That’s right, everyone. God is under review. He may not be deemed “appropriate.”
At least that’s the story from the Keller, Texas, Independent School District.
In case you haven’t heard, the Bible, along with a few other books, has been temporarily removed from the Keller ISD libraries.
Why? Because it has “been challenged by community members as being inappropriate for schools.”
And just who would these “community members” be? No one is saying.
So the Bible, which is God’s written word, has been moved to a “Parental Consent Area,” where God will be put on trial to determine if what he “inspired” (2 Tim 3:16) is “appropriate,” and by extension, whether He will be.
Really? And just who is so mighty, authoritative, and worthy to judge God’s appropriateness?
According to the apostle Paul, no one.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Now, some might argue, “But, they’re not sitting in judgment of God. They’re merely ‘reviewing’ the Bible to determine if it is ‘appropriate’ for all the children in our schools.”
But, once again, when a person “reviews” the Bible to determine its appropriateness, its suitability, its rightfulness, then that person has exalted him- or herself and sits in judgment of God’s appropriateness, suitability, and rightfulness, since the Bible is (1) God’s inspired, written, revelation to mankind, and (2) the Bible is the equivalent of God expressing himself!
In John 7:42, a confused mass of people, kind of like so many are today, including those at the Keller ISD, asked, “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was”?
The answer is, yes, but it was God who made that revelation—which became a part of the Scriptures—evident hundreds of years before Christ ever appeared on the scene, when He moved the prophet Micah to write, “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient of days” (5:2).
In Romans 9:17 we read, “For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.'”
That is taken from Exodus 9:16, where God is addressing Pharaoh amid all the catastrophes striking Egypt due to Pharaoh’s obstinacy in refusing to let the children of Israel go.
When Paul wrote, “For the Scripture says, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,’ and, ‘The laborer deserves his wages'” (1 Tim 5:18), those words are not just arbitrary and impersonal statements that fell upon the pages and then stuck there.
They were the words of God Almighty, as he instructed the nation of Israel just prior to their crossing into the Land of Canaan—The Promised Land!
The point is, when you pick up the Bible and read it, you’re reading what God has revealed about Himself and His creation, all of which is absolutely true, and in no need of humanistic approval as to its appropriateness, suitability, or rightfulness.
Instead, the self-appointed critic needs God’s approval, and above all God’s forgiveness and redemption, both of which the secular critic scoffs amid his/her arrogance.
Nevertheless, this is just another attack upon God and His Word that has been going on since the dawn of time.
God has long-since disappeared from the educational system, as well as from many so-called “Christian” churches.
So, it naturally follows that the Bible would follow suit.
Whether or not it returns to the shelves at the Keller ISD remains a mystery.
What difference would it make anyway, given the hostility of secular educators towards God in the first place.
They’re not going to encourage students to read it, nor are they qualified to expound upon it.
To them it’s all a myth, and in today’s educational system, they’re about “science.”
And we all know “science” is unaffected by faith, much less faith guided and granted by Almighty God.
Don’t we?
