OH MY GOSH!
I don’t know what to say.
President Trump just called for the SAVE America Act to be attached to budget reconciliation 3.0.
Reconciliation packages only require a simple majority in the Senate.
This means that we could secure our elections with 51 votes.
Is believing Genesis as written “too simplistic”?
When someone claims it’s too simplistic, I believe this is showing a problem we all have to battle with because it’s a part of our nature, the sinful nature we have, because we are descendants of Adam.
The problem is pride.
God’s Word has a lot to say about pride:
“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom” (Proverbs 11:2).
“Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him” (Proverbs 26:12).
And God’s Word tells us how to gain wisdom and knowledge:
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7).
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10).
I would rather stand before the Lord and say that I’m guilty of simplistically believing what his Word states in Genesis than trust the word of fallible humans and reinterpret God’s Word.
I’m reminded about this so-called “simplistic” approach when I read what Jesus said about children.
“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3–4).
It is so much easier for children who have not had years of indoctrination from the world to believe God’s Word as written. Reading Genesis for them is just like reading a history book.
Well, it is history, and history as God had it recorded for us. Sadly, the more educated people come, many find it harder to believe God’s Word as written in Genesis.
The problem isn’t the Bible, it’s our pride.