Where In The Bible Will I Find:

By Your Words?

The Bible discusses at length the power of words - both for good and for evil. Solomon gives many examples of how the tongue can destroy and how it can bless. "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger" (Prov. 15:1). "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it" (Prov. 15:23).

Our Lord warned about the danger of misusing our tongues and then added: "For by your words thou shalt be justified, and by your words thou shalt be condemned" (Matt. 12:37). God has wonderfully blessed human beings by enabling us to communicate with words, but we must be careful what words we use and how we use them. Liberal theology has taken perfectly good Biblical words and prostituted them for its unholy agenda.

For example, "inspiration" is a translation of the Greek "theopneustos" which means "God-breathed" (II Tim. 3:16). Liberals deny the divine inspiration of the Bible, but still retain the word inspiration. By the word "inspiration," they usually mean that writing has great power and beauty, but the words of Scripture are not the words of God.

Liberals may also apply the word "inspiration" to the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and Tennyson. For liberals, "resurrection" means that the spirit of Jesus is still alive in the hearts and minds of His followers. They say there was no bodily resurrection, but there is a revival of our Lord's goodness, graciousness and love. The so­called "prochoice" movement has abused perfectly good words. The word "prochoice" itself is one of them. Everybody is prochoice in some areas, but prochoice in modern times means "pro-death."

Legally, a mother has the choice of killing her baby, but the baby is not given a choice. The abortion supporters seldom speak of babies - especially babies still in their mother's bodies. They use expressions, such as, "products of conception," "an acorn is not an oak tree," "mass of protoplasm," "interrupting a pregnancy," etc.

Everybody - including proabortion supporters - know they mean killing babies, but they religiously refrain from such simple, straightforward English. Attempts to deceive people by changing the meaning of words show that hearts are not right. "...for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaketh" (Matt. 12:34).

Breaking the barometer will not prevent the storm from coming; neither will their changing the meaning of words prevent the judgment of God: "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:48).