ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men can believe that God so failed in His effort to devise a perfect plan for human salvation, that the very men who so need that salvation can exhibit such superior wisdom as to find imperfections in God's plan, and, themselves, improve upon it? Is it not incongruous that men who, admittedly, cannot save themselves, presume to sew the patches of human creeds over God's handiwork?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men can believe that God so miserably failed at understandably communicating His perfect will to mankind, leaving him to grope in the blindness of ignorance for truth, or to depend upon the self-appointed tutors who interpret, explain away, liberalize, change, add to, and take from what God has said, in order to make comprehensible what HE tried so hard to make plain to all?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men can believe that God firmly declared: "Behold I, even I, am God, and there is no God beside Me ..." and yet believe that He will indifferently tolerate the invasion of puny men into both His speech and His silence, as they presumptuously challenge God's wisdom with their own petty foolishness?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men will acknowledge that Christ is Lord and Lawgiver, the only One through whom God speaks to men, and then blithely set aside His Law to follow their own willful ways, assuring themselves and others that the Lord will be pleased with their doings?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men will affirm that the church, just as the Lord built it, is wholly sufficient to fulfill God's design for it, and then set up human organizations and institutions to do what they claim the church alone is unable to do?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that men who avow a belief in the God of the inspired Bible, "In Whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," then render their service to a tragic comic caricature of a god so vague and uncertain that he can be swayed to and fro by the fanciful wishes and notions of mere mortal men?
ISN'T IT STRANGE THAT MEN CAN BE SO STRANGE - as to believe that a God whose will they have despised, whose authority they have usurped for themselves, and whose Law they have not kept, will receive them up into heaven, where, presumably, they would continue throughout eternity to plague Him with their lawlessness?
ISN'T IT STRANGE - that such men cannot seem to understand that "He that believeth not shall be damned!!" will be the tragic epitaph on the tombs of many who were not so-called "alien sinners?"
Isn't it strange - that this article, written nearly 30 years ago, is still true today! (KMG)