| When warring against the Lord God, you cannot win! Oh, and you should also know that when persecuted the church grows even larger!! The gates of hell will not prevail against Christ's church. He has decreed it!
You would do well to remember that since the beginning of Christianity this has been attempted. Actually it started at Christ's birth. King Herod murdered all the male babies in an attempt to keep Christ from fulfilling His destiny. Didn't work.
The Roman emperor Diocletian had has soldiers destroy every copy of scriptures they could find early in the first century, in an attempt to stop the spread of Christianity.
Julian the Apostate was another emperor who tried to wipe out Christianity. None of which succeeded.
David Hume, a famous Scottish philosopher (famous skeptic) believed he had undermined faith in religion. He thought that he had destroyed the foundations of the Bible and that religion would soon become an ancient artifact. Ironicaly his house in Edinburgh became the headquarters of the Scottish Bible Society soon after his death! Tens of thousands of copies of the "hated" book were published there.
The last couple centuries have produced the so called "higher critics" of the Bible, that since the beginning of the 19th century would try to use the Bible against itself. They tried to prove that the Bible was an unreliable, unhistorical, and mythological book. At the same time archaeologists were coming to very different conclusions. Many of them began as unbelievers, skeptics who were convinced by people like Professor Sayce Petri Sir William Ramsey and D.J. Wiseman. When literally holding in their hands the cold facts of history, they finally concluded that the Bible was indeed a remarkable book. The more facts they uncovered from the ground, the more convinced they became that the Scriptures were indeed the Word of God, accurate in all it's details. By means of archaeology the supernatural accuracy of the Bible has been overwhelmingly demonstrated in recent times.
As Christians we are not called to a blind faith butto a faith in a Word that has been examined more than any other book in the history of the world. Every word, syllable, and accent of the book has been scrutinized by hostile critics for centuries. The Word of God still stands and still holds true, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. Jesus said," Heaven and earth will pass away, but my Words will by no means pass away"(Mark 13:31)
May all your thoughts be taken captive by the Holy Spirit of God. Amen  |