Carefully Handling God’s Word

Friends, the first four words that the devil spoke to our first parents formed a questioned… “Did God really say?” [1] His goal is to pollute or defile our understanding of God and God’s Word. No where in Scripture does God grant artistic license to alter it or to take lightly what He actually said.

I realized how bad the practice of using artistic license is as I got back to doing careful exegesis on Bible texts that I preach. Studying the text in the original language, checking the geography, checking the context of the passage, reading commentaries, and studying the passage in the light of the fact that the whole Bible points to Jesus Christ as being the one and only Lord and Savior of mankind. To represent Jesus accurately we need a relationship with Him and we need to ask Him to guide us by His Holy Spirit to represent Him well.

Beware of artistic expressions of God’s Word that add and takeaway from the original Bible text. 

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”

[1] Genesis 3:1

[2] 2 Timothy 2:15