Response to Doubting the Word of God

A recent letter
When we spoke on Thursday you mentioned those you know who doubt in their believe in the Bible. Saying just that the hand of God is bigger than the hand of man and was over it, was sort of a cop out on my part for I do have very strong feelings in that area. I did not give you any of my feelings about those who do not believe in the bible when we spoke for fear of appearing to be preaching to you, I am told that is a big fault of mine; and I respect you far too much. Plus I am going on the assumption here that you were talking of believers who doubt the word. So here is just a few of the things I share when I run into those who suspect the word.

Personally I find failure for a believer to believe the word of God to be an oxymoron how a person can claim to believe in God and reject his word to me is totally insane; for in my heart to reject the word of God is to reject God. To say he is not powerful enough to preserve what he wants us to know is saying that the spirit of the living God does not work!

The bible is our (His children’s) gift from God. It holds our origin, past, present and future in a timeless, beautiful array of parables. Parables in his wisdom so that we are dependent on His love, the gift of His son and the birth of the Spirit to understand it! It is His way of explaining His plan to His children. I go pretty deep into the study of the gifts, just being me! I believe the gift of discernment is an understanding and discerning of His word. The bible itself tells us it is written in a matter that all will not understand, to a brief point this is to encourage fellowship, those who do understand (preachers, priest and teachers) to place the word in a plainer manner for those who are seeking but still have problems understanding or who are not mature in the spirit; Paul preached in every letter, Christ crucified is the channel or doorway. (Understanding and discernment hold the same meaning when I am speaking of religion, just the way my brain works on the subject.)

To a second brief point there are those who become puffed up in knowledge (those who take a little or a lot and decide that they know it all) and run with it; leaving the spirit of God’s spirit and what God has for them sort of standing in right field waiting for a fly ball (fly ball here means whoever back on their knees, usually threw some trial; trust me I know on this one I have witness there). The church, his children only really have two tools to work with the word and our witness (words of Paul). When we leave the word of God behind and rely on our witness alone we get out of time, for the bible is timeless therefore it keeps very up to date, right to the millisecond; It is a source of nourishment to the light of the spirit; thus, when we stay in the word it keeps us from spending to much time in right or left field. (The bible is like the wellspring of the spirit, from which we draw our understanding)

That is my witness, I stray all the time; however, the Lord has taught me; for now I know, the more I learn, the spirit teaches me how little I really know. The farther we stray from the written word, the farther we stray from God’s will for us! (That second brief point is why we have so many religions!) There are dozens of other good examples of puffed up knowledge but I am going to leave it here.I believe we live by the grace of God and the bible is the tool he uses through Jesus Christ and the Living Spirit. It is in combination with the Spirit how God teaches. The bible contains how and why He created us and what our purpose as His children is: it shows His love for us, His patients with us, why He created us, His desire for us; and most of all His entire plan for us! It is a chronicle of his Love, Laws and His ways, born in the deep love of the Father to his Son and the Son to the Father, a creation of that miracle of the Spirit that guides and teaches us. Without faith in his word, what do we have?

The bible says that the fear of God is the beginning of understanding a person has robbed their selves if they reject it or leave it behind.That awe is no where better illustrated than in the Bible. But it is closed to those who do not ask “we have not for we ask not” so I advise those who doubt to spend some time on their knees, the author knows just how to lead them to the understanding they need, to accomplish their destiny in Christ, after all he wrote the book.
At this point I would love to say I could write out a venue that would lead people to understanding the Bible or to change the doubters mind, however, there is only one who can remove scales from eyes and plugs from ears, and open our hearts to understanding our Father.

I will close with these few items to point out to doubters, because I could probably write a book on all of the reasons we need his word in our spiritual lives. Of the beautifully written parables of how and why we need to keep our eyes on God and the gift of the seed that is demonstrated in the Bible. When it comes to the word of God I tend to go on and on.

But in a nutshell as Paul said it is all through that doorway of Christ crucified, sometimes we just need to get back to the basics to see, with a clearer eye (or understanding); Back to the renewing of our mind Paul speaks of in Ephesians.Old and new testaments alike warn us repeatedly of the dangers in leaning to our own understanding and losing the simplicity of Christ Crucified. And looking at it from a very simple outlook, it was words from that book that brought you to Christ to begin with, doubting once you believe is sort of like jumping off the train half way to your destination (or getting a little puffy with world knowledge) you may get there, but when?
Or to use a popular Bible story, thousands left Egypt on a twelve-day journey that took forty years and only 2 of the original thousands entered the promise land. Sounds like a whole lot jumped off the train to me. Ask me how I know? I jump off regularly. It is truly just by grace I know the Lord! And on behave of the Israelites, Grace was just not as clearly defined in the exodus as it is in Christ, however I pray you get my point.

But His love for us was so great… My next statement sort of goes without saying, knowing someone who claims to believe but doubts the Bible I pray earnestly for! And if you agree, agree also with my prayer for wherever two or more agree on any one thing so is the Lord. For our Brothers and Sisters who doubt we pray:

Our Heavenly Father we give thanksgiving with lifted hearts full of praise and thanksgiving for the love you show toward us in your many gifts to us through your Son Jesus Christ, humbly we ask, that you to touch the hearts of ……and all who doubt your written word with a renewal of the heart and mind towards Christ and Your gifts. That as they, as well as we, seek Christ, we are renewed with a new understanding and revelation of the truth and beauty in the reality of your Word. That through our faith and knowledge in Christ crucified that your spirit write those words on our hearts with clarity and give understanding of the written word to those who call out in your name. Our prayer Lord is that you have an abundance of eyes that see and ears that hear with hearts of flesh in which you can write your word. That we doubt not and give hope and reason for others to believe also, to bring Glory and honor to our Lord Jesus Christ today and forever. We ask this in your precious name Jesus. Amen