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The Simple, Plain Reading of the Bible

Boy In Field w Book by Madalin Calita from Pixabay

Theologians today have a hard time just believing the Bible as it is written.

As in believing the simple, straight-forward interpretation of God’s words.

As if, God actually meant what He inspired. That He meant it to be understood simply. And to be believed it is without error.

And without the any theological twisting of His meaning into some symbolic, analogous, general thought. Instead of the amazing, wonderful truth that He “breathed out” through the writers of His words.

This is a problem all throughout the church today. Not simply among the expected unbelief of the Mainline denominations; who long ago abandoned the literal and straight-forward meaning of God’s words.

But this is also a problem common among those who claim to be born-again, who believe, supposedly, in the word-for-word inerrancy of the written word of God.

We will get just about any kind of interpretation you can think of today. And it continues to get worse and worse.

But in the end, what if, seriously, what if God actually meant what He said? That He used the exact words that conveyed His exact meaning so that those men in the beginning of the world as well as those men in our current age could all understand and stand upon?

What IF He actually spoke the words to convey the meaning which even the most “simple” among us could understand?

Such as the historical account of the earth and creation from the very first words of Genesis.

What IF that historical record might actually be true and accurate?

Despite the vehement contradictions of popular scientific consensus or popular cultural practices or the basic unbelief of the vast majority of supposedly “intellectual” and “academic” and ecclesiastical leaders?

But, of course, what would we do with all those more enlightened theologians who continue to muddy the waters of truth with their commentaries?

What would become of them?

Image by Madalin Calita from Pixabay 

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The Rise of an Ancient False god

Ecola Rocks Mist

There is a group of professed Christians who claim that we can only understand the Bible when it is interpreted through the lens of accepted scientific theory. When it is illuminated by the proper consensus of scientific opinion.

This group is called BioLogos. Here is a sample taken directly from their statement of faith:

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In Memory of Scout

scout

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”  (Romans 8; 18 – 23)

This morning we lost one of our cats. Just as I was getting ready for work, my wife called me to come outside. A car had been going too fast and hit our cat, Scout, trying to cross the street. He died within moments after stumbling back into our yard.

We had Scout for about a year or two. He was born in our garage during the summer. We didn’t even know that he and his other 4 siblings were alive for about 3 weeks after the fact. Misty, the mother, had hidden them way down under a big wooden work bench at the back of the garage. It was only after going into the garage one day to find something that I saw this little fuzz ball staring up at me from behind a pile of junk. And then, one by one, all the others began peering out at me from all different areas!

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Genesis and the Origin of Death

Dog Cliff Warning

More and more I hear of supposed Christians who doubt the literal accuracy of Genesis. They have taken a position that the Bible needs to be interpreted more loosely. That a thinking man cannot be expected to accept a view of the world’s origin that flies in such direct contradiction to popular scientific thought.

The only part of that which I can agree with is that the Biblical record is in direct contradiction to popular scientific thought. Absolutely. There is no meshing of the two together. And I am increasingly irritated by the cowardice of professed believers that cannot decide if the words of God are pure words, allegories, fables, moral stories or historical records.

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Noah and the End of Naturalism

Rainbow

The other night I was watching The Bible in the Beginning. This is the movie made by Dino De Laurentiis back in 1966. It was quite a big deal at the time. My parents took me to see it back when they still had intermissions and even gave out a special program for that movie.

I was not a Christian then. And this was the first time I was really confronted with the realities of the Bible. The church I grew up in taught little of the truth of these things. For example, children were shown illustrations depicting Noah’s ark looking like a big bathtub. And Noah was this old guy with a beard that had a whole boat full of warm, fuzzy animals. Oh, yeah, and there was a lot of water. The end.

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