But What About the Weird Parts? - Tuesday June 30, 2015
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 ESV
Is the Bible true? What about the weird parts with talking animals or walking on water or people living to be 900 years old? For many people in our day and age, that's not the hardest stuff to accept in the Bible. Often more difficult are things like, "God created the heavens and the earth," or "Humanity is sinful and wicked," or "God has a plan for gender and sexuality," or "God tells us how to raise our kids," or "Your money, house, car, career, vacations and retirement are not the most important things to wrap your life around." Are those statements true?
In our day and age of increasing rejection of the Bible, the veracity of the Bible is one of the most important questions we can wrestle with as Christians. Today's verse states plainly that God's word is a light. As our world is rejecting it more frequently, we can expect things to be darker. The world hates the Bible. It loves its darkness.
Here is a viewpoint from a person who identifies himself as a Christian. David Lose is a professor at Luther Seminary, the largest Lutheran (ELCA) seminary in America. He said this: "At no place in its more than 30,000 verses does the Bible claim that it is factually accurate in terms of history, science, geography and all other matters." Wow!
I read news articles, entertainment stories, science stories, and current events all the time. Frequently I see articles undermining or attacking the things I read in the Bible. People are rejecting the light of God's Word and embracing the darkness. In the coming days we'll be examining seven reasons why the whole Bible is true.
Submitted by:
Josh Whitney
Frontline 2014
Is the Whole Bible True?,
One-Year Reading Plan:
2 Kings 17:1-18:12
Acts 20:1-38
Psalms 148:1-14
Proverbs 18:6-7
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