Berean Christians stood out specially, uniquely and forever in the entire recorded history of the early Church era or the early Christians for two very important and exemplary reasons:(i). Their personal attitude toward the Holy Scriptures and (ii). Their personal attitude toward Apostle Paul who was the giant apostle, the major New Testament Scripture writer, the great teacher of the Holy Scriptures and a roving evangelist at that time.
What did these group of Christians do differently from the other Christians in the early Church to deserve a first-class position in the kingdom of God and for their personal Christian life experiences to be documented boldly in gold, in the forefront and forever in the New Testament Bible as the standard divine guidance to the entire Church Age and dispensation?
Berean Christians were all devoted daily students of the Holy Scriptures. Berean Christians searched their own Scriptures daily to personally discover the biblical truth from the Holy Scriptures for themselves. Berean Christians put the Holy Scriptures above any and all the teachers of the Holy Scriptures including Apostle Paul who was one of the authors that wrote most of the Epistles of the New Testament Bible. They also made the Holy Scriptures their only final authority on all doctrinal matters, instead of the teachings or the dogmas of great men of God and Church denominations.
Berean Christians were always prepared and ready to confront and to challenge any heretic teachers and the unbiblical doctrine or teachings of those false teachers with the divine truth that they already knew already from their own personal perusal or private studies of the Holy Scriptures. Berean Christians accepted the Holy Scriptures to be the only final guiding light to their own Christian journey of faith instead of the teachings of men. Berean Christians believed the word of God primarily not because Paul the great Apostle said it or taught it, but because "it is written in the Holy Scriptures". Berean Christians did not believe any teaching or doctrine that had no Scriptural roots and foundations from the Holy Scriptures.
Are you a Berean Christian today or you are simply a follower of the teachings of men and the Church denominations or organizations? Do you even search your own Scriptures personally to know the biblical truth for yourself and to verify the veracity of the teachings of your pastors and Church organizations? Do you just believe anything that these men of God teach or preach today without judging them biblically? What do you do personally in the face of heresies and unbiblical teachings of men and Church denominations as a Christian? Is your Christianity built on the sound biblical truth and doctrine or on the teachings of men and Church denominations that are unscriptural in origin?
“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable woman which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.” - Acts of the Apostles 17:10-12.
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