Friday, December 27, 2013

Is change good?

Most people think change is good. You may not realize it, but our laws are constantly changing. The U.S. constitution has been amended 27 times in our country’s history. The changes in the Texas constitution is even more impressive. It has been amended 474 times in the state’s history. Lesser laws are added continuously during legislative sessions.

The laws altered and added by men may be good or bad; that is subject to debate in a democracy. However, we cannot take apply that same attitude to the word of God. He specifically does not want it to change. Jude described God’s will as what was “once delivered unto the saints” (vs. 3). We know this means that God does not intend for the Bible to change for the “once” is used three times in Hebrews to denote that Christ’s sacrifice will never again need to be made (7:27; 9:28; 10:10).

Furthermore, God warned in the Old Testament and the New Testament not to change His law. Deuteronomy 12:32; says, “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” Revelation 22:18-19 says, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

Underscoring both of these passages is the warning given in Galatians 1:8-9: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

While we may change and adapt our laws to suit our purposes, we cannot change God’s law. It is His and He revealed it. Therefore, He is the one who has authority over it. The greatest respect one can show it is to simply obey it — not change it.


Kyle Campbell

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