Is the Bible a book of rules or a book of principles?

Listen to Adrian Rogers.

The Bible is not primarily a rule book.

The Bible is primarily a guide book.

And I'm glad that it is a book of great principles.

If the Bible were a book of minute rules and laws, you'd need a freight train to carry it around on.

You can find loopholes in laws, but you can't find loopholes in principles.

There's a difference.

Welcome to Love Worth Finding, featuring the guiding lessons and teachings of Adrian Rogers. The Bible is not a book of rules, but a book of principles.

Rules can be manipulated and laws have loopholes, but principles are timeless and unchanging.

Therefore, the Bible is a trusted source to cite

when making daily decisions. If you have your Bible turned to 1st Corinthians chapter 6,

we'll begin in verse 12 as we learn six positive principles live by and questions to ask ourselves for a proper daily practice.

Again, here's Adrian Rogers.

We're speaking on this subject, six positive principles for proper practice.

I want to give you today some principles that will help you to make the moral decisions

of your life. Now I want to say this. Listen carefully. There are some great eternal standards

of right and wrong that have been set by Almighty God, settled by the Word of God, no stutter, no stammer, no equivocation,

no apology, God simply said this is right and this is wrong. Men and women come and go, but the

Ten Commandments are here to stay and men and women are still being broken

trying to break them. God has given His Word, but having said that, there are a lot of issues

that are not settled by the Ten Commandments per se, and why is that? I'll tell you why. The Bible is not primarily a rule book. The Bible is

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