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The Bible is a very dangerous book
ChristianGovernance eletter – June 15, 2012
The Bible is a very dangerous book
Why is the Hamilton government school board banning Bible distribution?
Because they say the Bible is a dangerous book.
This is an amazing testimony. Even many – most? – Christians today don’t see the Bible as a dangerous book.
But the Bible is a very dangerous book and these non-Christians realize this fact.
Amazing.
The Bible is an incredibly dangerous book. It socks you between the eyes. It crushes your ego. It exposes hypocrisy and sham religion. The Bible demolishes ignorant arguments. It breaks its enemies. It’s invincible.
When you go up against the Bible, you’re toast – finished – undone.
The Bible is the most dangerous book in town – in history.
It’s the Word of God. It can squash you like a bug.
Even if you submit to it, the testimony of the Bible will break you and humble you. It deals with our pride and our arrogance, our foolishness and our ignorance.
And when you don’t submit to it, you’d rather have mountains fall on or suicide bombers “befriend” you than have the Bible expose you.
The Bible is POWER. The Bible is authority. The Bible is a dangerous book.
Jesus said, even the stones would praise Him, if people don’t. And when Christians don’t celebrate the power of the Bible, God will draw praise from the heathen.
The Hamilton government school board recently decided to ban the distribution of the Bible and other “faith-based” books (probably with exceptions for environmentalist and evolutionary materials) at their schools. Every honest person knows that the target of these government school decisions is the Bible. As the recent Hamilton Spectator article notes, it’s only the Gideons in recent years who have been interested in consistently distributing literature at the schools, and Gideons distribute Bibles. “Aside from The Gideons, no other religious groups have approached the board to hand out materials,” according to Sharon Stephanian, superintendent of equity, engagement and system programs.
Guess what, this same government school officials said, “Ultimately [the ban on distributing Bibles] is about creating those safe, equitable and inclusive environments for all students, where all religions are respected and valued.”
Did you read that? “Safe”! The Bible must be banned because it endangers student safety. The Bible is a dangerous book. It’s a terror to the heathen and a threat to the rebel.
The Bible is a dangerous book. It has the power to crush; the power to kill. It will kill your sin, or it will condemn you to eternity apart from God. The Bible is a terror to non-Christians. If you refuse to repent of your sin, the Bible should be a terror to you.
Of course non-Christians want to get the Bible out of their schools.
Without understanding and embracing the message of redemption – and the truth that Jesus Christ faced the wrath of God on behalf of His people – sinful men will always be terrified of the Bible. They don’t understand this terror the way they should, but God still testifies to His own glory through their mouths and, in this case, He has done so with the testimony of the dangerous nature of His Word, the Bible.
This government school official is correct, outside of the redemptive work of Christ in a person’s life, the Bible is a terror to him, so student safety would be advanced by banning distribution of this living book. Best never to have heard the message than to have heard it and rejected it.
But we pray that the Church would rise up and increase its impact, advancing God’s Kingdom once again in this land – revived and dedicated to reformation – so that many more people would hear and believe. And, thank God, we don’t need the government schools to advance God’s Kingdom.