I am asked regularly about why I am convinced that the bible is true. One of the arguments that I repeatedly deal with is with the authorship of scripture. Liberal scholars are convinced that many books of the New Testament where not written by the book's namesake. Those same skeptics often identify themselves as Christians and suggest that, regardless of authorship, there is truth to be found in the scripture. I beg to differ. Consider this passage from I John...
We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us. We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. I John 1:1-3
The author of I John states that he has seen, touched, and heard Jesus. This is not hearsay. He is writing from experience. If he is not John, if he is an author writing under the name to simple give his work credibility, he is a liar. That means anything else he writes is suspect. You cannot put value, much less your life, in the word of a liar. To do so would be sheer foolishness.
So I ask you not to deceive yourself. The Bible is either all true or it is worthless. Our understanding of it may be flawed, there may be issues of translation, but if intentional deceit is included, it has zero value as truth. You can choose one or the other, to believe it fully or deny it as flawed, but you can't have both. Frankly, Scripture doesn't leave that option open to us. It's time to stop kidding ourselves that it does.
Then prepare yourself for the Leviathan:
Job 3:8 "May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan"
Job 41:1-34: "Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?...He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride."
5.Isaiah 27:1: "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
How about a cockatrice?
Jermiah 8:17:"For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD."
- isaiah 11:8:"And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den."
- isaiah 59:5:"They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper."
- isaiah 14:29:"Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."
Not to mention the fiery flying serpent. There is more to believing in the Bible than just believing in Jesus. There are unicorns, sea monsters, behemoths, dragons and wierd snakes and that is without touching Revelations.
Posted by: Troy | June 29, 2010 at 03:37 PM