One of the distinctives of our Christian faith is our doctrine of infallibility. So much so that the only religions on earth that have any doctrines of inerrancy or infallibility are those which imitate or borrow from the Bible. Christianity, though – the religion of the Book – mandates it. Why so? Because we have a high regard for ancient religious literature? Not hardly. Christianity is the religion of the Book (that’s with a capital ‘B’), because God, our God, is the God of the Book. The God who speaks in and through the Bible speaks a "necessarily" infallible word.
God is God through and through, beloved. What do I mean by that? Simply this: God is internally and eternally God, all knowing, all wise, all perfect IN ALL OF HIS BEING. 1 John 1:5 says this: And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. God, beloved, is God (with all of His attributes!) through and through.
This means that the perfection of God in all that He is, is also manifested morally. He is morally perfect. This is why God is able to be without sin. Understand that this doesn’t mean God is simply so clever that He can appear to us to be perfect when He really is not. God cannot lie, ergo God cannot sin. Many religions claim a god or gods who are very smart. Very many religions claim a god or gods who are not only morally inadequate, but morally reprobate -- and their adherents delight in these so-called Gods. The Christian doctrine you hear preached from this pulpit week in and week out is based on this one paramount fact: the Biblical doctrine of infallibility is an inescapable result of what the Bible teaches about who and what God is and His revelation to man. (Repeat?)
Our God, beloved, is the God of the Word. Psalm 138:2 says: "I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, And give thanks to Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth; For Thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name." This says, beloved, that everything that God SAYS (that is, His Word) is backed up by everything that God IS. His name and His Word cannot be separated.
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Given that God is a moral being, has He ever given an immoral command or required immoral acts from someone?
More directly, is genocide in the light of manifest destiny moral? If it is so during Joshua's time, why not today?
How could One that is infallible and all knowing ever do anything that causes Him regret? Why create humans if God regrets it (Genesis 6:6)?
Why allow Satan to inhabit the snake and turn humans from their obedience to God? Why lie to Adam and Eve and tell them that the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil would kill them. The Bible doesn't say that God told them they would eventually die, it says that "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (KJV, Genesis 2:17)
Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not straying from my faith, I'm just seeking an additional perspective...
Thanks in advance for your time.
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