The Importance of Reading the Bible

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Rezaire Machen: The most divisive issue of today within Christianity is what the Bible means. We are to be in the Word passionately, she says. Praise God, none of us are his books; we're going to have the word of God and we will understand it. And so really, I think the first chapter of Westminster Confession of Faith is extremely helpful in unpacking for us how to read the Bible. It's just simply about the need to remember that in Scripture, there are no manifold meanings.

What does it mean to be a human being created in the image of God? In the brave new world of today, that’s a loaded question. Modern culture in the West has affirmed a radical reinvention of the self that was barely imaginable when J. Gresham Machen wrote Christianity & Liberalism in 1923. Not only is LGBTQ ideology inescapable—in schools, books, movies, fashion, sports, even beer and car commercials. It has become a dogma of the mainstream.

And yet, as radical as this seems, there are prescient notes throughout Machen’s 100 year old book, words from his time that can help us make sense of our own. Principles that help us to take every thought captive, even in a world that insists on allegiance to being everything we want to be, whenever we want it, on demand. . .

Politics. Technology. Identity. Power. Science. Everything seems to be changing. So why not faith?

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