False teachers will mock and discount the Bible as the word of God, even as they attend “Christian” seminaries and stand in pulpits of “Christian” churches. That is a clear sign that they are fakes. If they were true believers they would accept the word of God as the Thessalonians did. Read this carefully:
1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
If you aren’t sure if you are encountering a false teacher, just ask them if they think 1 Thessalonians 2:13 is the word of God. Then you’ll know.
The Bible teaches over and over just how important sound doctrine is. When people mock that importance and say that the Bible is not the word of God then they are doing you a big favor. They are shouting out that they are inauthentic. Don’t follow them.
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Neil, they mock the idea that Scripture is the word of God and subsequently denigrate the Bible by treating it merely as the record of a human experience of the divine rather than the Deity’s revelation to man — a move that is similar to revere Christ merely as a “good teacher,” which C.S. Lewis rightfully dismissed as an option that was never on the table — but we must remember they don’t stop there.
They mock the idea that Scripture is God’s written word, but they also slander those who affirm the idea, and they do so with the ridiculous accusation of idolatry.
(God gives you a message, and for having the stones to actually revere God’s message as, well, God’s message, one is guilty of confusing that message with its Author? The absurdity of the charge hardly needs to be explained — is it treason against the king to obey his decrees? — but it should be pointed out every time the charge is made.)
They slander us for disagreeing with them — and, more precisely, for standing with the historic church and affirming that Scripture is what it claims to be — and they do so with reasoning that doesn’t bear the slightest scrutiny.
But what would be absolutely hilarious if it weren’t so despicable is that, as they do this, they congratulate themselves — seemingly sincerely, suggesting that they are deluding themselves quite thoroughly — for both their ability to reason and their Christian charity, and they claim to do all this, denigrating the Scripture that Christ unambiguously affirmed, ostensibly in Christ’s own name.
They are the smart ones, they are the loving ones, and they are Christ’s true followers and ambassadors.
Or so they say — as they must do so, because the evidence of the lives they lead and the words they speak point in the entirely opposite direction.
Plus they wear funny clothes.