Deconstruction

There should be a VERY safe place for anyone to break down their beliefs, review what they’ve been taught and investigate those claims. The Bible itself encourages this - that we search the scriptures to determine truth. Ask questions, investigate the Bible in its totality.

BUT…

This process errors in a few major ways:

Don’t base that process on what humans have said, or what humans have done, or filter through some lens of harm someone has done to you (real or imaginary). We’re not taught to base our belief based on an experience with fallen man. That would be foolish, and we’d have no confidence in ANYTHING if our criteria is some sort of perfection in the human condition. This process MUST be based on what scripture says. That alone is our guiding light; men and women are broken sinners, God’s word is not.

I see over and over and over again, explanations of deconstruction tied to something of the following soup of ingredients: How someone “feels”, what their “heart” says, what their life “experience” has taught them. Or more commonly, that someone felt they had a bad experience, was harmed by someone or some thing in the church.

Providing some false rabbit trail of having been wronged and feeling that they couldn’t ask hard questions in the “church”.

Truth is not what we want to be true, what we feel to be true or what we hope to be true.

To be clear, any of these thoughts/feelings/harm are real issues. This is not a commentary on me disagreeing that those things happened. I’m sure they did. But we must seek truth outside of how someone made us feel. These are feelings of men and women, not objective truth from God’s word (which itself claims to be)