Bible News and Biblical Views

 

 

The problem with the Bible

That we daily hear,

Are the very many contradictions

We often find in there.

 

Throughout the Old Testament

And into the New,

There are contradictions galore

That is a popular view.

 

Look at the many denominations

Which are all around,

The primary reason for this

Are these contradictions that abound.

 

These accusations and more

You will regularly hear

Day in and day out

Each and every year.

 

In this poem

I want to suggest to you

That it is about high time

That we change this view.

 

I wrote a poem

Entitled “News or Views”

In which I attempted to show

That the views often eclipse the news.

 

For having heard the news

We turned to the views

And thereupon, we adopt the views

And lose sight of the news.

 

That’s exactly what

Has happened to God’s Holy Word,

What it says it does not mean,

Isn’t that absurd?

 

 

Another term for the Gospel

Is the Good News

But the Good News has been distorted

By a myriad of views.

  

Each view, a denomination

With an adherent following,

With its Bible based views

From its pulpit loudly bellowing.

 

And since all cannot be right

The Bible is blamed

For the very many contradictions

That are preached in Jesus’ name.

 

Theologians and apologists

Argue to and fro,

Each advancing the Spirit’s conviction

That theirs is the way to go.

 

And the gullible adherents

Often blindly follow,

Convinced that their leaders

Are the only ones that know.

 

 

Therefore, I hereby announced

That the winner is the views,

The news become secondary

To the views that we choose.

 

“I believe” and “it is my opinion”

Are two of the terms we use

To relegate the Good News

And promote somebody’s views.

 

I have observed over time

With programmes on the air,

Preachers are preaching

What they want the people to hear.

 

Their views are the focus,

There is little of the Word

And the way believers drink it in

Makes one feel disturbed.

 

On the radio and television

On the Internet and from their pulpits

It’s the views about the news,

Which are given the credit.

 

 

We read Bible commentaries

And then go to the Bible

And what the commentary says

Becomes the chief principle.

 

Salvation adherents are divided

By two predominant views,

These are the views of two dead men  

Which are still making the news.

 

Each one of them wrote it

The way he saw it

And hundreds of years after

It is still the edict.

 

“In my studied opinion”,

Or “via research diligently pursued”

Has become the fulcrum

For many a denomination’s view.

 

The Catholic or Protestant

The Evangelical and Jew

These are all built up, quite evidently,

On somebody’s view.

 

The Church’s one foundation

Is Jesus Christ the Lord,

This is not the view of a songwriter

But it is God’s Holy Word.

 

That Jesus is the only Saviour

Must not be one among many views

But must be the headline and the body

Of the ever-breaking Good News.

 

 

Jesus is come to save sinners

Of which I am chief,

The Good News for me today is,

That is my belief.

 

May the radio and television broadcasts

Reach out to sinners with the Good News

As opposed to preaching to believers

To convince them of their views.

 

May the year 2021 be a watershed

For the preaching of the Good News

Across Barbados and the World

And not for the advancing of our Views.

 

Stewart Russell © January 2020