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BIBLICAL ERRANCY Subscriptions:
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NT SUPPORT FOR THE MIRACULOUS (From issue 74, Feb, 1989)
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A large number of biblicists adhere to what is known as the liberal
view of the Bible, a critical component of which is that many well-known
biblical events are to be viewed allegorically or symbolically rather
than literally. From their perspective, Adam and Eve, the Flood, Jonah
and the Whale, and Balaam's Talking Ass, for example, are not to be
taken as actual accounts of real events but mythological stories created
to convey a message. Fundamentalists and other inerrantists are seen as
childish ideologues rigidly adhering to a literal interpretation.
Unfortunately, liberals fail to realize their position is biblically
untenable and wholly inconsistent. You can't relegate these stories to
the realm of fable and folklore without simultaneously destroying not
only the divinity and existence of Jesus but the veracity of Paul and
Peter. And, of course, if these occur the NT all but disintegrates and
Christianity rapidly follows suit. The reasoning in this regard is
rather simple. Adam and Eve had to have been real live human beings
because JESUS ("Have ye not read, that he which made them at the
beginning and made them male and female...."--Matt 19:4), ("But from the
beginning of the creation God made them male and female"--Mark 10:6) and
PAUL ("For Adam was first formed then Eve"--1Tim 2:13), ("Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam to Moses"--Rom 5:14), ("The first man Adam was
made a living soul"--1Cor 15:45) said they were. To say they were
fictional is to say Jesus and Paul were lying. And if these two men are
deceivers, all of Christianity could be fraudulent. In 2Cor 11:3 ("But
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his subtillty....") and 1Tim 2:14 ("Adam was not
deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression") Paul
said a real serpent tempted a real Eve. Anyone holding to the contrary
simply doesn't believe Paul is a credible source. If Adam and Eve were
fictional then so was Original Sin. And if it's fabulous there would
have been no evil in the world and no need for Jesus to have died for
our sins. The Passion, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection, would
have been useless. Even more important, if Adam was fictional then so
were Jesus, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David because the geneology
of Jesus in Luke 3 clearly shows they descended from Adam. Real people
can't be descended from a mythological figure.
Noah and the Flood had to have been real because JESUS ("But as the
days Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in
the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the
ark. And knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the son of man be"--Matt 24:37-39, Luke 17:26-27),
PAUL ("By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house...."
--Heb 11:7), and PETER ("....when once the longsuffering of God waited
in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls were saved by water"--1Pet 3:20), ("and spared not the old
world, but saved Noah the 8th person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly"-- 2Pet 2:5),
("Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished"
--2Pet 3:6) said they were. Fire and brimstone had to have rained on
Sodom and Gomorrah because JESUS ("But the same day that Lot went out of
Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them
all"--Luke 19:29), PAUL ("....we would have fared like Sodom and been
made like Gomorrah"--Rom 9:29) and PETER ("and turning the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes...."--2 Pet 2:6) said they did. The
murdering of a real Abel ("From the blood of Abel unto the blood of
Zacharias--Luke 11:51, Matt 23:35), the swallowing of Jonah by a whale
("For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly"--Matt 12:40), the eating of manna in the wilderness ("your
fathers did eat manna in the wilderness"--John 6:49), the punishing of
Lot's wife ("Remember Lot's wife"-- Matt 17:32) and the meeting of Moses
with the burning bush ("Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed
at the bush...."--Luke 20:37) must be believed if Jesus is God and God
cannot lie ("God is not a man that he should lie...." --Num 23:19). If
Jesus is always truthful, then Moses ("For had ye believed Moses, ye
would have believed me; for he wrote of me"--John 5:46) could not have
been fictional as some liberals contend, nor could Elijah (Luke 4:25),
Isaiah (Matt 12:17), Daniel (Matt 24:15), David (Matt 22:45), Abraham,
Isaac, or Jacob (Matt 8:11). Jesus upheld the existence of angels (Matt
25:31, 18:10, 13:39) and a real Devil (Luke 10:18, Matt 4:7, 25:41), and
his followers must believe likewise. Otherwise Jesus is a deceiver.
Anyone who does not believe the Israelites crossed the Red Sea on dry
land ("By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land: which
the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned"--heb 11:29) and the walls of
Jericho collapsed ("By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they
were compassed about seven days" --Heb 11:30) is simultaneously
contending Paul is not credible. And anyone who claims belief in
talking donkeys ("...the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the
madness of the prophet"--2 Pet 2:16) is nonsense is doubting the
truthfulness of Peter. In essence, anyone who takes the Bible seriously
MUST believe in a large number of incredible events or undermine not
only the reliability of key NT figures but the Bible itself.