Today many Christians are so embarrassed by the Bible that we deny what it says rather than risk looking bad in front of our friends. This is an amazing turn of events considering that the Protestant Reformation was fundamentally a return to the authority of Scripture. The Roman Catholic Church had relegated the Bible to a secondary status beneath church tradition and papal authority. Men and women suffered persecution and even death to put the Bible back into the language and hands of the common people. This return to scripture fueled the Reformation. For a good while reformers championed the slogan, Sola Scriptura, meaning that the Bible only has supreme authority when it comes to truth, faith, and practice. But something happened along the way that caused many in the church to become so ashamed of the Word of God that we felt the necessity to reinterpret it in a way that its authors never intended. We fell into the satanic trap of elevating something else to a higher authority when it comes to practical truth. Today we call it “science.” The Scientific Revolution led many in the church to abandon its simplicity of faith in God’s Word in favor of adopting popular evolutionary theories of astrophysics, biology, and sociology.
Thankfully, many believers today accept the Genesis account regarding the creation of man and denounce biological evolution as a lie.
What is puzzling, however, is that many of these same people seem to have no problem at all endorsing modern evolutionary astrophysics and heliocentrism, even though it requires us to twist the text of Genesis Chapter One into an unrecognizable form.
Jesus said he is looking for people who are unashamed of him and his words. (Luke 9:26) I would rather endure the ridicule of those who reject the Word of God in favor of the ideas of men rather than have the one who inspired the Bible be ashamed of my betrayal of his trust.
Isn’t it time for the church to repent of our worship of science and return to Sola Scriptura?
