I have found auto-correct to be both very helpful and very entertaining. I love reading those articles of other’s auto-correct mishaps. I have even had a few of my own.
In Matthew 19, we read the story of the rich young ruler. At the end of the story it says
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
I have heard people speak on this scripture at least a half a dozen times and somehow I have always read that to mean a needle going into a camel’s eye. And I would think to myself “that wouldn’t be so hard. Especially with a little anesthesia.” Then one day it finally occurred to me that it was the camel going through the needle!!! WOW!!! What a new meaning! I’ve also heard some theologians apply it to the name of the gate to the city but either way, boy was I off!!!
I think many Christians auto-correct the Bible. Sometimes it may just be an accidental switch but more often it seems to be a purposeful change to fit what we think it should mean.
“God can’t be that mean so it must be figurative speech.”
“That’s way too hard to do, it’s just something to strive for.”
“He didn’t mean sell everything.”
“Hell is too harsh for a loving God so it must not be real.”
“There’s no way He meant me when he said that.”
We try to rewrite the Bible so that God fits into the image we believe he should be.
But we can’t.
God is exactly who Scripture claims him to be and He meant everything He said. Whether we like it or dislike it, agree or not. God is an all or nothing God. Take Him at His word. Follow him completely. No auto-correct necessary.
-The Pastor’s Wife
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