"For the word that God speaks is alive and full of power; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12). The Bible is the Word of God, and according to the book of John it is God, we must take God seriously and not look at the Bible as a man made tool; because "every scripture is God-breathed, given by His inspiration, and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, and for training in righteousness." (2Timothy 3:16). The Bible is the Word of God, literally. It is not just some old book that has survived the ages and kept it's spot on the "#1 Most Sold" list.
Why do we have to take the word seriously? This is why. John 1:1 says, "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The Word was God. How? Because the Word is Jesus Christ. How do we know that? John 1:14 says, "the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." Over in Revelations 19:13, it describes Jesus. "He is dressed in a robe dyed by dipping in blood, and the title by which He is called is The Word of God." Jesus is the Word of God in flesh. They are not separate, they are they same.
So we have clarified that the Bible is the Word, and the Word is Jesus Christ. They are the same. Now, this is not the only reason why we must take the word seriously. In John 1:14, he said that the Word came from the Father, "full of grace and truth." The word must be full of truth. It must be fully true. In John 14:6 Jesus says that He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the truth, not a truth or some truth, but the truth. If Jesus is truth, that means that the Bible must be truth. If any part of Jesus was not truth, He could not honestly say that He is the truth. If we believe that we have everlasting life in Jesus Christ, we must believe that He is total truth and that the Bible, because it is the Word, is total truth as well. 2 Peter 1:16 says, "we did not follower cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty." We must believe that Jesus Christ is total truth, and that the Word is total truth as well. The Bible is Jesus Christ and is truth.
Lately, I have been seeing people make things on the internet saying things like, "well that verse was from hundreds of years ago, there is no way it still stands today," or "well we have modern technology so it's fine to not follow that book. They had no idea what they were talking about. We are more advanced now." or even, "Well I don't believe in the Old Testament, but I believe in the New one." We must believe in the Bible as a whole! We cannot do a lunch line special saying, "I'll have a little Genesis, none of the Exodus of Leviticus. I'll have a bunch of Matthew and John. Give me a corner piece of Acts and hold the Revelations." We must accept the Bible as a whole truth or a partial truth. The Bible is truth as a whole. Not believing in all of it would be like having a long, correct, math equation and only copying down parts of it. It is all or nothing!
If we believe that any one part of the Bible is false, we are believing that Jesus is not fully true, and that disqualifies everything because if Jesus claims to be the truth, either He is or He is not. If we can say, "well a guy and a girl can sleep together before getting married now because we have the pill and it's normal now," then we are saying that Jesus is not truth and we have disqualified our Salvation. How can we do that? Well, Jesus claimed to be the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If any one part of Him is false, the statement is false, and we are following imperfection, and only perfection meets the standards to wash all of our sins away forever. So, by believing that ever one chapter in the Bible is false, you are saying that Jesus Christ is false and not truly God, and if He is not truly God, then He is imperfect and could not have died for our sins and we are hopeless sinners who will all go to Hell.
It is imperative that we take the Bible seriously. It is the Word of God. It is not just some old book. It is living, active, and fully true. To believe that Jonah and the great fish did not happen is to believe that God is not capable of creating a big enough fish or working a miracle. To believe that the Old Testament is false is to discredit Jesus when He referred to Job as a living historical person or that God did not have the power to create everything in His own way. To believe only some laws of the Bible and ignore the rest is to say that God is not all powerful or worthy to be respected because His laws are optional and He is not important enough to give full respect to.
The Word of God is powerful, it is living, and it is truth. To believe anything less is to say that Jesus was a liar, and that is saying that God is imperfect, and if God is imperfect, why are we worshiping Him?
-D
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