The basic steps of a biblical approach to helping them… First, you understand the experience of depression. Second, you make tentative distinctions between physical and spiritual symptoms. Third, this distinction will allow you to focus on heart issues. In doing this, you will point the person to Christ as her hope in suffering, you will encourage her in her faith, and you will guide her in her battle with sin. This focus on heart issues may actually relieve the depression. Fourth, if the pain of depression is excessive, consider using medical treatments to possibly ease the pain.
Edward Welch

Is It Heresy

Is It Heresy

QUESTION: Is it “heresy” to believe that the King James Bible is perfect?

ANSWER: No.

EXPLANATION: It is amusing yet appalling that a King James Bible believer, who BELIEVES the Bible to be inerrant, is called a “heretic” by people who claim to believe that the Bible is inerrant.

“Heresy,” according to Webster, is “an opinion or doctrine contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs.”

It is “generally accepted” that the Bible is the perfect word of God. I have often told people, “I don’t believe that the King James Bible is the inerrant word of God. I believe that the BIBLE is the inerrant word of God. But if you ask me to give you a copy of that Bible, I’ll hand you a King James Bible.”

Critics of the King James Bible believe that the “Bible” is the inerrant word of God. BUT, ask them to hand you a copy of that inerrant Bible that they “believe” in, and you will find that it doesn’t exist anywhere on this earth!

We King James Bible believers simply believe what they CLAIM to believe. And for that we are called “heretics.”

Actually the “heretic” label is designed more to scare young adherents away from the inerrant Bible, than to honestly define the name callers’ feelings. It is hoped by the Bible critic that the fear of being labeled a “heretic” will discourage zealous Christians from REALLY believing what Bible critics claim to believe.

In fact, if it is “generally accepted by fundamentalists that the Bible is the inerrant word of God” and the Bible critic can find a mistake in every Bible that you put in his hand, then…who really is the heretic?