Time To Abandon The Bible?

 

Most of us cannot abide thieves. Borrowing is one thing; stealing is something else. All moral codes and governmental laws condemn stealing, and all just societies punish those who engage in such. And rightly so! There is an insidious worldwide thievery going on, of which many are totally unaware: Bible Stealing! There are persons whose aim is the theft of God’s Word. They are robbers of truth, stealers of Scriptures, thieves of Divine revelation. “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor” (Jeremiah 23:30).

Let’s turn the clock back to 2009 when the headlines read: “President Patronizes Bible-Believers: ‘Give up your worn arguments and old attitudes.’” At a recent White House celebration of Gay Pride Month, our President told a group of homosexual activists he hopes to persuade those of us who believe homosexuality is immoral to give up our antiquated views and accept their agenda (an agenda which includes redefining marriage and criminalizing speech which condemns homosexuality). Mr. Obama said, “There are good and decent people in the country who don’t yet fully embrace their gay brothers and sisters – not yet” adding, “There are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors and friends or even family members and loved ones, who still hold fast to worn arguments and old attitudes.” He also said Congress should repeal what he referred to as “the-so-called” Defense of Marriage Act. Past Presidents of our great nation extolled Biblical morality and unabashedly regarded respect for that moral code as essential to the wellbeing of our Republic. But the current occupant of the Oval Office (2009 & 2022) – who once contemptuously characterized his opponents as irrational, frustrated, jingoistic racists who “cling to religion” – now openly patronizes all who take the Bible seriously. Obama has stated he believed Jesus endorsed homosexuality in the Sermon on the Mount and the Bible texts condemning homosexual behavior are “obscure” and irrelevant.

Almost without exception, Hollywood portrays Christians as weird or uneducated people on television and in the movies. But history tells a very different story. When one recalls the “Who’s Who” of history and science, the vast majority believed in God and that the Bible is God’s Word. These include Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington Carver, Louis Pasteur, Daniel Webster, General George Patton, and Ronald Reagan, among many others that could be listed. President George Washington said, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible…He is worse than an infidel who does not read his Bible and acknowledge his obligation to God.”

To the ignorance and denial of our past and present Presidents, and many others notwithstanding, the Bible unequivocally teaches marriage is a Divine institution, the union of one man and one woman for life (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6), and that homosexual behavior is shameful (Romans 1:24-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10). While we are all sinners in need of God’s grace and should treat all with love and compassion, we cannot “fully embrace” an evil and destructive agenda which denies God’s plan. Times have changed, and in the names of “tolerance” and “progress” many want to cast the Bible aside as dated and passe. But one does so at their own peril. I for one am not ashamed to be among those who “hold fast” to God’s Word. Old? Yes. Outdated? Never. Nations rise and fall; Presidents come and go; but “the Word of God abides forever” (Isaiah 40:6-8; 1 Peter 1:25).