Today there is an attack on the absolute authority of the Bible.
Relative truths rule our lives. What is right for one person may not necessarily be right for another. There is no absolute truth, (which is an absolute statement, fallacy one) we can’t know things for certain (fallacy 2) if there is no absolute truth and we cannot know anything for certain then we cannot know that the bible is true (fallacy 3). What it comes down to is that people do not want their lives to be governed by an outside source. They don’t want the guilt and rules associated with anything but what they set up.
So just what if? What if the Bible is the absolute truth. What if every word written in its pages are real words with real meanings? What if you can know for certain that the Bible is authoritative? What if your life can be governed by God through his word?
I think those what ifs scare people. Those what ifs mean that we have to change the way we do things. Those what ifs mean that we’ve done it wrong for a long time and we have to go back and start from scratch. Those what ifs mean we’ve screwed up. Read this passage from 1 Corinthians. If the bible is true, and what this says is true then we are all kicked out of the church. Not just you, not just me, the pastors, the secretaries, the communications people, the worship leaders, the deacons, the sunday school teachers. We’ve been to busy pointing fingers at the world. That’s not our job, we’re supposed to point fingers at ourselves.
1 Corinthians 5
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I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people–10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler–not even to eat with such a one.12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?13 God judges those outside. Purge the evil person from among you.
