A Bible-believing Christian is a Christian who believes
that all 66 books of the Bible are the Word of God, without error or
contradiction. It is not necessary to believe that the Bible is God’s Word in
order to be a Christian. It is only necessary that a person be born
again in order to be a Christian. (see What
is a Christian? ) However, it is
necessary to believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of
God in order to live the Christian life and be classified
as a “Bible-believing Christian.”
A Bible-believing Christian must
believe that everything in the Bible is the Word of God and
thus true. A Christian who only accepts parts of the Bible as being true is not
a Bible-believing Christian. He may be a Christian--if he is born again--but he
is not a Bible-believing Christian. Even if a Christian
believes 99.9% of the Bible, and there are only a few verses that he does not
believe, he is not a Bible-believing
Christian.
There are many people who claim
to be Bible-believing Christians. Even many so-called
ministers claim to be Bible-believing Christians. If
you talk to them they will tell you that they are born again and that they
believe that the Bible is the Word of God, without error and without
contradiction. But when you begin to question them on some of the various
doctrines of the Bible, they then say that they don’t believe this doctrine and
they don’t believe that doctrine. If the Bible says something, or if a
particular doctrine is in the Bible, and a person refuses to believe it, then
that person is not a true Bible-believing Christian.
In
order to be a Bible-believing Christian, you must believe everything and every
doctrine that is in the Bible.
Some of the most obvious examples of
this are the doctrines about water baptism, being filled with the Holy Spirit,
the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit listed in I Corinthians 12:8-10, and what a
minister of the gospel is. A person who does not believe what the Bible says
about these things is not a Bible-believing Christian--even if they say that
they are!