"Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition. . . and many such like things do ye"  (Mark 7:13).

Our Lord Jesus Christ uttered these sharp words of rebuke to the scribes and Pharisees, who had encumbered the plain teachings of Scripture with their numerous "interpretations" which enabled them to ignore whatever teachings they found inconvenient. The Lord Jesus Himself always took the Scriptures literally and as of divine authority, and so should we.

Furthermore, He taught that every word was true and authoritative: "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (Matthew 15:18).  He also said that "the scripture cannot be broken" (John 13:35).

Skeptics may pose certain difficulties in the Bible, evolutionists may ridicule its account of creation, and sinners in general may try to wriggle away from its moral constraints, but the Scripture cannot be broken! Jesus said, "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 14:48). 

Jesus Christ Himself is the living Word of God, and we dare not tamper with the written Word inspired by the Holy Spirit.  Our Lord Jesus Christ could and did on many occasions extend and apply the Old Testament Scriptures, because He Himself was their Author, but Christ never questioned their factuality or literal accuracy, and neither should we. 

In-fact all the Apostles quoted and used the Old Testament scriptures to prove New Testament realities.  They had no other source of written authority than the Old Testament.  It was the Holy Spirit that opened the eyes of the New Testament writers, and gave them the ability and understanding to write what we now have as the canon of scriptures, known to us as the New Testament.

Nevertheless, many modern "alleged Christian intellectuals ',  and many cultists are following in the example of the Pharisees, rather than that of Christ, "wresting the Scriptures"  for their gain but "unto their own destruction" (II Peter 3:16). 

We have no authority to use only the easy to accept portions of God's Word, but we must proclaim and believe the Whole Counsel of God's Word.

 For the great Apostle Paul has stated, "For I have not shunned to declare unto you All the Counsel of God." (Acts 20:27)

God has spoken plainly in His Word. It is our responsibility to believe and do what He says.

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