{"id":10685,"date":"2020-12-23T18:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:18:29","slug":"on-penknives-and-the-bible-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10685","title":{"rendered":"On Penknives and the Bible\u2014No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>larger font on our <b>Brief Articles 1<\/b>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the fashion of Jehoiakim, the ungodly sixth-century BC king of Judah, many today do figuratively the same thing he did literally\u2014take their \u201cpenknives\u201d to portions of the Bible they find objectionable and cast them into the \u201cfire\u201d (Jer. 36:20\u201325). The following is a prime example:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u201cJesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me\u201d<\/strong>(John 14:6). A few decades ago in the US, only a small minority of pulpiteers and theologians would have denied (openly, at least) the Savior\u2019s words in the foregoing statement. Theologians then began drinking at the spring of postmodern philosophy, leading them to deny the validity of objective truth claims. Since the Bible is a book of truth claims about the existence of God, creation, history, inspiration, miracles, the identity of the Son of God, and many others, the Postmodernist rendered it little more than a religious trinket, a symbol that represents no substance. Every man is allowed the luxury of counting his own subjective opinions to be \u201ctruth,\u201d regardless of innumerable contradictory positions held by others. Postmodernism eradicates the concept of truth as men have rightly recognized it for all time.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Postmodernism\u2019s approach to religion not only allows every professed <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">believer<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> in the Christ to have his own \u201ctruth,\u201d but consistently applied, allows <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">unbelievers<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> (Buddhists, Confucianists, Hindus, Muslims, Humanists, et al.) to be part of the \u201ctruth fraternity\u201d as well. The \u201cemerging church\u201d movement of more recent vintage (which is still \u201cemerging\u201d), was launched by some so-called \u201cevangelicals.\u201d It openly touts what can only be called \u201cneo-universalism\u201d and stands in radical contradiction to Jesus\u2019 claim that access to the Father is exclusively through Himself. Such thought \u201cprogression\u201d is inescapable once one abandons the Biblical (and rational) concept of objective truth. All who profess such tolerance as to claim salvation through Mohammed, Buddha, or any other besides Jesus of Nazareth have taken their penknives to Jesus\u2019 truth claim about Himself. They are infidels.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u201cHe that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day\u201d <\/strong>(John 12:48). Ironically, men take their penknives to this passage that clearly warns not to do so. Taking a penknife to Jesus\u2019 words equals taking a penknife to Jesus. His words will judge us all, including those who have taken their penknives to them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, December 10, 2010].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in\u00a0 larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0page.] \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the fashion of Jehoiakim, the ungodly sixth-century BC king of Judah, many today do figuratively the same thing he did literally\u2014take their \u201cpenknives\u201d to portions of the Bible&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10685\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  On Penknives and the Bible\u2014No. 3<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-teachersdoctrine","category-obedience","category-universalism","wpcat-18-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-226-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17344,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/17344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}