God speaks to us through the Bible
Ever since man has walked the earth, the devil has caused people to question whether God has spoken or not. Genesis 3:1 says, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said,…” There was no doubt in the mind of the woman that God spoke, but the devil began to twist the Words that God spoke. And throughout history he has been very successful in causing man to question the Bible as being the Word of God.
The Bible claims that God has spoken to man through the prophets. Hebrews 1:1-2a says, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…” Christianity has always taught and believed that the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation is the inspired, inerrant (without errors) Word of God.
God has spoken through 66 books that were written over a period of time of 2000 years by different authors that had different authors, and that lived throughout different times. He spoke to man in various ways, that is, through vision’s, symbol’s, parables, and through an audible voice, but man fails to believe this.
The devil has caused his children to boldly proclaim their unbelief in the Bible. For example, the famous God bashing and un-politically incorrect celebrity Bill Maher has said that, “I’m not an atheist. There’s a really big difference between an atheist and someone who just doesn’t believe in religion. Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
But I’m not an atheist, no.” I believe there’s some force. If you want to call it God... I don’t believe God is a single parent who writes books. I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish. What they’re fighting about in the Middle East, it’s so childish. These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that they take over this little space in Jerusalem where one guy flew up to heaven no, no, this guy performed a sacrifice here a thousand million years ago. It’s like, “Who cares? What does that have to do with spirituality, where you’re really trying to get, as a human being and as a soul moving in the universe?” But I do believe in a God, yes.” (From a June 07, 2006 article titled Bill Maher takes on Religion in New Documentary in SlashFilm).
What the devil has also been very successful in doing is that he has also caused some who claim to believe in God to compromise the infallibility of Scripture. Such people believe that only parts of the Bible are inspired and not all of it. But once again, that is a compromising position. And I dare write that those who take that position have not right in calling themselves Christians, much less pastors, or whatever spiritual title makes them feel holier than all.
Since the Bible claims that it is without errors and inspired by God, but if it has errors, then it is not inspired by God at all. If we cannot trust in it with a certain topic, then we cannot trust in it at all.
Rangel is the senior pastor of Borderland Calvary Chapel. The address is 299 E. Heywood St. San Benito. You may reach him at (956) 399-3534. More info at at www.borderlandcc.org
