Hebrews 13:8
God and Jesus the Same, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
The Prophet Malachi writes that the LORD does not change...And the Hebrews author writes the similar thing that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever...God is always LOVE, always Perfect and Good, and always full of Grace and Truth...No matter how modern the world seems to get and how the world changes around us, we can trust that God is always Consistent and Perfect...He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!...If God changes His Character and His Traits can He still be God?...God lives in the eternal so His Glory is timeless...In His Divine Work still touches us today, as it will in the future, as it has in the past...By having the ability to be in the past, present, and future God has touched all people that has and have ever been on earth...Our Father has given us the Truth, the Beauty, and the Goodness of Creation...And as St. John writes, since Jesus and God have both been with us from the very beginning, all believer's with their faith have been able to step inside with their faith and learn about the ideas of God and Jesus, the Messiah of the Old Testament...And those with this faith have a Jesus Way of looking at things, because He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life...
Alister Edgar McGrath is a Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and author...He has written books about C. S. Lewis...McGrath says these ideas on different things about what Lewis has written...“Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and “chime in” with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness.”...“Lewis’s apologetic approach generally takes the form of identifying a common human observation or experience, and then showing how it fits, naturally and plausibly, within a Christian way of looking at things.”...
McGrath adds this about one thinks about our Father and sometimes one's ideas or theories are just that, one's opinion and one's ideas: “Lewis's point is that Feurbach and Freud have cast a spell over Western culture, aiming to convince us that they are right and we are wrong...They present their speculative theories as if they were self-evident truths: Only a fool would think there is a God!...Lewis helps us see that, in the first place, their approach is only a theory, and in the second, it is not a particularly plausible theory...It's only one way of looking at things - which is what the word theory really means - and there are other (and better) ways of seeing...Lewis's story gives us another way of looking at this "projection" theory, which makes us see that it is far more vulnerable than we might otherwise have realized.”...“Lewis helps us to appreciate that apologetics need not take the form of deductive argument...Instead, apologetics can be an invitation to step into the Christian way of seeing things, and explore how things look when seen from its standpoint...Lewis’s approach says, “Try seeing things this way!”...If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into sharpest focus?”...
So as we think about other people's ideas, and in this case Feurbach and Freud, another one's ideas are their way of thinking...One's idea is just that an idea...When one has an idea, it maybe a good idea or it may be a bad idea...But an old idea is not necessarily a bad idea but it could be...It is also possible that an old idea is and was a good idea at the time...McGrath speaks about old ideas and new ideas, letting us know that ideas are just ideas, whether current or from our history...And that there are Truths that are forever eternal...Let us look and examine people's opinions more critically, especially when the idea reflects a worldview and important type of idea...McGrath writes: “For Lewis, people are too easily taken in by the latest cultural and intellectual fashions...Wanting to be “up to date” in their thinking, they uncritically accept the latest ideas they read about in the media...Reading older books, Lewis argues, helps us to realise that “basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods.”...We need to remember that the ideas we tend to regard as hopelessly old fashioned and out of date were once seen as cutting edge...What was once new and brilliant becomes old and stale...Perhaps Lewis seems a little too scathing when he declares that “much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.”...Yet his point is fair: much recent thought is fleeting, lacking the staying power to excite and inform later generations...So is Lewis saying that only old ideas are any good, and that new ideas are invariably wrong?...No...He is asking us to be critical...New ideas need to be looked at carefully...They may be good; they may be bad...But ideas are not automatically good because they are new...Similarly, many—but not all—old ideas have permanent value...They have proved themselves through the centuries, and will continue to be important in the future...We need to figure out which ideas and values are of lasting importance, and hold fast to them.”...“A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational...It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.”...