Taking Bible seriously

The sadness and the tragedy of this fact is that some within Christianity do not believe that God created us in His own image. To say the Bible is not all literal factual and should not be taken seriously. What a strange paradox! The Christian free-thinkers saying that the Bible should not be taken seriously. The Bible is THE BOOK which the Word of God is speaking life to my soul. Strange indeed that some Christians have the idea that the Word of God can only be serious when they consider the areas they THINK should be serious. Those who hold the Word of God as a wonderful revelation, indeed, and a trustworthy guide. We need to be aware always that if we do not keep the Word of God on our side because more Christians will one day do not believe every word in the Bible. It is up to us. What do we sincerely will to do with God and His revealed Word? What is the Church in biblical perspective? Sadly, many denominations are not looking at from the biblical perspective. Whatever keeps Christians from the Bible is a serious threat to Christianity. There are Christians with sharp minds but limited outlook who saw one truth and, unable to relate it to other truths, became narrow unbelievers, devoutly cultivating their tiny plot, naively believing that their own theories are better than God.

The Bible is an organic unity, one with itself throughout, and must be received in toto or in toto rejected. I dare not select the parts I want to believe and exclude what disturbs or offends me. That would be to set up my fallible reason as a criterion against which to judge infallible revelation, obviously in itself an unreasonable thing to do. While it is true that I stand before the Bible to be judged and not the Bible before me; while it is true that I am morally obliged to accept the Holy Scriptures and by the light they afford prepare myself so the Holy Scriptures may accept me, as a serious-minded and responsible thinker I must admit that it is sometimes difficult to know precisely what the Scriptures teach on a given subject. When once we know, we must accept and believe; until we know we can maintain our moral integrity only by admitting our ignorance; and that very ignorance itself obliges us to search the Word in prayerful reverence until the light breaks and our doubts are cleared away. A.W Tozer