a consummate divine. One single verse, one sentence of the text, is of far more instruction than a
whole host of glosses and commentaries, which are neither strongly penetrating nor armor of proof.
As, when I have that text before me of St Paul: "All the creatures of God are good, if they be
received with thanksgiving," this text shows, that what God has made is good. Now eating, drinking,
marrying, etc., are of God's making, therefore they are good. Yet the glosses of the primitive fathers
are against this text: for Bernard, Basil, Jerome, and others, have written to far other purpose. But
I prefer the text to them all, though, in popedom, the glosses were deemed of higher value than the
bright and clear text." - Martin Luter - Tabletalk - Of God's Word - Part V.
