Today’s Thought “Negatively Pervasive” G. Ward

 

“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19

 

There’s despair in some concerning Holy God’s word and who wrote it. Periodically, it can carry deeper sociological implications for some ethnicities that feel left out. We’ve been so self-absorbed that we neglect seeing the essence of the letter from God unto mankind filled with “whoever will,” If any man,”etc. I believe upon 14^th century’s invention of the printing press, the hand written expression on parchment celebrated more honor towards Holy God’s word.

We now have a new movie celebrating the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (The Son of God, produced by Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey). As minorities have been bombarded with many canvas depictions and great movies like The Ten Commandments and The Passion of Christ (featuring mostly those of European decent), there’s now a demand from some in this modernity for casting supervisors to employ minorities (i.e. not just those who have Hispanic or Anglo within their family scope, while appearing very Caucasian) with intentional diversity. Furthermore, when some are not granted this, boycott becomes eminent.

If I hear another Black militant declare that the bible perpetuates man’s oversight, it will be too soon! The bible is without errors or speculation, so no man is capable of such authorship. The geography of the bible has predominantly embraced the Middle East; so if a White man wrote it Black Hebrews and those of the Nation of Islam, I believe he would have thrown more Europe in it. This unfortunately is the very sociological contamination I prefaced this thought with. The reverberation of sociological disenfranchisement of some can cause great embitterment. Moreover (if he wrote it), shouldn’t he have deleted how Holy God regards no man over another, but loves us all the same. Well, I’m so thankful that Holy God is the Author (cf. 2 Ti.3:16-17)! Why don’t all you naysayers insist that Tyler Perry or Spike Lee make a movie honoring Christ vs. some illicit behaviors we’ve seen from their productions (NO HE DIDN’T)?

Happy Friday!