{"id":10690,"date":"2020-12-23T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2022-02-24T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:40:11","slug":"10690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"On Penknives and the Bible\u2014No. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<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;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the fashion of Jehoiakim, the ungodly 6<sup>th<\/sup> century BC king of Judah, many today do in essence the same thing he actually did\u2014take their \u201cpenknives\u201d to portions of the Bible they find objectionable and cast them into the \u201cfire\u201d (Jer. 36:20\u201325). Consider:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cFor this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due\u201d <\/strong>(Rom. 1:26\u201327; cf. 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Tim. 1:10; Jude 7). As the pressure of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d (i.e., \u201ccensorship\u201d or \u201cthought\/speech control\u201d) has increased in our nation, outcries against evil have correspondingly become fewer and weaker. Homosexual behavior is a prime example of this fact. Only a few years ago various state laws forbade sodomy, but the Supreme Court struck those down.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Not surprisingly, an ever-growing humanism and secularism (promoted in public education for decades) has only contempt for the Book our Founding Fathers unblushingly read and revered. Secularists and humanists don\u2019t bother with penknives; they toss the Bible <\/span><em style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;\">in toto<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;\"> into the fire. They are therefore among the staunchest advocates of and\/or sympathizers with behavior that is an abomination to their Creator.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Political correctness has made its mark on religious leaders \u2014those generally considered a nation\u2019s \u201cconscience.\u201d It has been startling to observe the alacrity with which various denominational leaders have virtually snipped from Sacred Writ God\u2019s consistent condemnation (in both Testaments) of homosexual behavior. Not only are many of them now silent; some of them have become vocal apologists of that which God finds malodorous. In abandoning the Bible\u2019s moral absolutes, they, too, have become secularists\u2014all the while continuing their fa\u00e7ade of hollow religiosity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cJudge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment\u201d<\/strong> (John 7:24). The \u201cpolitically correct\u201d crowd revels in a statement from Jesus\u2019 Sermon on the Mount: \u201cJudge not, that ye be not judged\u201d (Mat. 7:1). They misapply this proscription as forbidding one\u2019s disapproval of even the most debased forms of human conduct. They then take their penknives to His words in John 7:24, in which Jesus acknowledges the necessity of judging others, but requiring us to use truth and righteousness as our standard.<\/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 17, 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<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\u00a0 After the fashion of Jehoiakim, the ungodly 6th century BC king of Judah, many today do in essence the same thing he actually did\u2014take their \u201cpenknives\u201d to portions of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10690\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  On Penknives and the Bible\u2014No. 4<\/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":[97,712,355,51,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexualitysodomy","category-judgment-2","category-political-correctness","category-sin","category-word-of-god","wpcat-97-id","wpcat-712-id","wpcat-355-id","wpcat-51-id","wpcat-311-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","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=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19225,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions\/19225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}