From Bob Jones Jr
From the old Faith Magazine For The Family (Aug. 1975 or 1976, the print is a little blurred at the bottom of the page) we read this remarkable devotional by Bob Jones Jr.
“When Paul was preaching at Lystra, he saw a man who had been lame from birth. Paul saw in that man . . . the faith of healing. Paul said ‘stand.’ From the standpoint of REASON AND LOGIC, THIS WAS AN IMPOSSIBLITY. Reason argued, `You are lame, you cannot stand.’ Faith answered, ‘You can stand, do it.’ The man REJECTED THE LOGIC OF REASON. He hearkened to the voice of faith and stood, and once upon his feet the man found that he could walk also. How often God works this way in human lives. He commands us to do that what is seemingly impossible. When we leap to obey we find we can do something far greater.”
You wouldn’t believe it, but this is applied as follows.
“Today those who sincerely believe God will have the faith to put themselves in the place where God can work a miracle even when logic argues, ‘you are unable to put yourself there.'”
That is one of the most amazing things you ever read in all your life. That is from a president of a university where every staff and faculty member in that school believes that belief in the King James Bible as the scripture is illogical and unreasonable. Bob Jones III recently wrote a letter to Tim Lee saying that he was not reasonable and that his granddaddy, Bob Jones Sr., had always said, “Good men are always reasonable.” The most unreasonable thing you will ever see on this earth is the creedal statements of the faculty of Bob Jones on final authority. I have all of them right here. Two faculty members say that the King James Bible is from inferior manuscripts and the Alexandrian manuscripts are the best and oldest manuscripts. One of them says that Westcott and Hort were orthodox and conservative Christians and that none of the Alexandrian manuscripts contained heretical readings in them. Both of them recommend the dark age Jesuit text of Rheims (1582) for their students as manifest in the ASV and the NASV. The president of the school insists that the school be identified with the King James Bible from “late manuscripts” and people who speak at Bob Jones have to use a King James Bible from the pulpit while the King James Bible is being ridiculed in the classroom on the campus. I have all this material in writing from the faculty and also from eyewitnesses.
Now tell me something: how can anybody that unreasonable (and “good men are always reasonable”) write a homily on faith overcoming reason and logic while rejecting the Holy Bible (AV) as the scriptures on the grounds that such faith or belief is “unreasonable” or “illogical?”
Look at it this way, “When Ruckman was preaching at Detroit, he saw a man who had been an infidel ever since he graduated from Bob Jones. Ruckman saw in that man . . . the faith of belief. Ruckman said ‘believe the Book.’ FROM THE STANDPOINT OF REASON AND LOGIC THIS WAS AN IMPOSSIBILITY. Reason argued, ‘it isn’t the original autographs. It has had several revisions.’ Faith answered, ‘You can do it, believe it.’ The man rejected the historic position of the twentieth century Christian schools, hearkened to the voice of faith, and believed. Once upon his feet, he found out he could run. How often God works this way in human lives! He commands us to believe something which is seemingly impossible. But when we leap to believe and obey, we find we can do something far greater. We can find revelations that God has denied to every Hebrew and Greek scholar on the face of this earth.”
That is what should have been printed in Faith For The Family. Bob Jones’s “devotional” was a joke. They pull off a lot of them up there these days.