“Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who heart it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near” (Revelation 1:3).
“I have no problems with the Bible,” some people say. “It’s just those hard parts – parts about judgment, doom, damnation, exclusion – that I have problems with.”
Ever hear that?
If you only believe in the parts of the Bible that you like and reject the parts you don’t like and that are hard, it’s not God you believe in. You believe in yourself.
The Bible is God’s word. All of it. If you don’t like it, the problem is not with God but with us. If you don’t understand it, then it’s our responsibility to work and study until we do get it. The Bible doesn’t change to meet us where we are. We are to change to the standards God presents to us in the Bible.
When we are at odds with the Bible, the problem doesn’t lie in the Bible. It’s our rebellion.
When we put ourselves over the authority of God’s word, we put ourselves as a higher authority than God.
Good luck with that.
We submit to the authority of the Bible because it is God’s word to us. We submit by standing under the authority of God’s word. When we stand under the authority of God’s word, we begin understanding the world God has created.
Praxis: Faith in Action 