How do you base the importance of these?

[OneLight]

We each have built our theology a certain way, developing from what is important to us. Here is a list of ways that we can gather our information to base our theology on. Reading them over, I am curious as to how each of us places the importance. If you read them and decide that you have more then one choice for a number, say you have two that you see the same importance, then it is OK to list them side by side. You may also choose not to include one or more.

Keep in mind that this is meant for each of us to better understand how we come to accept our beliefs and is not meant for debate. There is no right or wrong way, no grades.

In the following, the terms mean:

Scripture - the bible

Tradition - Religious information that has been handed down to us from various sources. (How the Apostles acted, creeds, etc.)

Reason - Information that comes through the human mind’s capacity for logical, rational, and analytic thought.

General Revelation - Nature

Experience - Information that comes through direct encounter, participation, or observation.

Emotions - Information that comes through subjectively experienced psychological feelings.

1. Scripture
   
2. Tradition
   
3. Reason
   
4. General Revelation
   
5. Experience
   
6. Emotions
   

[OneLight]

I will start ...

1. Scripture
2. Tradition
3. Reason - Experience
4. General Revelation
5. Emotions

[artsylady]

I'll answer in two parts if you don't mind.

First on how I first came to accept my beliefs or theology came in this order.

Experience

General Revelation

Emotions

Reason

Scripture

Tradition

Today, I would rearrange the order.

Scripture

Reason

General Revelation

Experience

Emotions

Tradition

[OneLight]

No, I don't mind. I added more of an explanation to what Tradition is. If anyone has any questions about any of the meanings, please ask, so we all can be on the same page. I have a tendency of not being clear enough at times. Again, there is no right nor wrong.

[Believer1997]

We each have built our theology a certain way, developing from what is important to us. Here is a list of ways that we can gather our information to base our theology on. Reading them over, I am curious as to how each of us places the importance. If you read them and decide that you have more then one choice for a number, say you have two that you see the same importance, then it is OK to list them side by side. You may also choose not to include one or more.

Keep in mind that this is meant for each of us to better understand how we come to accept our beliefs and is not meant for debate. There is no right or wrong way, no grades.

In the following, the terms mean:

Scripture - the bible

Tradition - Religious information that has been handed down to us from various sources. (How the Apostles acted, creeds, etc.)

Reason - Information that comes through the human mind

[EricH]

1. Scripture

2. General Revelation

3. Reason

4. Tradition

1,000,0000. Experience

1,000,000,000,000,000. Emotions

[Guest man]

1. Scripture, Reason, General Revelation, Experience, Emotions.

[hillsong_girl]

Hmmm that is a tough question, because I am not 100% sure how I would answer. I guess, my impulsive answer would be this:

I would say Scripture is the most important...but without Reason, General Revelation, Experience, Tradition, and Emotions, how would I understand Scripture or rather would I have come to accept Scripture? I can't be sure. I would say a combination of General Revelation and Experience paved the way for me to embrace Scripture...and Reason has helped me understand and stay firm...while Tradition has just opened my mind.

Wonder if that made any sense

[damo1]

i can add to this

when i was young and living in yugoslavia it was religon and traditions

when i was saved i strugled as religon and the way i was brought up by my mothers parents who were catholics and my fathers father who was an orthadox croatian i found it hard to just stick to one side i sort off found my self being pulled part of me wanted to hold on to religon the other part of me wanted to hold on to the traditions that were passed on to me i could not decide

know that i have matured and am stronger in my walk i dont want nothing to do with religon i hate the damage its done in me and in my country

i had to think hard and sit back for a while and hear is my list i was not going to add anything

1 revelation

2 emotions

3 experiance

4 reason

100 % emotions 100 % percent experiance 100 % percent reason

i saw that being religous and holding on to religon was getting me no were

i even saw that the traditions that wer passed on to me i could not decide as a child which way to go i wanted to please my mothers parents who i loved very much and do the right thing to even looking at becoming an alter boy in the croatian catholic church and i loved my fathers father who was my great great grandfather and my fathers mother having two grand mothers and grandfathers i wanted to pleas them both i did not want to get in their bad books love one grandparents ignore your mothers parents and the way they want to bring you up

parts of me wanted to be free from religon and traditions and the other side of me wanted religon and tradition

in my country yugoslavia two groups dont get on with each other orthadox and catholic christians long time ago we did get on but the propaganda that was being ramed down our throats we had to decide and as a child growing up in a war torn country you did not want to show your father you were a coward

when i was a young christian i stuck to other mens revelations never testing what i was hearing i never even tested the doctrines i accepted until i met a pastor who was matur and realy showed me that he cared for me and wanted me to be the man i am meant to be honestly it was hard it was like a fight was going on inside me weather i am pleasing god or displeasing god thats what it was like for me

the reason i put revelation on the top is due to the way i was raised by my pastor who was an army chaplin he told me to get my own revelation and dont stick to mans revelations learn who god is what his nature is and let gods spirit in you guide you i did not see doctrines in the list one light set up i was also warned what damage doctrine can do in a new christians life

yes their is no right or wrong answer

one light was this like a survey done in your church ? my old pastor did this with us in the sunday morning services and our cell group leaders also did something similar to what you had left

damo1

[Guest]

1- Scripture

1- Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Jeremiah 15:16

1- Revelation

1- That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

Ephesians 1:17

2- Experience

2- The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psalms 23:1-4

2- Emotions

2- And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 6:5

3- Reason

3- Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:18

3- Tradition

3- And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Exodus 34:8

Because As I See Jesus He Just Wows My Spirit

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Galatians 4:6

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PS:

Dear Family

This Kind Of Ordering Just Confuses Me (As If You Couldn't Tell! )

Because In My Life The Word (The Holy Bible) And The WORD (The Revelation Of The Lordship Of The Christ) Came And Comes Into My Heart As A Unit

The LORD Jesus

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

John 15:3

The Holy Testimony

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalms 40:7

The Holy Testimony

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:7

The Holy Bible

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalms 119:11

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Be Blessed Beloved Of The KING

Love, Your Brother Joe

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Joel 2:32