Bible Truth
As
C. S. Lewis said about Jesus’ claims (i.e. he is either a lunatic, a liar or
Lord), something similar could be said about the choices we face when we
consider the book in which those claims are recorded. Either the Bible is a
collection of error-laced letters penned by delusional authors who thought they
saw and heard things that never really happened, adding interpretations of
would-be events which they believed, but which had no correspondence with
reality. Or the book is a shrewdly crafted hoax intended to mislead people to
believe in things that the authors knew were not accurate or true. Or the Bible
is a record of God’s revelation, penned by the means of honest men of sound
mind who did not, and would not, embellish or distort the revelation they were
conveying. The latter is precisely the claim that is repeatedly embedded
throughout the record. Peter summarized, “no prophecy of Scripture came about
by the prophet’s own interpretation, for prophecy never had its origin in the
will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy
Spirit” (2Pet.1:20-21). If they thought
God was speaking through them but he in fact was not, instead they were
delusional, then we would all be wise to throw away our Bibles and run the
other way! Likewise, if the authors were
trying to pull one over on us, we should be discerning enough to reject this
band of liars and never again expose ourselves or our families to this kind of
fraud. But if God was using them to expose his revealed truth, then we ought to
be careful to read, study, memorize and meditate on their words for in reality
then, they are the words of God (1Th.2:13).
-Pastor Mike
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