The Genesis Of The Gospel: The Bible's First Book, Biblical Authority and the Gospel

The Ministry’s Call to Defend Biblical Authority

Well, good morning. Everybody doing okay. That's a little bit hot. Actually, it feels pretty good in here. But who goes to sleep with fans in your house and this might knock me out all right, but I'm gonna tell you when our coordinator first told me that I've got the opportunity to privilege the speaker to apology of church.

I said they know I don't have a beard, right? It's like they're willing to forgive that this time. I didn't shave at all the last couple of days just as a sign of respect. The need anyway. But no, it's such a privilege to be here with you.

It truly is. My name is Brian Osborne. I'm a speaker and writer with answers and Genesis. I'll come back to that here in a moment. Let me just say a front though. It really is a blessing to be here. Dr. Pastor James White has been a blessing in my life over the years.

I've learned clean so much for him. I then your church. Apology of church and all that you do as a church has been a blessing in my life. I just signed up for all access not that long ago. I've been a friend from Boston you collision enjoy so much from that.

It's a blessing in my heart. We praise God for what you are doing here. We praise God for chance to partner with you to further the kingdom of God for the glory of God. And we are all about that. And so as I just sit here and I'm with you I am blessed blessed to be with the body of Christ to be here with you.

Thank you for allowing me to come be with you guys and it's such a privilege and let me say up front to. That typically when we do a presentation as a ministry, it's usually almost required. We have slides.

We have lots of pictures so the presentation I've given you today typically has around 200 slides with it. Just so you know. And so what I'm going to try to do to the best of my ability is to give the same talk because it is so important.

Without the picture. So this will be branded for me. You guys are my guinea pigs. So we'll see how this goes. All right, but I'm excited about the privilege. I hope it'll bless you. I think it will Lou it just about me before dive into the actual talk itself.

I've been with the ministry of entrance of Genesis for about 10 years. Like I said before that I was a public school teacher. I taught Bible history in a public school over in California. Can you believe that?

You shouldn't it wasn't California. It was Tennessee. You know that's not happening in California, but About tall for 13 years in a public school in Tennessee Bible history a very unique thing. My wife was a public school teacher as well.

And then I came to this ministry roughly 10 years ago. It's kind of my background. I have a wife a beautiful wife. Just one wife, by the way, and Been married for 25 years this past June was our 25th anniversary.

Which was a glorious thing and she is my greatest earthly blessings. You guys are missing out because you can't see pictures of my family as I talk about them. But I got two beautiful children Ian and Macy my son Ian.

He is 9 years old. He's all boy. He's incredible doing karate right now. Basketball stuff like that. My daughter Macy is 5 and she is a straight-up daddy's girl. And man, these kids are incredible. They're just my greatest earthly blessings and just say no God gave us our children through adoption.

It's kind of a cool testimony of our family as well. So that's another backstory for another time. But so that's my family and then I joined answers of Genesis roughly 10 years ago as I've said. And if you don't know who we are, we are those crazy people out in northern Kentucky who built Noah's Ark.

All right, that's our ministry and we're an apologetics ministry which as you guys will know doesn't mean to apologize for your faith rather to give an answer for your faith a Reasonable defense for why you believe what you believe rooted in God's Word and guys our passion in equipping Christians to give this defense.

It's not simply to give an answer to win a debate rather We want to give answers to proclaim the answer Jesus Christ. That is our passion. That is our heartbeat. And so as you go through we'll think we had the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.

If you never been to those two attractions under our ministry, I'd so encourage you to go over in northern Kentucky. I know it's a long trip for you guys. But we have the Creation Museum a 75 ,000 square foot walk through biblical history as we walk you through biblical history.

We're answering the skeptical questions of this age. We're showing people the Bible is true. It's right about everything past present and future and then we got the Ark Encounter a life-size replica of Noah's Ark and I'm telling You there's so much stuff you do at both attractions.

We have planetarium special effects theater virtual reality rides speakers every day. Presentations with animal encounters all sorts of great stuff. You can spend a good two days at each attraction. So if you get a chance to go and also encourage you to go and check that out.

It'd be such a blessing to you. And by the way, it'd be a lot better than Disney. Just throwing that out there. All right, but what I want to talk a man. Yeah. But what I want to do this morning is really lay a foundation for why we as a ministry are so passionate about the ministry.

God has really called us to this message. He's called us to proclaim in the world we live in today. And I'll say this we're so passionate about this defending biblical authority from the beginning starting in Genesis.

Because we've realized something. I know you've realized and that's this. That our nation is going in the wrong direction. Have you noticed that? Like it's not that hard to see right? We're seeing the utter collapse of the Christian worldview and it's not just America's been the entire Western world.

But the fact that's happening here. It's pretty astounding because if you think about it We are the most Christianized nation the world has ever seen in all of history. We have more churches than anybody else in the world.

We have hundreds of thousands of churches in America. We have more Bible colleges and more seminaries. We have more Christian schools and radio stations and television stations. We have more Christian resources than any nation has ever had in all of history.

I'm not a crazy thought but for all those Christian resources are we becoming more or less Christian every day? What's the answer? And less and rapidly so. Actually Newsweek back in 2009. I know you can't see this get my slides in front of me.

But Newsweek back in 2009 had a cover that said the decline and fall of Christian America and inside they said this. The present in this sense. It's less about the death of God and it's more about the birth of many gods.

Here's what they're saying. We used to be one nation under God, but never one nation under many gods. Isn't that great see how tolerant we are? But in truth at a foundational level, did you realize there are actually only two religions.

People say just to just to here. They are. Either God's Word is your authority and you build your thinking from there or reject God's Word. What are you left with man's ideas in some way shape or form as your ultimate authority?

Those are your two foundational religions and what we've seen in this culture and our culture has been a shift away from Biblical authority to be in the absolute foundation for our thinking in our culture.

So now man can determine what is truth for himself. Which is why truth is relative in our culture today because each person determines their own truth. And that's why our culture looks a whole lot like Judges 21 25 when there was no king in Israel.

Every man did that which is right in his? And man doesn't that describe the state of affairs in America today, that's why we see headlines like this one. Drag queen story hour brings pride and glamour to libraries across the u .s.

Headlines in the news like this one Kirk Cameron bought from reading his new children's book by more than 50 public libraries. Because it teaches biblical values. So in our public libraries, you can have drag queens, but not biblical teaching.

Virginia State lawmaker to introduce bill making it a crime for parents not to affirm their LGBT child. That didn't pass by other bills. Similar have passed in other places. Washington bill to allow medical transgender interventions on minors without parental consent.

That did pass. But we're told by the medical establishment. Don't call women pregnant. Don't call pretty women expectant mothers instead. Call them pregnant people. Because according to them anybody can't get pregnant.

We were told actually in North Carolina, which is my home state. There was a preschool there using LGBT flashcards to fitting a pregnant man to teach the kids colors. Mattel had their first ever transgender Barbie doll not that long ago.

Oregon essentially bans Christians from adopting based on the new legislation. Coca-cola has told their employees to be less white but also be white is bad because you're an oppressor. Part of critical race theory ideology.

And so if you're white you're part of the bad group. And CRT, of course is a racist ideology. TEDx speaker says pedophilia is a natural sexual orientation. New UN bat legal recommendations normalize sex with minors.

How about this headline. Two more will be done. 61 year old woman gives birth to own granddaughter for gay son using his husband's sister's egg. I'll give you a second to process all that. I did one more.

Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partners baby with female sperm donor. I could go on but can we agree for the sake of time our culture has lost its mind. We agree on that. Our question is why and I think the way we think about this questions as Christians is why isn't the church?

Why aren't Christians influencing the culture like we used to years ago? Guys, here's what we suggest because in so many cases today. It is the culture that is influencing the church. That's so often today Christians have compromised God's Word with the secular thinking of our age.

We've undermined biblical authority as a result. We're seeing the collapse of the Christian worldview. Now what has taken place has been an attack on the Word of God. Yes outside the church. That is true but also inside the church and we're seeing the consequences of that attack and they are catastrophic and the fact that God's Word is Under attack that's not new.

God's Word has been under attack since Genesis chapter 3 when the devil said to Eve did God really say. And notice what he was doing. Getting you to question God's Word to doubt God's Word to reject God's Word and The method was so effective.

He's used the same method ever since different forms the same basic attack. And one of the primary ways he's doing this today is through the teaching of things like evolution Amen, Big Bang and especially millions of years.

Using those who are ideas to get people to question God's Word doubt God's Word to reject God's Word. Same basic attack with a bit of a stealth ninja like twist. And that is he's attacking the Bible's history to undermine the Bible's Authority to undermine the gospel rooted in that authority.

Because here's the bottom line. We understand this if you cannot believe the Bible's history. Why on earth trust it about anything else. If you can't believe Genesis 1 1 why trust John 3 16 if you cannot believe what this book clearly says in the beginning.

Why trust the middle or the end? Hey guys for so many people today. This is their stumbling block to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Maybe though many Christians haven't realized that the secularists the atheists.

They understand this is a great way to undermine biblical authority by attacking the history to undermine that authority. Thus the gospel in that authority. Give you one quote from a very well-known atheist.

He's actually was from the Arizona area Lawrence Krauss he's a very well-known physicist former professor of physics at Arizona State University and It's not like America's version of Richard Dawkins.

But his whole goal is to try to use the teaching of evolution millions of years to undermine biblical authority. To pull people away from those fundamentalist views to have his view because he thinks his view is right because he's so tolerant and bigoted but anyway He said his goal was this he said change is always one generation away.

So if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children Religion will go away in a generation or asleep or at least largely go away. And that's what I think we have an obligation To do. I'm just glad he's neutral about all this.

But he's not right and nobody can be but he is right about one thing change is always one generation away. We see that biblical history numerous times. We see it happening right before our very eyes guys according to numerous studies now for decades an Average of around two-thirds of kids today who grew up in active Christian homes are walking away from the church by the time they reach college age.

Most of whom today do not return. Two-thirds and so we want to figure out why that's happening what to do about it. We did a research project with America's research group at Brent Beamer. We're interviewed a thousand these Millennials who have grown up in the church, but since walked away to try to figure out What's going on how to respond?

And let me just share two of the major findings. When we ask those who have walked away. When did you first have doubts? I want you to note something for most of them. It was not college. And That what we tend to think with our kids who walk away.

They seem to be fine while they're going through middle school and high school. I mean, they're crazy then but they're with us then they go off to the secular University. And that's when the secular professors in the environment there tends to pull them away.

That's our thinking right the corner research. Over 80 of those walking away had all these doubts. They had all these questions starting in middle school and high school if not before. They had all these questions that for the most part were not getting answered at least not at home and not a church.

What sort of questions? Was the same sorts of questions? I heard for 13 years teaching Bible history in a public school. Working for 20 years with each in church in different ways questions. Like if the Bible is true, then where did God come from and how come you know?

How's the Bible the Word of God and not the Koran and by the way who did Cain marry? It doesn't evolution and they ate been. Don't they disprove the Bible by the way I don't know get all those animals onto the Ark and where did the water come from for the flood and where did it go?

By the way, what about dinosaurs and the Bible. Aren't the rock layers millions of his old doesn't that this through the Bible? What about this and star like radiometric dating? Doesn't that disprove the Bible?

But why is there so much death and suffering in the world has a science disproved the Bible? Have you heard some of those? Maybe not that fast. We hit those why because this is primarily where the attack is happening today in so many cases.

You see for so many people and this day and age. They think the Bible has been bombed out by these sort of secular ideas that's been discredited. And here's the deal. They're coming to us for answers.

Hey Christian mom dad. Grandpa grandma pastor Sunday school teacher Christian friend co-worker teammate if the Bible is true. What about evolution? What about eight men? What about? Rock layers and fossils.

What about nowadays? What about sexuality and gender and marriage if there are any answers in the Bible? Why don't you give me any and what has been our? General response to those sorts of questions now for decades.

It's been something like this. Hey, you know what? I don't know about that stuff, but don't worry about it. Just trust in Jesus. Now don't misunderstand. We won't them to trust in Jesus. Amen. Amen Christian Church, right again.

Of course, we want them to trust in Jesus. But hear me when we ignore their questions and we just say that we're ignoring their fundamental question, which is this. Here's what they're asking us. Why should I trust in your Jesus?

Because the message of salvation through Christ alone that message comes from where? This book the Bible and hey mom dad grandpa Christian friend if I cannot trust the Bible over here. Why trust what it says here here or here?

Either all of this book is authoritative and true or none of it is and that is the core issue. That's really the passion that drives our ministry defending biblical authority and the gospel rooted in that authority.

You see for so many who do walk away. They're walking away in their hearts and in their minds before they ever leave physically for college. They're sitting in our pews in our homes right now, and they are all ready gone.

So we entitled the book of the research in it already gone. And when we asked them their reasons for leaving one of their main reasons for leaving was hypocrisy. We said okay kind of figured but can you describe explain explain that to us?

What do you mean by hypocrisy and this is what the majority said on their own it was not multiple choice. They said something along these lines. They said well. We grew up in church. And we were told in church that this book the Bible is the very Word of God.

Trust what it says, especially that part about Jesus. Then they said we were told in some way shape or form later on by a Christian friend pastor. So this was teacher parent a Christian leader. They respected in the culture.

They were told in some way shape or form that we as Christians. We don't necessarily believe the first part of the book. And you can take evolution eight men Big Bang millions of years you can take man secular pagan ideas and reinterpret the first part.

It's not that important. Just be sure you believe the rest of it and you trust in Jesus. And friends they see it as hypocrisy and rightfully so because it is. And because that for so many it's causing them to really question the Bible's veracity and walk away from the biblical truth from an earthly perspective when it's all spiritual battle ultimately.

And here's the deal. Maybe I'm sure that many of you like myself had the best of intentions like myself many years ago. We had the best of intention. We've said I don't know about that stuff. Don't worry about it.

Trust in Jesus. The guys even as Christians we have great intentions and so get the worst of consequences. True story about 25 years ago now. Wow, I'm getting old in any way. So 27 years ago I was at my in-laws house for Thanksgiving and my wife has two sisters and all three of them look alike.

Especially ten years ago so after the meal was done the guys watching football in the room over here and then I got thirsty so I walked into the Kitchen to grab a drink as I walk into the kitchen. My mother-in-law Kathy calls my name.

I look over to her. She's sitting by the refrigerator. We start talking in my peripheral vision. I see my wife leaning over the counter reading something and her sister Amy a little further over holding her newborn, baby.

So I just see my peripheral vision, but I say I don't need to look that's my wife. That's my sister-in-law. I played sports growing up. I was a point guard on a college basketball team. Good peripheral wife sister-in-law talking to mother-in-law as I'm talking to my mother-in-law.

I think to myself. I'm gonna love on my wife because I love my wife. So I scoot over. Never looked just start rubbing her back. And we're still talking. I go for two hands sort of like a little circle pattern because I love my wife.

And then I start massaging her shoulders because I really love my wife. And then as we're wrapping up this quick little conversation, I say to myself I'm gonna kiss my wife because I love my wife. And so I lean down her back to give her a kiss on the cheek and I look up and there's my wife.

Holding her sister's baby. Look at me like I did. I lost my mind and then right here my sister-in-law Amy was frozen in fear. And of course at that point man, I am just stuttering. I'm stammering. I'm backing up.

I'm like Amy. I am so sorry I said, why didn't you say anything? She said I didn't know what you were doing. I just froze so get our time about that from time to time, but Hey, I had some really good intentions, but got some really bad.

Consequences and on a serious note when we compromise God's Word with the secular thinking of our day, even with the best of intentions, you'll still get the worst of consequences. And also we found in the research.

That the way we were teaching the Bible is causing many to struggle with its veracity today that you can trust it. You say what do you mean? Well, so often today there's so many churches and so many Bible studies and Sunday school classrooms and so forth.

When we study the Bible we tend to say hey today, we're gonna look at this great Bible story. But what does the word story tend to mean in our modern language? Yeah fiction story fairy tale not true, right?

Maybe something with a moral or spiritual truth, but definitely not something connected to reality. And then of course, I'll show our kids pictures of Noah's Ark as an overloaded bathtub. Have you seen those with the drafts come out some sort of chimney of sorts out of this bathtub arc.

The monkeys hang out in the porthole. And those pictures are meant to be cute for kids. I do understand that my daughter's five. But kids are very impressionable. You show a kid a picture like that. Does that tell that child Noah's Ark in flood real event in history like the Bible says or fairy tale like the world says?

It's actually reinforcing a secular idea whether we mean to or not. And guys for so many people not just younger generations. They got all these questions are being bombarded with in our culture from so many different angles and in many cases they're coming to us for answers and.

Here's the deal for the most part within Christianity today. We are not giving them any. For the most part we are not doing apologetics in our churches today in our Christian communities for the most part.

We're just teaching biblical stories. Not teaching our people or ourselves to defend biblical authority from the beginning by sending God's Word. And so in a real sense, we've left those under our charge defenseless against the secular attacks of this age by giving them no answers.

And so if we don't give them answers, where do they go to get the answers? Well, the only other alternative which is secular sources. They go to secular textbooks and secular school teachers and they go things like uncle Google Wikipedia YouTube tick-tock Lord help them.

And they learn about from those places the real history of the universe. Evolution millions of years Big Bang to learn about all sexuality is fluid gender is fluid marriage me. Whatever you want it to be hear me in a real sense what they're getting our secular apologetics.

They're learning all the reasons the Bible must not be true and cannot be trusted. What are they getting a church? Stories. And we think about like that it's not so surprising so many are walking away.

Genesis as the Foundation for Marriage, Death, and the Gospel

And guys that history and Genesis that biblical history it is real history and it is really important. Actually biblical history is foundational to every single biblical doctrine. Did you realize that every biblical doctrine either directly or indirectly is rooted to that history in Genesis 1 to 11?

Every single one few quick examples. Where do we see the origin and definition of marriage that's found in the book of Genesis right chapters 1 to 11. Where do we see the origin of sin and death that's found over in Genesis chapters 1 to 11.

Hey, why do we practice a seven-day week? Where does that come from? Then only Genesis by the way, why do we wear clothes? I noticed that you are and that is good. Amen. That goes back to the book of Guys how do we know that every person no matter where they live in the womb or on the moon no matter what they look.

Like what their skin shade may be how tall or short they are how athletic or unathletic they are that every single person has Inherit indelible equal value because are made in the image of the Living God that comes from the book of Genesis.

Why did Jesus die on the cross? Why is he called the last Adam? Why do we need a new heavens and a new earth that all goes back to the book of? Genesis Foundation for every single biblical doctrine you take away that foundation the whole biblical Christian structure will collapse.

Like we see happening in our culture today. And let me just give you two quick examples of biblical doctrines being attacked by attacking that history in the book of Genesis. First one's a pretty easy second one's a bit more subtle, but they're equally important.

I Biblical doctrine of marriage is under assault. And it's interesting when Jesus was asked about marriage by the Pharisees. He did something radical and you guys know his way did. He quoted the Bible as the authority and he said to the Pharisees.

Have you not read? Translation don't you guys read your Bibles? That he who made them at the beginning that's important. Mark says beginning of creation made them. That's how we know fundamentally. They're only two genders and for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother be joined to his wife and the two shall become and He was showing that the doctrine of marriage is based on the biology and the history of Genesis being true.

You become one in marriage. Why it's based on the fact that the woman came from the man like the Bible clearly describes. The woman praise God did not come from the ape woman. Man, take a second to try to visualize an ape woman.

See how scary that would be praise God that did not happen. No, the woman came from the man and as Christians we can engage this culture. And we can tell them the marriage is to be between one man one woman for life.

Why? Because the God who made marriage he made it between one man one woman for life guys God made it he defines what it is and we find that in the book of Genesis but again if that history is not true and or God's Word is not the authority then why not Redefine marriage and make it whatever you want it to be.

Which is exactly what's happening right now in our culture today, which is why some people today have literally married their pets. I Read an article the other day someone married a piece of furniture.

Someone married a robot one lady true story. She married a tree. I I'm sorry. All right. I Try to limit myself to two dad jokes per presentation. I may break that today. Terrible joke but a true story.

That's what happens when you abandon biblical authority. And then let me give you another example of a biblical doctrine being attacked. That's a bit more subtle but equally important. That is the doctrine of death and its relationship to Christ's atoning work on the cross is also under assault.

You see what I mean? Well follow me on this. As you guys well know the Bible says that God made a perfect creation in Genesis 2 16 and 17 God so out of the day you eat of the fruit you'll surely. Of course scripture is clear that God made this world perfect and it was man's sin of our death the enemy into God's perfect creation.

Romans 6 23 for the wages of sin is. And then of course Romans 8 22 says for the whole of creation is groaning in pain. Why. Because of our sin and it's longing for Christ to return to return the world to its original perfect state.

We see the first death of an animal after Adam sinned. God kills an animal for the very first time in a sense the first blood sacrifice. To make clothing for Adam and Eve to cover their sin and their shame and guys.

That's a picture of Jesus Christ who comes later to shed his blood to cover our sin and our shame. And most will say okay Brian. We're with you on all of that. But where's the attack? Here it is. If you try to squeeze the secular Atheistic pagan idea of millions of years into the Bible no matter how you try to matter how good your intentions may be.

Inevitably, you'll put death before sin and death before sin is theologically impossible. For a bunch of reasons here a couple quick ones. First in Genesis 1 29 and 30 in the original perfect creation God told Adam and Eve they were to eat fruit the animals were to eat plants.

Originally all things were vegetarian. Which I know that sounds weird to us today because maybe you like me enjoy eating filet mignon wrapped in bacon. So I get it. It sounds weird. That makes really good biblical sense because think about it.

There was no death in this world until after Adam sinned. Which means you can't eat meat until after Adam sinned because when you eat meat you're eating an animal that has Died before sin. There's no death.

All things have to be vegetarian and by the way plants are not alive in the strict biblical sense. Actually, it's not till after the flood that God told Noah just as I gave you plants to eat now post flood.

You can eat everything and this is the reason you can eat a hot dog. Because it is everything. That's my second one, all right. I'm like, however. Kids are like what's funny about that. Don't worry about it.

Just enjoy the hot dog. Enjoy it. It's good. But why is this a problem? Here's why if we reject the Bible's clear teaching that God made a perfect creation. But didn't man sin bring a death unto the world and then there was a global flood that laid down most of rock layers.

And fossils we see today if you reject that what are you left with man's ideas? What does man say man says the rock layers were laid down slowly over millions of years. There are these supposed evidence for the millions of years.

So these rock layers based on man's ideas who weren't there. Rockers lay down slowly over millions of years watch this before man ever Existed and thus before sin and in those rock layers. Supposedly laid down before man before sin we find lots of evidence of animals eating each other.

But the Bible says before man sinned all things were vegetarian. We find out it's saying a fossil record lots and lots of evidence of diseases brain tumors cancer arthritis infections but before man sinned.

Guys, God would not call millions of years of death suffering bloodshed cancer. Very good. If he did he would not be a very good God. And by the way If that were true in a real sense God will be the author of death as part of his original very good Creation if we embrace that we're blaming God for death in a sense instead of our sin.

We find thorns in the fossil record that are supposedly millions of years old. But the Bible's clear thorns came after the curse their result of the curse and a symbol of a curse. That's our Christ wore the crown of thorns.

He bore the curse on our behalf. And friends most important of all If you try to squeeze millions of years into the Bible. No matter how you try no matter how good your intentions may be like mine were years ago.

No matter which method they age theory gap theory progressive creation theistic evolution framework hypothesis cosmic temple, etc. They all inevitably put death before sin and watch this logically and theologically.

If there was death before sin, that would mean death is not the consequence nor payment for sin. Just always been around and if death is not the payment for sin. That Jesus is death cannot and does not pay our sin debt.

And we just undermine Christ's atoning work on the cross whether we meant to or not. And friends can I tell you something. This is why we care so much about these issues. Our passion my passion is not about winning a debate about distant starlight or the age you're at the ready mature dating.

We give good answers to all those things, but the passion is defending biblical authority and the gospel in that authority. That's what's under attack. That's what's at stake. That's why this matters bottom line the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn't start in the book of Matthew and I like Matthew, but the gospel starts in the book of Truly does.

Someone say okay. I'm with you on all that Brian, but then wait a minute. Are you then saying that someone's got to believe in a young earth a six thousand year old universe and a global flood and a Literal Adam to be a Christian.

Are you saying it's a direct salvation issue? Not at all. What does the Bible say about salvation one verse right. John 3 16 for God's loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him and a young earth and a global flood will be saved.

If that's in your Bible throw that Bible away and get a real Bible. No, we know we're saved by grace alone through faith alone and Christ alone. So it's not a direct salvation issue, but it is an indirect salvation issue in a way.

Because where does the message of salvation through Christ alone come from that message comes from? This book and again if we can't trust this part of the book over here. Why should we trust the rest?

Either it's all authoritative or none of it is and dear friends you guys know this but here's the bottom line. We don't have the right nor the authority to treat God's Word like a buffet. We don't have Chipotle Bibles.

I'll take some of this but not some of that. I'll take John 3 16 Philippians 4 13 out of context. But not Leviticus 18 or Genesis 1 to 11 or something like that. And that's why it's so important that we obey God's command at 1st Peter 3 15 of Jude 1 3 2 content earnestly for the faith.