Let me tell you that you should never get your Biblical teaching from a TikTok video. I can’t tell you the numerous times I have come across so-called Christians who have a “prophetic word” to share. Others will give you their opinions and views about some Biblical issue. If you do watch these videos don’t do it as a means to find answers but keep it as an entertainment.
I have never posted a TikTok video and I have only commented once. I watched a video of a guy who was an “expert” and was telling his view about the Bible when Jesus returns with believers that have died before and return to be reunited with their bodies. He said that when that reunion takes place that our bodies would be “gloried bodies”. (Yet, it’s a pretty deep theology there) My question to him was what form our bodies would be before that time. His response to my question was “we aren’t told”. Well, there you go. It was a half truth or half answered. I’m not sure which one but I certainly don’t base any credibility to that.
If you want answers, don’t go to social media but go directly to the source. Study it for yourself. Don’t be lazy and watch someone’s video. No wonder people get so confused. Go to sources you trust to be reliable. The problem with social media is that people can find any study or “expert” to back up their opinion. If you want to “prove” that the earth is flat you can find studies to back up your opinion and posts on social media to support it.
2 Timothy 2:15 cautions us:
Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.
Why do we fall for these things? Because they are easy and we get lazy. Finding answers to our questions take effort on our part. Not many people enjoy studying the Bible and discerning what it says about something. Unfortunately too many people will quote scriptures without actually studying the context of what it really means. For instance people will tell you that God wants us to “be fruitful and multiply” because it’s in the Bible but that was after the flood and Noah’s family was tasked with re-populating the earth. So, we get too lazy and take something without putting the work behind understanding.
I have learned that it is important that we should rightly divide God’s Word. What that means is that we take the time to study it and discovering what it means. Sometimes it’s easy but many times it isn’t. It’s like I have said many times, you can just quote a Bible verse without reading the verses around it, who wrote it and understanding the cultural background of when it was written.
TikTok videos are entertaining but shouldn’t be a source of our study. In the times that we live it is so important that we are disciplined and don’t fall for every wind of doctrine that is out there on social media. Let’s put down the phone and spend some time in prayer. Prayer will clear our heads where social media will only create noise in our minds.
