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by groundhog91

Created on: June 14, 2008   Last Updated: May 24, 2011

...Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but MY WORD shall stand forever... The Bible isn't out dated and irrelevant, the world and the human race is, but not the Bible. When it comes to the words: "it shall come to pass", we have to stop and consider that this phrase only pertains to this planet, and this human race alone. We know this because we can look up and see the same North Star that Christopher Columbus used in navigating the oceans hundreds of years ago. Columbus is not with us any more, but the North Star is, meaning simply that what was supposed to pass away did, and what was not still remains, go figure.

If a person on this planet, who is let's say seven years old, finds a trinket of gold in the sand that dates back two thousand years, and the inscriptions on it, causes a revolution in how the wheel was invented. Does this mean that this discovery makes all knowledge obsolete? Does this entitle the seven-year-old to honorary scholars' diploma? What is outdated is the information inscribed on this ancient relict, not the gold, and what is unfounded is the idea of scholar, not the fact that this person is only seven years old. The Bible is misunderstood by many of these self proclaimed scholars that have no idea what they are looking at. Instead of seeing the true authenticity of the gold, they are merely interpreting the simple inscriptions, and saying “look how outdated this is”. True value is when a person recognizes it, but pearls to a swine only make them angry, because the pearls are not eatable.

To boil it all down for the summery of this particular article about the "outdated" Scriptures, we have to say that the value of these Scriptures is still the same, gold is gold, and a person’s acknowledgement of it is totally irrelevant. Time is not included with the WORD, only with the Earth and the Universe, because they are made to pass away. This idea of the WORD being made is not only foolish, it is practically childish in overlooking the fact that WORDS that are spoken are not made up. Made up words is what we like to call fibs, or lies; but no one can make a word, they can only speak them. When it comes to the outcome of these words spoken by these so-called scholars, then yes, most if not all, are irrelevant and outdated. Henry Ford would not be able to explain the technologies going into the Hybrid cars, or the solar technologies, or even the complex fuel injector systems of today, and it is not that these technologies are irrelevant, it's that Henry Ford is at this time, irrelevant.

Just like anything else on this planet, the WORD will begin to lose its' grip on the wisdom of this World because of the strict demands it has for the truth. Liberal interpretations have tried and tried to declassify what is considered sacred, to merely the same myth as the dragon slayers. What is being overlooked is the authenticity of these truths, and only going on their miniscule understandings, thus making their own opinions irrelevant, and their own existence outdated. What is meant to pass away will, and that includes the scholar. What is meant to last, will be what the scholar got out of it, gold is gold. To a seven-year-old, it doesn't mean much, but even that is out dated now, because when we turned around twice, this seven-year-old is now a forty-year-old! Everything this lad thought back then is totally irrelevant to what is going on now.
The question stands, will we make ourselves outdated and irrelevant, or will we get the true value and make something relevant to what is going on right now? This of course is totally up to us. The Bible makes everything relevant, not the other way around.


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