<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]If there is going to be error in our understanding of these things, I think it safer to error on the side that gives us the greater sense of personal responsibility.</font><hr></blockquote><p>I agree and disagree at the same time. You are right in saying, right after this above statement, that our responsibility is so important, but I don't think it is safer to be in error on the side that de-emphasizes the work of God in a person's life. Personally, I think it is safer to give God too much glory, if that is possible, than to not give Him enough.<br><br>I go to this Bible study on Monday nights, and we started a study of James. This verse really stuck out to me and goes along with what I have just said.<blockquote>[color:green]Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creation.</font color=green> James 1:18 (ESV)</blockquote>James is here writing and saying that we, we being Christians, were created by God in worship to God. Let me rephrase that in case it is misunderstood. God created mankind as an act of worship to Himself. Or another way, God was worshipping Himself when He created people. And the firstfruits are the Christians, hence why James says we. Christians are this kind of firstfruits. <br><br>I quoted that to say that if God creats things as an act of self-worship, than who are we to take away glory from God or to give less emphasis on God's work to give man a larger sense of meaning? Man's meaning is simple, as the Westminster Larger Catechism states, [color:purple]"Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy Him forever."</font color=purple> Fully being a very key word in that statement. To glorify God and completely enjoy Him. We can't completely enjoy God if we are not emphasising Him and what He does.
