Authenticity Topic

Our natural tendency is to create our own definitions of purity—building longer and more impressive lists of rules every year. But if we want to please God, we must get our definition of pure religion from the Bible.

I recently preached on “Give Me that Old Time Religion.” But my text wasn’t from Jeremiah 6 about the old paths. In fact, the message itself wasn’t about the “old time religion” in the sense of preserving a culture from earlier days of fundamentalism.

In John chapter two, Jesus entered the newly refurbished Herodian Temple. What would His attitude be toward the pseudo worship of the Jews of His day? The building had not looked so good since the day of Solomon’s Temple, but buildings are not ends in and of themselves.

What does God say about His own Word? Some appeal to history as authoritative proof that the Received Text has been passed down from one generation of Bible-believing Christians to the next.