There is much we simply cannot explain. We try and do we ever try. Mankind cannot help itself but try. And for many reasons, mankind has benefited from these efforts of explaining the once unexplainable. God has blessed mankind with the ability to learn and explain. Tides and mirages, for example, were mysterious. Human knowledge has created ways to explain.
Now we can believe certain explanations or not. That is not my point. Point is reasonable explanations have been created where once the “how” seemed impossible.
Flying, televisions, computers, lightbulbs. All seemed unimaginable at one point, until they were invented.
Man’s quest for explaining and inventing, again, can be very beneficial. But like anything, not everyone agrees with explanations or likes inventions. And not everything can be explained away.
Many contest the authenticity of Scripture. Many argue about the authority of Scripture. Written by man? Who put the Bible together? Who allowed some books, and not others? Errors? Contradictions?
Man has a quest to explain and invent new reasoning and new methods of doing. Out with the old, in with the new. Rejection of objective truth. Truth is relative to individuals and cultures right? Pluralistic thought, or the notion that multiple truths are equally valid, is the pragmatic approach of the day. Your god is my God. It’s all the same. Your ideology, my Bible, they all have some good stuff in there. No reason for foundational, objective truth…why that’s just pure bigotry. (yes, I can be sarcastic with absurdities)
Now I am not going to get into exactly how the Bible came to be. This is meant to be broad and thought-provoking.
Man, in the quest to explain, leaves out the possibility of the unexplainable, feeling it to be intellectually menial. Everything can be explained, right?
Objective Truth? No way. It’s all relative. We must leave room to invent new ways, explain away the old. Let the culture, let society, define truth…a revolving, constantly shifting truth. But I digress.
God created the Heavens and the earth. I suppose if you don’t believe that, then much of what I am saying is of little significance.
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” (2 Tim. 3:16a) Do you believe that? Do you believe that every single Word of Scripture was authored by the Holy Spirit through individually chosen men?
Can we explain this? Can we explain how God used human authors to create a perfect, Holy Word? No, not really. But those who believe it to be so know that God created everything. Scripture is God breathed. God is the source who breathed out His Word. Divine authorship through human authors. That is our explanation. Does that suit an unbelieving world? No, probably not.
Many try to explain away infallible and inerrant Scripture by any means necessary. Explain away objective Truth. “There are errors, contradictions, questionable construction of which books were included in the Biblical canon,” shout the sceptics. “I have an opinion! Truth can’t exist without my opinion,” shouts the relativist.
Did The Holy, perfect, righteous God truly breathe out Scripture? That is the only real question. Because if you believe God did, Scripture is infallible, inerrant, and perfectly includes 66 Canonical books. If not, the questions of the Bible’s authenticity and construction will be unending.
I was once a doubter. How can this book be perfect in its original language? Who put the Bible together? Why these 66 books? There are many other books that should be included. Why were these chosen?
But then I answered the unexplainable…. God…I answered the unexplainable because God wrote the objective, absolute Truth on my heart…I believe in an all mighty, all-powerful, all-knowing God, Creator of the Heavens and earth. Every Word is God breathed. Every book is chosen by God. No less, no more. Objective, absolute Truth! Praise be to God!
Pastor Jason Pauley
