For centuries, the Bible was caged up in monasteries and limited to only the spiritual elite who decided for everyone else what the Scriptures meant. Then Martin Luther—a German monk who became the catalyst for the 16th-century Protestant Reformation—came along and “turned the Bible loose” for all to read. It was translated into the language of the people so they could read it and be transformed by the power of the Word and the Holy Spirit.

The Bible then became more than just a spiritual book to be read by monks; it was released to the people of the world as the Word from our Creator. Revered by scientists and peasants alike as the key to understanding all truth, God’s Word empowered the common man to act as image bearers of the Creator rather than slaves of an establishment. This new understanding of scripture rekindled the human spirit and brought in more liberty and prosperity than the world had ever known.
 

Of course, Satan, the father of deception, was not going to just lie down and give up. He conjured up another strategy to again cage the lion of God’s Word and relegate it to the status of mystical writings. One of the greatest attacks on the Bible—initiated during the Enlightenment period of the 18th century and propagated in the 19th century and following—was to introduce the concept of millions of years and evolution into explaining how we got here.

Sadly, much of the Church has since compromised the authority of the Bible with these satanic lies. In the eyes of the world, the Bible has been relegated to a place of obscurity and has lost its relevance to topics that are of significance to society.

Consequently, the Bible was once again “caged,” seemingly confined only to the church. Even the Church did not rise to the occasion and declare with confidence that science has not proven the Bible is a myth. Instead, Christians distanced themselves from science, reinforcing the notion that the Bible is only a spiritual or mystical book instead of it being the origin of scientific principles that, in fact, confirm creation and order by the Master Designer. The Christian witness today has deteriorated to a plea to blindly disregard all the scientific evidence and join us in the “cage of mystical truth.” 

It’s time for Christianity to actively address real science and our true history found in Genesis even as the world heaps on mountains of unanswered attacks against the authority of the Bible, insisting it is a myth. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer (defense) to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15).

Reasons for Hope (as well as other creation ministries) stands as a modern-day Martin Luther with the courage to confront the Church for its compromise and complacency. Our goal is to uncage the Lion, to call the Church and the culture back to the authority of God’s Word, and to let the Bible do what it is supposed to do.

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