Jesus for salvation, and yet many of them don’t believe the rest of the Bible. How can that be? They choose (or said they did) to believe Jesus died for their sins, but yet they believe nothing else He said (such as Matthew 24 speaking of some of the events to come in the Tribulation, as more fully expounded upon in Daniel and Revelation, as well as much OT prophecy).
What kind of “Jesus” do they actually believe in? Certainly not the One in scripture: the One who has revealed Himself to us in His word. No, they’ve made up in their own minds their idea of whom they think Jesus should be — the suffering, mild-mannered Lamb who came to die on the cross for our sins. Many of them don’t even believe He was buried and rose three days later. They don’t realize He is also the Lion from the tribe of Judah who will come back with fierce wrath upon an evil and disbelieving world; His eyes as a flame or fire, His vesture dipped in blood (and this time not His own precious blood). Neither do they believe that He’s coming to smite the nations, that He Himself is going to tread the “winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”
No, they don’t want to hear about those attributes. To them it’s even foreign that He called the Pharisees and Sadducees “vipers” and “white sepulchers full of dead men’s bones.” They don’t know that He overthrew the moneychangers’ tables in the temple. To them, He never judged — never raised His voice and rebuked unsound doctrine. Why? Because they’ve never read the Bible themselves.
They don’t know Christ; they only know a figment of their imagination. They’ve latched onto a “don’t judge” verse taken out of context (speaking of hypocrisy of those who do the same things) and attempted to apply it to other Christians. They couldn’t find the verse themselves, but rather have heard it from one of their false teachers who spew false doctrines that their itching ears want to hear — mere fables (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
And that’s where we are today. Those who think the Bible is to be seen as an “a la carte” pick- and-choose menu from which they may choose what they want to believe (.0000001%) and discard the rest. Or worse, they apply pre-cross doctrine to a post-cross world — not having a clue what it was or wasn’t written to and what is about them and what is not — not even having a clue why the cross was necessary and vital to comprehend.
They don’t want to hear the rest of God’s word when it isn’t pleasing to the flesh, and definitely not something that’s going to convict of sin. They scream “shut up” if you post a Bible verse. Freedom of speech (to them) means freedom FROM speech that offends and convicts their conscience. They want to shut down anything that doesn’t soothe and coddle them. They want to continue on in sin. Romans 1:18-32 and 2 Timothy 3:1-7, 13 foretold this would be the case. Here we are, and the world has been lulled to sleep by the devil.
For a few thousand years the devil has used the “cast doubt” approach which started in the garden when the serpent said to Eve… “Yea, hath God said?” That slimy serpent wanted to cast doubt on God’s word. He’s used that tactic for a long time. But now? He doesn’t even need to use that tactic. People don’t know what God’s word says, even though it’s available to them in every known format. Instead they don’t just doubt; they don’t believe the Bible altogether, even though they’ve never read it themselves, as if they somehow know more than God who created all things.
What kind of “Jesus” do they actually believe in? Certainly not the One in scripture: the One who has revealed Himself to us in His word. No, they’ve made up in their own minds their idea of whom they think Jesus should be — the suffering, mild-mannered Lamb who came to die on the cross for our sins. Many of them don’t even believe He was buried and rose three days later. They don’t realize He is also the Lion from the tribe of Judah who will come back with fierce wrath upon an evil and disbelieving world; His eyes as a flame or fire, His vesture dipped in blood (and this time not His own precious blood). Neither do they believe that He’s coming to smite the nations, that He Himself is going to tread the “winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”
No, they don’t want to hear about those attributes. To them it’s even foreign that He called the Pharisees and Sadducees “vipers” and “white sepulchers full of dead men’s bones.” They don’t know that He overthrew the moneychangers’ tables in the temple. To them, He never judged — never raised His voice and rebuked unsound doctrine. Why? Because they’ve never read the Bible themselves.
They don’t know Christ; they only know a figment of their imagination. They’ve latched onto a “don’t judge” verse taken out of context (speaking of hypocrisy of those who do the same things) and attempted to apply it to other Christians. They couldn’t find the verse themselves, but rather have heard it from one of their false teachers who spew false doctrines that their itching ears want to hear — mere fables (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
And that’s where we are today. Those who think the Bible is to be seen as an “a la carte” pick- and-choose menu from which they may choose what they want to believe (.0000001%) and discard the rest. Or worse, they apply pre-cross doctrine to a post-cross world — not having a clue what it was or wasn’t written to and what is about them and what is not — not even having a clue why the cross was necessary and vital to comprehend.
They don’t want to hear the rest of God’s word when it isn’t pleasing to the flesh, and definitely not something that’s going to convict of sin. They scream “shut up” if you post a Bible verse. Freedom of speech (to them) means freedom FROM speech that offends and convicts their conscience. They want to shut down anything that doesn’t soothe and coddle them. They want to continue on in sin. Romans 1:18-32 and 2 Timothy 3:1-7, 13 foretold this would be the case. Here we are, and the world has been lulled to sleep by the devil.
For a few thousand years the devil has used the “cast doubt” approach which started in the garden when the serpent said to Eve… “Yea, hath God said?” That slimy serpent wanted to cast doubt on God’s word. He’s used that tactic for a long time. But now? He doesn’t even need to use that tactic. People don’t know what God’s word says, even though it’s available to them in every known format. Instead they don’t just doubt; they don’t believe the Bible altogether, even though they’ve never read it themselves, as if they somehow know more than God who created all things.
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