A CHOICE – Another way to look at it - 2025

 

Believing the Bible is God’s inspired Word is not a salad versus chocolate cake issue.

It’s a salvation issue.

It’s a who are you going to serve issue.

It’s a choose your side issue.

It’s a live or die issue.

It’s an issue of who you are going to spend eternity with.

Joshua said, “Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)

God does not accept being blended in with other gods. We’re either going to serve the world, its “habits” and traditions and trends, and its ever-changing so-called standards of good and evil — or we’re going to serve God and walk the narrow path He gave us, with the instructions He wrote. Not only did He tell us how to walk in this world and be holy and acceptable in His eyes, He gave us His very presence and power and Spirit to help us do it.

You can’t serve the world and serve God at the same time.

Romans 8:8 says, “They that are in the flesh cannot please God.”

Ephesians 6:12 tells us plainly: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

If you can’t see what we’re wrestling against, then how are you going to defend yourself in the fight?

The Bible is what shows you the invisible. The spiritual realm. The truth about what’s really going on behind what we see. It’s how we learn God’s Truth — His perspective, His wisdom, His will, His heart. It’s the one book with power to save your soul. You deny it, you lose that.

Romans 1:20–23 says,
“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.”

Faith is believing what God says — even when you can’t see it yet. It’s trusting Him, obeying Him, following Him. Because you know He is who He says He is.

James 1:21 says, “Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”

Jesus said in John 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

1 Peter 1:21 says,
“Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.”

We have no problem believing in invisible things like wind, electricity, gravity, or atoms. We believe in black holes, even though we can’t actually see them. Scientists believe in things based on patterns and evidence and reasonable conclusions. But when it comes to the invisible God? People suddenly treat faith like it’s silly or childish.

Even Darwin and Einstein believed there had to be a Creator behind all this. Darwin might have had a change of heart late in life — I’ve read he regretted some of what his theory did to the world’s view of God. Einstein is the one who said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” That’s not just poetic — it’s truth. Nothing is random. And Romans 13:1 backs that up when it says all authority, all power, is set in place by God Himself.

So if we believe God is real, why would we think He wouldn’t communicate with us? Why would we believe in a silent God who leaves us guessing? He gave us His Word, breathed by His Spirit, written down and preserved across thousands of years. There’s no other book like it.

Hebrews chapter 11 is the faith chapter. It says,
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.” (Hebrews 11:1–2)

Faith is evidence of what isn’t seen. It’s real, and it’s tangible. And that whole chapter goes through story after story of people who believed God — even when it looked crazy from the world’s perspective.

Hebrews 11:3 says,
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

And then come the examples:
By faith, Abel offered a better sacrifice.
By faith, Enoch was taken up and didn’t see death.
By faith, Noah built an ark before it had ever rained.
By faith, Abraham left everything familiar and went out not knowing where he was going.
By faith, Sarah received strength to have a child when she was way past the age.
By faith, Abraham was willing to offer up Isaac — knowing that even if Isaac died, God had the power to raise him from the dead.

They all died in faith — still believing, even if they hadn’t yet seen the promise come to pass. Hebrews 11:13 says that. They confessed they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They knew there was something greater ahead.

Deuteronomy 30:19–20 says,
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cleave unto Him: for He is your life, and the length of your days…” (paraphrased)

He says, choose. And not just for you — for your children, too - those you are commanded to teach about HIM. Choose life, blessing, love, truth, obedience.

The faith chapter ends with people being tortured, imprisoned, killed, and afflicted — all because of their belief in what was unseen. And the Bible says the world wasn’t even worthy of them. (Hebrews 11:38)

So yes, believing the Bible is the Word of God is a salvation issue.

It’s about who you trust.

Who you follow.

Who you obey.

Who you belong to.

And who you’ll spend eternity with.

This isn’t about salad or chocolate cake. This is life or death. Truth or lies. Light or darkness.

Heaven or hell.

Choose wisely.

And keep your wicks trimmed. The KING is coming.