双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：7月28日 辨明真假

7月28日

辨明真假

他们将神的真实变为虚谎，去敬拜事奉受造之物，不敬奉那造物的主；主乃是可称颂的，直到永远。阿们。

罗马书1:25

我在大学主修人类学，字典将它解释为一门研究人类种族、习俗和信仰的科学。我也曾有幸游历各大洲。从我个人经验中发觉，我从人类学中所学到的是正确的：人类具有宗教信仰的本能，绝大多数人都信奉或宣称他们相信某种宗教。

宗教可以定义为具有两个立场：圣经的和自然主义的。圣经的立场在圣经的教义中已经有所描述，自然主义立场在所有人为宗教中也都有解释。在人文主义体系中总有一些真理元素，许多信仰都借鉴了犹太教和基督教，使用了部分内容，也融入了一些他们自己的寓言故事。其他宗教或信仰也有基督教整体内容中的一些片段。

使徒保罗描述了自然主义的立场，说，人们“将不能朽坏之神的荣耀，变为偶像，彷佛必朽坏的人，和飞禽走兽昆虫的样式。（罗马书1:23）。

虚假的自然主义宗教就像对高级时装的仿造。我看过，在巴黎世界时尚中心展示原创设计后，很快就会在各大商店出现赝品。赝品证明了正品的存在。没有正品就不会有赝品。上帝的原创设计一直都有仿造者和赝品！

今日祷告：

天父，我们爱祢！祈求祢赐给我们清醒的头脑，让我们认识并相信真实的事物，排斥那些虚假的。祷告奉耶稣的名，阿们。

July 28

THE FALSE AND THE TRUE

For they exchanged the truth…for a lie,and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever.Amen.Romans 1:25.NASB

My major in college was anthropology,which the dictionary explains as a science dealing with the races,customs,and beliefs of mankind.I have also had the privilege of traveling extensively on every continent.I have found from personal experience that what I learned from anthropology is true:Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion-and not only a capacity,for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.

Religion can be defined as having two magnetic poles,the biblical and the naturalistic.The biblical pole is described in the teaching of the Bible.The naturalistic pole is explained in all the man-made religions.In humanistic systems there are always certain elements of truth.Many of these faiths have borrowed from Judeo-Christianity;many use portions and incorporate their own fables.Other religions or faiths have in fragments what Christianity has as a whole.

The apostle Paul described the naturalistic pole when he said that men“exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures”(Romans 1:23,NASB).

A false,naturalistic religion is like the imitation of high fashion.I’ve read that after an exclusive showing of original designs in one of the fashion centers of the world like Paris,copies will soon appear in the mass merchandising stores under different labels.The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real.There would be no imitations without a genuine product.God’s original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!

Pray for the Day:

Father,we love You.We pray that You will give us clear minds to recognize and believe the real thing and to denounce what is a lie;in Jesus’Name,Amen.