Thought For The Day

Surely You Jest

Where do these people come from? Where do they get their information? Does anyone believe them? I don’t know the answer to those first two questions, but I know the last one is answered with a resounding YES, and that is the problem.

Pete Enns, author of The Bible Tells Me So, writes for the Huffington Post an article entitled “Three Way Jesus Read the Bible That Evangelicals Are Told Not To,” in which he makes ridiculous statements and attempts to back them up with silly information.  Let me give you two examples:

1. Jesus didn’t stick to what “the Bible says,” but read it with a creative flare that had little if any connection to what the biblical writer actually meant to say.

2. Jesus felt he could “pick and choose” what parts of the Old Testament were valid and which weren’t.

Here’s an example of one of his silly statements: The “Sermon on the Mount” isn’t really a sermon at all. For one thing no one was bored listening to it. Jesus’s words were a public declaration that, now that he was here, there were going to be a few changes made. [Mr. Enns, you might note the Scripture says, “God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.” (See Hebrews, you really need to study it all)] He is immutable!

I am not sure what Mr. Enns believes the Bible says, but contradicting Jesus is dangerous rhetoric, and I would remind him that Jesus, who is God Incarnate, wrote, by the power of His Spirit, the Old Testament. Why would any competently intellectual individual conclude that He would contradict change, or reject any part of that Truth when He walked among men on Earth? What Mr. Enns fails to understand is there is the distinct difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, as well as failing to recognize that the New Testament clearly indicates that the Truths of the Old Testament are for our edification as followers of Christ in the 21st Century.

Mr. Enns, try not to be such a dummy!

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