2nd Peter 3:16, “As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
One of the biggest dangers in churches and Bible colleges today is
intellectual arrogance. The Apostle Peter honestly admitted that some of the
Apostle Paul's writings were hard to understand. Peter didn't wrestle the
Scripture to make them fit his own personal agenda, nor the agenda of some
organization or institution. Peter was an honest man—a roughneck—but honest
nonetheless!
As Peter and John were preaching the Gospel to a group of people, the Sadducees, priests, and captain of the temple came to stop them. The Sadducees DIDN'T believe in a resurrection; but the Pharisees did. The Bible tells us that some of the Pharisees (such as Nicodemus) believed on Christ and were saved; but not one mention is ever made of even one Sadducee believing on Jesus Christ, because they adamantly denied the resurrection of Christ.
The Scriptures tell us that when the religious leaders heard the boldness of Peter and John, they knew that these men had been with Jesus Christ...
Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”
In sharp contrast to the sermonettes of arrogant intellectuals who dare not make any dogmatic (absolute) statements; the Bible teaches that a man who preaches the Word of God does so with authority and boldness. This is because God is an authoritative God and His Words are authoritative! THE TRUTH is absolute and intolerable.
It is the arrogance of puffed up vain men which cause them to feel that they need to present “both sides” of every argument. It is considered “unscholarly” to teach a subject without presenting alternative opinions for the listener to consider. Yet, the man of God who knows that the Bible is THE TRUTH, preaches it without apology or compromise! God's Word says what it says; you either like it or lump it as the saying goes. My pastor used to say from the pulpit, “We don't give out menus around here. You just hold out your platter and we fork it over to you. You get what you get!” I love that, because that's the way the truth is, set in concrete! THE TRUTH cannot be altered.
Intellectually arrogant men try to sound scholarly, refraining from making bold, harsh or critical statements. I say the Pope is the vicar of HELL!!! That's the kind of preaching that the world needs today. We need a handful of John the Baptist preachers, who uncompromisingly and without apology preach THE TRUTH!!! The great need of our day is preaching preachers! Intellectually arrogant men are more concerned about their social status than getting the truth out. God deliver us from the apostate intelligencia! PREACH THE WORD!!!
Men may pervert the truth by changing it (Romans 1:25); but that doesn't mean that anything has changed in Heaven. Psalm 119:89 says that God's Word is forever settled in Heaven. It matters not what evil men may do to corrupt the Scriptures, God's Word still holds true as it is settled in Heaven.
But thankfully, God has promised to PRESERVE His Words unto every generation upon the earth (Psalm 12:6-8). Amen! Men have tried for thousands of years to pervert the Bible; but they have and will continue to utterly fail.
Retarded Scholars Deny the Inspiration of
the Precious King James Bible
There are many intellectually arrogant men today, who think they know more than God, who errantly deny that the King James Bible is inspired. These men are imposters! There are deceitful pastors today who claim to believe that the King James Bible is perfect, flawless, preserved, inerrant; but not inspired. They are retarded; not intellectual. God's Words will always be inspired, into whatever language they are translated. Jesus said in John 6:63 that His Words are truth and life. John 17:17 says that the Word of God is truth. Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Word of God is quick (alive) and powerful. The Bible is alive, because Jesus has risen from the dead and is also alive. In John 1:1-3,14 Jesus is called the Word, God, and the Word became incarnate in the flesh. Revelation 19:13 calls Jesus the WORD OF GOD!
It is tragic that so-called intellectuals are denying the Bible. I heard a pastor of a very large church, of over 10,000 people in attendance every Sunday, stand behind the pulpit and proceed to tell his congregation that the King James Bible couldn't possible be without error. He proceeded to point out minor spelling differences between various King James revisions, horribly shaking his congregation's faith in the King James Bible. There has never been another translation of the original 1611 King James Bible, only some minor spelling revisions. Modern translation are corrupt, based upon the corrupted Alexandrian manuscripts which Westcott and Hort based their work upon in the 1800's. ALL modern Bible versions are based upon the heretical work of unsaved Modernists, Westcott and Hort. They were pro-Catholic, pro-Evolution; they denied Jesus' deity, virgin birth and a literal Hell with fire.
God gave us the King James Bible for a good reason, i.e., because God knew that English would become an international language to accommodate the New World Order in the End Times. The King James Bible is the last Bible that the English language will ever have from God. It is not copyrighted either; unlike ALL modern perversions of the Scriptures that ARE copyrighted. Only God owns the true Bible. This is why the King James Bible is free to publish, copy, print, and no one can say anything about it. Try that with a New International Version [NIV] and you'll end up in court with Zondervan publishers.
My heart was terribly broken and tears came to my eye as I heard that apostate pastor deny the Bible. Could this be happening at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church? It did, and it's a spiritual disease spreading from church-to-church, destroying people's faith in the inspired and preserved Words of God.
There is no place in the Body of Christ for intellectual arrogance, for pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Beware of scholars who deny the inspiration of our beloved King James Bible.
