The Unchanging Bible

It's interesting that those who believe the Bible changes with the current social practices always want it to change in favor of their particular anti-Biblical behavior, even while opposing others who would change it in a different manner. Further, it always seems to change to a more liberal theme.

If the Bible were a document that changed meaning, doesn't it stand to reason it would sometimes become more conservative? If we're going to change it, why couldn't we change it to include segregation, or even support slavery? To make certain laws punishable by death without trial? To give a person who feels they've been wronged the right to simply take what they think is theirs?

Crazy? Of course it is. Yet some people support every one of those ideas. Which brings up an important question.

Who gets to decide what changes are made to the meaning of the Bible, anyway? The Pope? Billy Graham? The President? The political party in power? The Supreme Court? The United Nations? Who?

The fact is, if the Bible changes its viewpoint to satisfy whatever people are doing, it's worthless and unnecessary. The whole effort of the Bible is to draw people closer to God, but the idea of a changing Bible merely makes God more like men. Convenient, but hardly fitting the repeatedly expressed purpose of God's word.

There are those who assert that following the Bible, as written, is worshipping the Bible instead of God. They fail to understand there is no real knowledge of God except what is in the Bible. Thus, to worship God correctly and to follow His will correctly, it's necessary to follow the Bible. Without the Bible as truth we are, as the Bible says, the blind leading the blind.

Anyway, how can something be true yesterday and untrue tomorrow? I mean, we're not talking about new discoveries of Biblical truth, we're talking about discarding or changing parts of it.

We discovered that Earth spins on an axis and revolves around the Sun. We discovered the laws of gravity. But we didn’t change those things – they were true all along. Nor does disbelieving them make them less true.

And please don't bring up the Constitution. It's not a truth, it's an agreement. Any agreement can be changed upon the will of the parties involved.

But if the Bible is not true, then God lied, because He said He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And here's the thing – how many times does someone have to lie to be a liar. They can tell you the truth a hundred times, but if they lie to you once, the trust is broken. So if God changes, He can't be trusted and the whole idea of eternal truth and God's word is a bust.

Some people believe just that, of course. But like those who refuse to believe the Earth spins in its axis, what they believe doesn't change what is.

The Bible is either God's word, or it isn't. It is either true or it's a lie. To accept it as the truth means to accept it as written. To suggest any change has occurred in its meaning, or that some part of it is not now relevant, makes it worthless.

Every person must choose for themselves how they deal with those facts. And every person will be held accountable for how they choose.
I Thessalonians 2:13, II Timothy 3:16, Malachi 3:6, James 1:17