And why is it so important for liberals to refute the Bible?
Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot Editor
11.13.2015
If anything, our nation longs for a moral compass with steadfast principals which offer hope for eternity rather than the frivolity of temporal gratification.
Anyone truly understanding God’s Word should know Jesus’ message was one of hope in the midst of hopelessness. Driven by a love we couldn’t possibly understand, the Son of God subjected himself to the frailty and passions of man, yet remained sinless. This sinless nature allowed Jesus to amass the sins of mankind and freely offer his life as a cleansing sacrifice for those who would call upon the name of the Lord.
If we aren’t to believe the entire Bible is the inerrant, Holy Spirit inspired Word of God – then what parts should we discard? Are we to believe that a Holy God, who spoke the world into existence, is capable of making a mistake? If so, then how can we be certain of our eternal salvation?
My experience has been that any scripture that impedes a lascivious lifestyle and narrows the path to righteousness will be brought to question. Often, liberals will attempt to discredit the infallibility of God’s Word by taking scripture out of context to validate their argument. It’s truly interesting how liberals challenge scripture that restricts them but leverage it if it empowers them.
None of us is qualified to “pick and choose” what parts of the Bible are true. Doing so would be the height of arrogance and hypocrisy. I submit that if even one word is false, we have no hope.
All of us who trust and believe in God’s Word share an eternal hope – not by our works, but by His Grace. And frankly, anything less than receiving the Bible in its entirety is much too great a risk to lose an eternity in Heaven.
Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.
Free State Patriot 
While I believe the bible is inherently good, and has valuable teachings to guide our lives to a better path, your assumption that EVERY word in the bible is true, is somewhat presumptuous. The reason being, God did not write the bible. Man wrote the bible, according to his own understanding of God’s word, depending on who was putting it on paper at the time. There was a time when there were several bibles, all telling different stories of God, and to stop the confusion, the Catholic church organized in order to take out what THEY believed was the most useful parts of the bible, so all bishops in the church, taught the same thing. Later, the King James version of the bible took out of the Catholic bible the parts they believed were more important to teach. Also, the bible has been translated, several different times in to many languages, and even the modern day version differs slightly from the King James version, which can lose something in the translation, depending on who is doing the translation. Paul’s writings contradict many of the early teachings of the gospel, and Peter and Paul did not agree on what Jesus taught. Such as what you brought up about the grace of God. It was taught by the early disciples that Faith without works are dead, while Paul taught, faith was all you needed to be saved by the grace of god.
I could sight many other contradictions in the bible, and the historical writing and translation of the bible, but the point is that your statement that every word in the bible is true, cannot be proven one way or the other, and so we must merely believe that those who gave us the bible were inspired, and then try and glean the over all message if the bible, which I believe is one thing….. Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself…. Living by that one teaching, will make all the other teachings of the bible, fall into place, without having to split hairs over what those ancient prophets, or disciples actually meant, when they wrote down their own individual understanding of the gospel.
Jeanie
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