Today’s scripture: 1 Thessalonians 2:13
What do you believe about the Bible? Is it just a book with a lot of stories?
Or a book with some good advice, but no more important than any other book? Or
a book with some truth, some words to live by, but with a lot of irrelevancy?
Or do you believe it to be the inspired, inerrant word of God?
I guess my thought is either you believe the Bible to be God’s word or you
don’t. To take bits and pieces and reject the rest seems so odd to me. If God
is the sovereign of all creation, then He certainly worked through the pens of
men to create a written documentation for us to know more of whom He is.
God breathed His truth through the writers, and He breathed His truth through
those who gathered the books into what we now know as the Holy Bible.
Many people don’t necessarily have a problem with the idea of God’s inspiration
of the Bible, but the idea of inerrancy doesn’t sit well … throughout the ages
and with all the translations, there must be errors, they say. Inerrancy defined
means there were no errors in the original manuscripts. And yes, as fallible
man copied the original manuscripts, some fractional errors may have occurred.
But again, if God is sovereign, if He is all-powerful, all-knowing,
all-present, then don’t you think He guided the pens of the scribes? And don’t
you think that if any error entered a copy, it was so minor so as not to make
any real difference in His final message?
Believe what you will about the Bible. But if you believe it to be God’s word,
then believe it to be God’s word.
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