Dr H.. said:
The phrase, ?thinking outside the box? is commonly used in our vernacular to describe those who refuse to be limited by traditional or conventional thinking. The box represents anything that limits or confines what we believe to be in the realm of possibility.
Consider and it is the Bible as God?s Text Book, His Written Word that leads us back to Him or Salvation. The problem is God has not / did not departed from us, we abandoned Him thru Adam and Eve. Thus, we have the word {Bible} of God, to redirect us back to him. The Bible is no more than a ?roadmap? that take us back home, because we were ?and some still are? lost. Contained within the bible ?The box, instructions, container, life line, blood line? is what God prescribes as the remedy for spiritual healing. God is the doctor and we are his patients.
Thus, the bible is the ?Box? when you start living or thinking outside of what God has prescribed thru [His word / Instructions] for us as a medication, to heal us and bring us back to spiritual and physical health. We will remain sick, thus our bodies are not able to heal, allowing all types of infections [Sin] to enter and control our bodies.
True, we can ?Think Outside The Box? on certain ways way of spreading the gospel ?TV, Radio, Newspapers and so on? Why, because God said ?The Great Commission? he did not say how, but do it. However, when it comes to requirements, he did not leave those wide open, for us to do, as we like. When He say baptized, He means be baptized, not sprinkled. When He said ?Repent? that?s exactly what He mean, He did not say report, because you got caught. When He designed the requirements for a ?Preacher or Bishop? that?s exactly what he mean?s. I am sure God?s knows the different between a man and a woman. After all he is the creator. God, told Noe (Noah) to use ?Gopher Wood? why, because God knew exactly what he wanted and what type of wood was best suited for the flood. Then he told Noe, to pitch it within and without [Pitch is Tar]. What if Noe said, ?God, I am going to ?Think Outside the Box or Your Word and use Tree Bark. Then I am going to use cork and not pitch? Now in your opinion, do you think the Ark would float or served God?s purpose? Absolutely not, ask yourself why. The same hold true for the OT sacrifices of animals, God had specific requirements and if you disobeyed God, you were struck down or stoned to death.
In the NT under the Gospel, God continues to have specific requirements. And when you start ?Thinking Outside the Box or Gospel? you are disobeying God. God said
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster ? Gal. 3:24, 25.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye. Acts 7:51
God gave us the OT and examples of what happen to Israel, so we do not make the same mistakes. What was Israel mistakes, disobedience or ?Thinking Outside of the Box / Law?
I do not, understand why people are making God's word, so hard to understand. Paul told Timothy, that a child can understand God's word. A child "Hebrew" was someone from 5 - 12 years old. So are folks saying that their IQ or level of understanding, is less than that of a 12 year old child. This is redicilous, how can an adult,not know the difference between a man and a woman. God Forbid.
