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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Burger King<\/em> fast food chain has long used the catchy slogan, \u201cHave it your way\u201d\u2014build it like you want it. BK may have come up with the slogan, but it hardly originated the concept.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What do a hamburger corporation and God have in common? Nothing really, but BK and man\u2019s conception<\/strong> of God is a different matter. Even among those who believe in God, most apparently think that He operates by the BK slogan: \u201cHave it your way.\u201d Most men have done so from the time of Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel (Gen. 3\u20134).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Men have incessantly invented their gods, fashioning them from senseless materials or deifying a fellow human being or the sun or moon. Some have tried to meld pagan idolatry with Christianity (as seen in Roman Catholicism, Islam, the Baha\u2019i movement, and the inane COEXIST<\/em> bumper stickers).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God will have none of it. The Bible, God\u2019s revelation of Himself to mankind, provides ultimate proof (in both of its Testaments) that God has never operated by the BK<\/em> slogan. The first of the Ten Commandments encapsulates the consistent Biblical message in this regard (Exo. 20:3\u20135).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Multiplied millions profess<\/strong> belief in God and in the Bible as His revelation. Their practice<\/strong> altogether belies their profession, however. They apparently envision God as operating\u2014in both religion and morals\u2014on the following principle: \u201cThe Bible tells you My<\/strong> way, but go ahead and have it your<\/strong> way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The New Testament has been God\u2019s Law in religion since the Lord Jesus died on Calvary (Eph. 2:14\u201315; Col. 2:14; et al.). Roman Catholicism may find in uninspired tradition and\/or paganism the basis for its gargantuan structure, high ritual, tedious traditions, celibate clergy, \u201cvicar of Christ,\u201d and the popehood of Simon Peter, but it will not find any of these in the Bible. Nor does the Protestant system with its varieties of hierarchies, names, creeds, and practices find any support in the Bible. Contrariwise, the New Testament inveighs against all such inventions. Obviously, men believe that God allows the have-it-your-way<\/em> approach.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The New Testament also declares God\u2019s moral law, revealing the way men should and should not live (e.g., Gal. 5:19\u201325; Tit. 2:11\u201312). Yet countless professed believers seemingly assume that God will let them have it their way if they don\u2019t like His way. This assumption explains why avowed believers ignore His will concerning fornication, drunkenness, divorce and remarriage, lying, sexual perversions, murder\/abortion, stealing, and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bible is God\u2019s Word, and all men who have lived since Jesus died on the Cross are accountable to the New Testament portion of it. Avowed believers must know that it articulates God\u2019s way\u2014and His<\/strong> way, not our way, is the only acceptable<\/strong> way.<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, September 23, 2016.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution: <\/strong>Printed from TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Burger King fast food chain has long used the catchy slogan, \u201cHave it your way\u201d\u2014build it like you want it. BK may have come up with the slogan, but…<\/p>\n