If we consider the Bible and the prophecies written in it as hypothetical, allegorical, or figurative, but not the literal truth, will this stop the works of God?
No! God will continue with his divine purpose regardless of whether we believe or not. Isaiah 14:26,27, boldly announced to everyone that the things God has determined to do on earth among his people Israel and the nations, he will do; and no man can stop it. Even if they doubt or attempt to change the times by their technology, science, or laws; it all comes back to the fulfillment of his divine plan. It is impossible for any of us to turn back the hand of God.
All we do to ourselves when we doubt the word of God is to bring difficulty to our lives until the thing is preformed before our eyes. Case in point, the righteous priest and father of John the Baptist, Zacharias, doubted the prophecy of God given by the angel Gabriel, that he and his wife should have a son in their old age. He considered that Elizabeth, his wife, had been barren all her fertile years regardless of their prayers to God, which they accepted as God's will. And now here they are, past childbearing years and God pourposed that now is the time they should have a child for his divine plan(Luke 1:18-25) and he is amazed with doubt initially.
For his disbelief God took away his ability to speak till the prophecy was fulfilled; that when it came to past his faith would never waver again(Luke 1:57-64).
Yes, we may doubt, but it will never stop the works of God. One of the turest aspects of God is that he is not a liar or a man that he should repent of the things he has spoken (Numbers 23:19). In fact the scriptures says, let God be ture, but every man a liar (Romans 3:3-4). So, when we doubt or refuse to believe the Bible, we are the false ones, not his words. And, if you say why then hasn't this or that prophecy writen come to past after such a long a time- remember, Zachariah, above, God move in his appointed times and seasons. He does not move at our discretion or desire. He is God, above all things, including men, whom he created(Romans 9:16). Also, consider, 2 Timothy 2:12-13; if we deny God, he will deny us. And, if we don't believe God, yet he continues to be faithful to his word to fulfill it: he cannot deny himself.
Finally, therefore, we should fear God ( fear in the sense of honor, trust, and to be faithful to God because he is truth), so that the things he has promised us may come to us in their times, without the hardships that comes with disbelief. For God has made it quite clear that the unbelievers and the liars differ greatly from his people that trust in Him. Both hear the word of God, but it profit the unbeliever nothing in the end, for they lack faith and cannot receive the promises and blessing of God that he has prophecied since the foundation of the world( Hebrews 4:1-4).
Let us, brothers and sisters, be among the just that live by faith; who trust the word of God, never drawing back into doubt and disbelief. Because, our disbelief will never stop the hand of God, but it will only bring his displeasure towards us. Those who doubt and change not, end in perdition or distruction. But, let us believe to the saving of our soul, as Paul so eloquently put it in Hebrews 10:38-39.
Shalam,
Zarach
