What Is This Attack Upon The Bible?

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you,

 and persecute you, and shall say all manner 

of evil against you falsely. Rejoice, and be 

exceeding glad; for great is your reward 

in heaven: for so persecuted they the 

prophets which were before you.

Matthew 5:11-12 

     The claim that the Bible claims is so high of a claim that it is no wonder that the Bible has been and is attacked. In fact, you too, especially those who hold Authentic Christian Faith, are attacked as well. Is this attack fair? Fair is fair when all things of the same subject are attacked or treated equally. This we do not find in our world. Remember: God is not fair: He is JUST! Liberal preachers and teachers who object to plenary inspiration of the Bible due to their belief as to errors in the Bible might be right, or they might be wrong. Any discussion on this matter must be conducted on the proper ground. A problem that I have found is that many will not ask the question. It is not necessarily the question, rather it is the answer. So, those who will not ask the question and do not want to have an answer because it might not agree with what they now believe will "dance" around the question and prefer their theories of inspiration, and even their theories as to the dictation of the Bible. What is more often found in such Churches under this type of teaching and preaching is that they fall under a superstitious use of the Bible and make it more of a talisman, or something similar. Do those liberal preachers and teachers say that the Bible is divine? Yes! Do they say that the Bible is more divine because it is the more human? Is this not edifying? Maybe! Appearances are deceptive! We are told to examine our faith: "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not our own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates" (2Corinthians 13:5). Or: "Test all things; hold fast to that which is good" (1Thessalonians 5:21). If the Bible is full of error, as many of the liberal teachers and preachers teach, and then to say it is divine is just to say that God is a name for the course of the world with all its imperfections and all its sins. This is a "pantheizing" of the word "divine." And then to say they worship the God of truth: is this not confusing; and is this not speaking out both sides of the mouth? Yes! 

     There are many Christians that do not hold to plenary inspiration that are liberal, and also this is true of some who are Authentic Christians. Within the Church, both liberal and non-liberal people there are those who do believe that the origin of Christianity is not a mere evolution of thought about God, and that they do hold that they depend upon salvation and that salvation comes not by their own efforts, and rely on the atoning blood of Jesus Christ upon the cross. These people accept the central message of eh Bible and here comes the difference between Liberal thought and Authentic belief. There are those who only believe that the Bible is nothing more than that the message is merely on the basis of some trustworthy men who have some sort of authority and were unaided by any supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. There is a dichotomy of thought for there are those who hold to a belief that the Bible is right at its central core, in its account of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, and yet believe that it contains many errors. Many of these people are not liberal, they are Authentic Christians and have accepted the true message upon which Christianity depends. There is a great chasm between them that separates them from those who reject the supernatual work of God with those which Christianity stands or falls. 

     Is the view of Authentic Christianity as to the plenary inspiration of the Bible tenable? Well, Jesus Christ certainly held a high view of the Bible, that which is being rejected. Here is a question: Is all this negative that is so emphatic as to the Bible give warrant and rise to such concessions be justified by the facts? If a person, a Christian, even an Authentic Christian makes full use of their privileges, they do have a Bible or can find one easily, he/she will find that the Bible is the seat of authority and will find and will come to the place where they regard the Bible as no ore word of man, but as the very word of God.

I will worship toward Thy holy temple,

     and praise Thy name for Thy livingkindness

and for Thy truth: for Thou hast magnified

    Thy word above all Thy name.

                         Psalm 138:2

Examine your faith; your belief by Scripture

Richard L. Crumb