Pick and Choose!

My wife and I moved from outside of town last year to a neighborhood in town. My drive time to work has been reduced a tad. So in the time that I have been driving through the neighborhood I started to observe things. Like peoples driving habits. I have noticed that people drive all kinds of different ways around here. Some will do the speed limit but not use a turn signal. Or use the turn signal but speed. Pass other cars while they are turning in an intersection. Not pull over for emergency vehicles. Talk on their cell phones while driving. They'll run a stop sign or red light, but stop for the pedestrian in the cross walk. While watching this all happen over the last few months, I started thinking "wow, these people think that they can pick and choose what traffic laws they are going to obey or break." To me, if you are going to follow one, you should follow all. So like I always do, I started comparing this to the Bible. Everything to me comes back to the Bible. People seem to do the same with God's word. They pick and choose what scripture or verse to believe and ignore the rest. Or they believe some things are sinful, but others are not. They believe that murder, stealing and adultery are wrong, but believe that homosexuality is ok. Lying is ok. Blaspheming God is ok. None of it is ok. All are sin according to God's word. There is not one sin greater than another. All are equal in God's eyes. So we must not pick and choose which we are going to follow. Either we believe that the Bible is 100% inerrant and infallible, or it's not. If you don't believe that its all true, then none of it is true. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 New Living Translation (NLT)16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 17 God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 New Living Translation (NLT)13 Therefore, we never stop thanking God that when you received his message from us, you didn’t think of our words as mere human ideas. You accepted what we said as the very word of God—which, of course, it is. And this word continues to work in you who believe. Amen!