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It never fails. Point out a contradiction, an atrocity or an absurdity in the Bible to a Christian and you will be told that you shouldn’t be so literal, so legalistic; that the Bible is to be taken metaphorically; or through ‘feelings;’ or understood ‘spiritually;’ or you should remember to take the Bible ‘in context’ of the time it was written. They will even quote the Bible to prove one should not quote from the Bible. But what does the Bible itself has to say on the subject? Does the Bible claim it is the occasionally true word of a sometimes correct God that applies when we feel like it? Or does the Bible claim that it is the perfect and eternal word of an unchanging, all-knowing God who is the same as (and makes the same demands as) Jesus?

The Law of God is Eternal

• God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of a man that he should repent. – Numbers 23:19
• The Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. – 1 Samuel 15:29
• I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent. – Ezekial 24:14
• For I am the Lord, I change not. – Malachi 3:6
• With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. – James 1:17
• It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. – Leviticus 23:14,21,31
• Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. – Psalms 119:151-2
• Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. – Psalms 119:160
• Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:18-19
• It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. – Luke 16:17
• Now are we sure that thou knowest all things. – John 16:30
• Lord, thou knowest all things. – John 21:17
• Of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. – Colossians 2:2-3
• We ought to obey God rather than men. – Acts 5:29

God’s Law (Old Testament) is Jesus’ Law (New Testament)

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – John 1:1
• And the Word was made flesh [Jesus], and dwelt among us. – John 1:14
• Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. – John 8:58
• I [Jesus] and my Father are one. – John 10:30
• The Father is in me, and I [Jesus] in him. – John 10:38
• And Thomas answered and said unto Him [Jesus], My Lord and my God. – John 20:28
• For in Him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. – Colossians 2:9
• Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. – Titus 2:13
• Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. – Philippians 2:6
• Fear not; I am the first and the last. – Revelation 1:17
• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. – Revelation 22:13

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)