by Emmett Smith

The past week's headlines have featured numerous stories about Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama Supreme Court's Chief Justice. While the main thrust of the major media has been the so-called "separation of church and state", the actual point of conflict is the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and the failure of Federal Judges and the Supreme Court itself to adhere to Constitutional guidelines. The trend throughout my lifetime and before has been, that if what the Constitution says limits what these folks want to accomplish, well, just "interpret" the document differently.

Thus the plain words of the text are said to have taken on completely new meaning. Such rulings as Roe v. Wade and the recent ruling against Texas' anti-sodomy law have been the result. However, the Constitution is not the only document being re-interpreted to suit peoples' fancy. The Bible is subject to similar tactics, and they're by no means new. The evil one has always hated the truth and has exerted great effort to adulterate it. It's really easy to do, because only a slight, nearly unnoticeable change is all that's necessary to change the truth into a lie.

Paul wrote in Romans chapter one that certain ones had, "changed the truth of God into a lie", and that this had resulted in what can only be described as homosexual behaviors (Rom. 1:24-27). Of course many other evils are also inevitable when God's truth is perverted, but isn't it interesting that the exact same thing is happening now? A large ad in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette touted a "Universalist Church of Christ", and went into some detail in explaining how the Biblical doctrine of hell was incorrect, and that Jesus' sacrifice was for everyone, regardless of their behavior.

It should be obvious that if we reject the Bible's authority in one area, we are really being hypocritical in insisting that any of its teachings are valid. But it seems that many don't bother to give it that much thought. And of course that's just the way the evil one wants it to be.

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5).