THE BIBLE AND CASSETTE TAPES
When my father passed away (1976) he had a lot of eight track tapes. Many today still have cassette tapes. Cars no longer come equipped with a cassette player but rather a CD player. How does all that relate to the Bible? The following quotes may help, “In 31 states and more than a hundred foreign countries, spanking in school has gone the way of cassette tapes, pay phones and Kodachrome.” (USA Today, May 8, 2012). That could have read, “The Bible has gone the way of cassette tapes, pay phones …” Another quote, “Supporters of corporal punishment laud the old ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ proverb, but science says otherwise [Emphasis mine LA]. The American Academy of Pediatrics concluded years ago that spanking harms learning and self-image.” Hmm, isn’t that amazing? Poor ole God didn’t understand learning and self-image.
This is not new of course. The Bible is being rejected in many areas.
THE BIBLE IS BEING REJECTED IN THE RELM OF MARRIAGE. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Gen. 2:24). Paul wrote, “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Heb. 13:4). NO! NO! We must live together (commit fornication) first to see if we are compatible. The Bible has gone the way of the cassette tape.
THE BIBLE IS BEING REJECTED IN THE REALM OF MORIALITY. Gay marriage is now the rage in spite of the Bible’s instruction. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Lev. 18:22). Businesses and organizations are rushing to let the homosexual society know that we support you. Paul again writes, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change 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 that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” (Rom. 1:26-27). Recently (May 6, 2012) Vice President Joe Biden said that he was “ ‘absolutely comfortable’ with gay marriage, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday in a separate interview that he thinks same-sex couples should be able to marry.” (USA Today, May 8, 2012). The Bible has gone the way of the cassette tape.
THE BIBLE IS BEING REJECTED IN THE REALM OF CREATION. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Science says “nay, nay” it was created by a big bang. You, my friend, came from a lower form of animal and not made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26). The Bible has gone the way of the cassette tape.
There is only one major problem!!! In the Day of Judgment we will not be judged by The American Academy of Pediatrics, by a school board, by Vice President Biden or Education Secretary Arne Duncan but by the Holy Word of God. Jesus said, “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: that word that I have spoken, the same shall judge you in the last day” (John 12:48).
Larry