Something that I wrote a few years ago that seems just as pertinent today as ever! 😦

 First of all, let’s make one thing Absolutely Clear: If there is a God, then the Bible, as we have it today, is HIS Inspired Word!! 

Argument One: It was written by men.

This is, obviously, entirely true! But do you not think that God directed the instrument as it was writing? I Know from personal experience that He does so yet today! When I look at the scores of sermons and articles that I have written through the years that often began with no more than a simple story in my head, and three hours later there exists a full ‘manuscript’, I KNOW it was God guiding my very fingers to type HIS message! WHY would anyone even Consider that the Word was Not ‘Breathed of God’?!

Argument Two: The Books that we have today were all chosen by the Emperor Constantine as a ‘political’ maneuver to consolidate his regime.

Again, partially true: Constantine had been fully converted to Christianity through a Heavenly vision of the Cross. As a result, he decided that it was time to sort through all of the various stories, beliefs, and ‘sects’ that had developed in the three-hundred years since the death & Resurrection of Christ! To accomplish this, he called together All of the religious leaders of the day and had them ‘hash-out’ their differences. So, YES, these were all ‘men’… but do you Not believe that God took a ‘Personal’ interest in the proceedings? Do you not believe that these men of God did not pray before, during, and after each session & ‘Vote’?

Argument Three: The meanings and interpretations of words, phrases, and stories have changed through the millennia.

Can you Really accept the concept of a GOD who doesn’t take into account the passage of time? Yes, there have been ‘cultural’ changes… Yes, there have been ‘technological’ changes and ‘shifts’, if you will… But the MESSAGE of God is FROM God… and that MESSAGE has Never changed!!!

God has personally guided the Writers of His Word as well as those who worked to organize it! He chose a message to be presented that is as applicable to us today as it was 2000 years ago… AND as it will be 2000 years from Now!!To believe Anything else is to deny the Infallibility and Omnipotence of God!!

The Second thing we Must accept is that, If there is a God, there is a Satan!

I don’t anticipate any argument to this. Even if a person denies the existence of God, they cannot deny that there is Evil in the world! They may label it any number of things, but at the heart, it is ‘Evil’. Why, then, is it so difficult to acknowledge that by our very acceptance of ‘Evil’, we also, by default, acknowledge a ‘power’ for ‘Good’? If there is a ‘force’ for ‘Evil’, then there Must also be a force for ‘Good’! God is the ‘Good’… Satan is the ‘Evil’!

So…

“If there is a God, there is a Satan”.

“If there is a God, the Bible is His Inspired Word”.

What do these two statements mean, and how do we apply them to our lives? Consider with me, for a moment… Who benefits from changing or modifying the message of God? NO ONE but Satan! When men try to take messages and words out of context and twist them to mean something other than what God had intended them to mean, who benefits? Again, NO ONE but Satan! ANY message that attempts to rewrite, modify, add to, or detract from the Message of God IS OF SATAN!!! No matter how ‘well-meaning’ it might appear, if it is Not the Word of God, it is of Satan!! It is Really just That Simple!!!

MY God is Not fallible! He asks us to love Him above All others, and to love our neighbors as ourselves… He also gives us some guidelines of things To do… AND some Definite things to Not do! However, MY God Is a Jealous God… He does not ask Much of us… But what He asks, He Demands!! It is NOT given to Any One of US to rewrite His Word on Any account… To do so is nothing short of the handy-work of Satan!