Rev. Don Campbell
Through the ages, men have tried in vain to destroy the Bible. It has survived the attacks of its enemies, the neglect of its friends, and the abuse of its users. We abuse the word by “cherry-picking” passages that seem to fit our preconceived ideas and ignoring or discounting others.
Most of us are not as radical as Thomas Jefferson, who literally cut from his New Testament things that he did not find reasonable, but Peter said that there were some things in Paul’s epistles “that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures” (2 Peter 3:16).
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (Hebrews 1:1). The wording implies finality. There will be no other message from God other than the one delivered by his Son and confirmed through his holy apostles and prophets (Hebrews 2:1-4). Those who claim latter-day revelations have apparently taken their scissors to these truths.
Another truth is spoken by Paul: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8).
