Are They Truly Saved?

Why do we let people live in the lie that they are saved even though they are addicted to porn, alcohol, or drugs? Why do we not call a sin a sin? If we ignore this fact, then why do we oppose homosexuality? No wonder Christians are seen as hypocrites. No wonder those in Islam hate the western world. They say that Christianity is responsible for adultery, pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, and other sins. They say this because we have distorted the definition of "Christian." We call those who continue to live in sin Christians. This is not being judgmental, rather it's evidence that demands a verdict, and God has given us a standard to follow and that is His Son Jesus Christ. Are we allowing people to go to hell because we cannot look them in the face and tell them that they are still sinners and deserving of punishment? What has become of us? I fear that we have lost the Gospel message in an effort to love sinners, but by doing so we have abandoned them to their sin. The Gospel message is that Christ died for our sins and, although we are deserving of punishment, He has taken that punishment upon Himself. Now does that mean that we just say a prayer and that is it, we are saved? No! When we truly repent and the Holy Spirit is in us, we will have the strength to break free from sin; anything less is doubting the power of God. In the story in John 8:3-6, Jesus told the woman who was caught in the act of adultery, and, by Jewish law, deserved to be stoned to death, that since none of her accusers condemned her, neither would He. However, here is where I fear that we miss a very important point. He tells her, "Go. From now on sin no more." This is very important and if we choose to ignore that then we are just as guilty as those who we allow to live in their sin. In John 5:14, Jesus says to the man that He healed at the pool of Bethesda, "Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you." How can we ignore these things that He says in the Bible? Preach His love and His saving power, but do not skip over His standard for our lives through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Scripture was divinely inspired by God so that it is truthful in all it affirms.

What is it that makes us question the inerrancy of the Bible?  Why will we not accept verbal inspiration pertaining to the writers of the Bible?  Pilot asked Jesus if he was a king.  Jesus answered that he was correct, that He is a king.  Then Jesus said, “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth.  Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice” (John 18:37).  Pilot asks, “What is truth?” (John 18:38).

Jesus started His ministry quoting from the book of Isaiah.  Those in the synagogue asked Jesus to read from the Scriptures.  At this request Jesus opened the Scriptures to Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 and 2 and He began to read: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor.  He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”  Jesus closed the book and said, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21).

Thousands of years have passed between the books of the Old Testament and those of the New Testament.  However, Jesus affirms what is written in the Old Testament.  He mentions Abraham, Moses, the prophets, and He quotes from the Old Testament.  Yet there are some who question the inerrancy of the Bible as if to question our Lord.

The truth that Pilot was asking for is the Bible, the revelation of God.

A wrong view of inspiration will lead to the wrong view of inerrancy which will affect our worldview.  If God is removed from the inspiration of the Bible then we don`t have to listen to what it says and everything becomes subjective.  We will choose what we want to believe as it is in the Bible and ignore the rest.  The evidence of this is the moral decay in our lives.

Many people claim to be Christian and have a distorted view of Biblical Christianity.  Their Biblical worldview comes from the world outside of the Bible.  There is no real difference between Christian school students and public school students. 

How many people have been hindered from learning the truth because of those who teach or preach a wrong view of inerrancy?  Even though this very topic, Biblical inerrancy, has been debated for hundreds of years it is important to try to shine some light on it in the hopes that it will lead some to repentance and save souls from the grasp of those liberal scholars that will face judgment.