Way Of Life - Men Who Were Converted Trying To Disprove The Bible - Part 1 Of 3

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May 7, 2014 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

Above all other books, the Bible has been hated, vilified, ridiculed, criticized, restricted, banned, and destroyed, but it has been to no avail. As one rightly said, “We might as well put our shoulder to the burning wheel of the sun, and try to stop it on its flaming course, as attempt to stop the circulation of the Bible” (Sidney Collett, All about the Bible, p. 63).

In A.D. 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict to stop Christians from worshipping Jesus Christ and to destroy their Scriptures. Every official in the empire was ordered to raze the churches to the ground and burn every Bible found in their districts (Stanley Greenslade, Cambridge History of the Bible). Twenty-five years later Diocletian’s successor, Constantine, issued another edict ordering fifty Bibles to be published at government expense (Eusebius).

In 1778 the French infidel Voltaire boasted that in 100 years Christianity would cease to exist, but within 50 years the Geneva Bible Society used his press and house to publish Bibles (Geisler and Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible, 1986, pp. 123, 124).

ROBert Ingersoll once boasted, “Within 15 years I’ll have the Bible lodged in a morgue.” But Ingersoll is dead, and the Bible is alive and well.

In fact, many who set out to disprove the Bible have been converted, instead. The following are a few examples:

Gilbert West (1703-1756)

Gilbert West was included in Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. As a student at Oxford, West set out to debunk the Bible’s account of Christ’s resurrection. Instead, having proved to himself that Christ did rise from the dead, he was converted. West published his conclusions in the book OBservations on the History and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1747). On the fly-leaf he had the following printed: “Blame not before thou hast examined the truth.”



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[Dr. Roberson]

This looks like it will be an interesting read.

 

I'll look forward to the remaining parts.

 

 

Dr. ROBerson

[swathdiver]

While not famous, I too was once and for all trying to disprove the existence of God when instead He saved me.

[Ukulelemike]

Its interesting to note that, for these conversions, they converted took the words of the apostles at face value-assuming them to be not just good witnesses, but actual, truthful accounts of real people. More often than not today, people just conclude that none of them actually existed, all the accounts are invented centuries later by men who just used these names. Basically, thee was no REAL Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul or even Jesus. And as such, they can, with their own declaration of ignorance, snap their fingers and it all goes away for them. How shocked they will be one day to be face to face with the Great Judge upon the throne.

[John81]

That's the difference between actually considering a matter and simply deciding something is false and declaring it so based upon nothing.

 

Lost and saved alike seem to prefer the easy way. It's easier to simply parrot what someone else has said or to go along with whatever the popular view is than it is to actually study a matter out or get in the Word for themselves and see what's actually there.

 

Many, perhaps even most Christians in America, are very biblically illiterate. It's amazing how many professing Christians believe things like "God helps those who help themselves", and other sayings are actually verses in the Bible. At the same time, when you quote actual verses from Scripture they are often stunned that's from the Bible or refuse to believe it's from the Bible.

 

Shortly after I was saved and had that great zeal that comes with the newness of life in Christ, I remember wondering why so many people were calling themselves Christians and attending church faithfully but they weren't living according to Scripture and didn't seem to care what Scripture said about daily living. It wasn't until sometime later while reading the Word that I came across Jesus asking why so many were calling Him "Lord" but they weren't doing what He said.