A BOOK YOU CAN TRUST

A BOOK YOU CAN TRUST?

First thing you are wondering which book you can trust. I don’t want to keep you waiting so let’s get started. Well the book am going to talk about is the Holy Bible which is commonly known as the Holy book for Christians.

The Holy Bible was written by human persons divinely inspired. It is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction. God is its perfect author. Salvation is its end. Truth, without error, is its essence. It reveals the principles by which God has saved us, and therefore is, and shall remain to the end the world, the true basis for Christian living, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions are to be measured.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction of the righteous: That you may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. (2Timothy 3:16-17, 2Peter 1:21, 2Samuel 23:2, Acts1:16, Acts3:21, John10:35, Luke 16:29-31, Psalms 119:3, Romans 3:1-2)

Every word of God is pure: He is a shield to them that put there trust in Him. (Proverbs 30:5, John 17:17, Revelation 22:18)

For as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. (Romans 2:12, Romans 3:4)

And if you here my words, the word I have spoken, the same shall judge you in the last day. (John 12:47-48, 1Colossians 4:3-4, Luke 10:10-16, Luke 12:47-48)

You may think you cannot understand the Bible but Jesus said: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to babes. (Meaning babies). Even so, Father: For it seemed good in your sight. (Matthew 11:25-26).

The Bible is the simplest book of all to understand. It is called the revelation. When something is revealed, it is clear. The Holy Spirit will open your understanding so you can comprehend it, if you will just read it. (John 14:26, 1John 2:27)

Blessed are they that read, and they hear the words of his prophecy. (Revelation 1:3)

Another reason you can understand it is because every truth is repeated over and over. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (Deuteronomy 17:6, Deuteronomy 19:15, Matthew 18:16, 2Colossians 13:1, 1Ti 5:19, Hebrews 10:28)

That principle is mentioned repeatedly in the Bible. If something is not repeated enough to be absolutely clear, it s not a vital doctrine which is essential to your salvation.

The Bible is simple because it is written in clear language and it needs no interpretation. The Bible is a book written to be exactly as it is written. It means what it says.

God is the author, so He needs no assistance. He is the master communicator. He has said what He means. Accept it. People who say the Bible is difficult to understand usually do not want to believe what it says.

Remember that it was written to be understood by the most unlearned and simple people, so that even the wayfaring though fools, shall not err therein. (Isaiah 35:8)

Paul said to Timothy, from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures. (2Timothy 3:15) He speaks of the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Colossians11:3)

The learned religious leaders in Jerusalem who arrested Peter and John because of the miraculous healing of a crippled man were dumbfounded by this undeniable wonder. (Acts3:1-9) Certainly no credit could go to these two men. When they saw Peter and John, they perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men. (Acts 4:13)

Another reason the Bible is easy enough to understand is that God expects people to hear it and to believe it to be saved. Since salvation is for whoever wills, the Bible must be simple enough for anyone to understand. Whoever believes (the gospel) shall not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Abraham Lincoln said, “Take the entire Bible that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better person. It is the best book which God has given to humankind.”

Napoleon Bonaparte said, “The Bible is more than a book; it is a living with an action, a power which evades everything that opposes its extension.”

Woodrow Wilson said, “A person has deprived themselves of the best there is in the world who has deprived themselves of the Bible.”

Eight hundred scientists of Great Britain signed a statement recorded in the Bodelian Library at Oxford, which, among other things, declared: “We conceive that it is impossible for the word of God written in the book of nature, and God’s word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another.” Their objective was to, “express sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted …into… casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of then holy scripture.”

Daniel Webster, 19^th Century American statesman, said, “The Bible is the book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is a book which teaches human beings their responsibility, and heir dignity, and their equality with their fellow human beings.”

Those who wrote the Bible claim to have been inspired by God. They indeed were, or they were liars. It is hard to conceive that forty different authors would have the same idea to lie about the same thing. Those forty people who wrote the sixty-six books during more than 1600 years about one central theme of creation and redemption by God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, and were not in contact with each other (except the apostles).

It really does not make sense that, being spread across nearly 20 centuries of varying societies, they would all conceive a common deception.

Nor does it make sense to doubt the Bible because the creation story or the resurrection of Christ cannot be scientifically verified. Critics ridicule Christian believers by asking: “Were you there when God supposedly created the world?” or “Were you there when Jesus Christ was said to have risen from the dead?” But the same questions apply to unbelievers. They were not there when spinning evolution of the universe was supposed to have taken place. Were they there when lower forms of life evolved from their surrounding mass of confusion and followed their mysterious interrelated phenomena of development to the status of humankind?

If evolution was the correct theory, it would seem that when you die, you would return, by reverse process, to the confusion from where you are alleged to have evolved.

But you do not. You return to the dust. Every grave on earth bears scientific proof of this fact. Give enough time, only dust remains and the dust substance out of which the Bible says God first created Adam:

And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)

And every human being that dies returns to dust.

All of the basic questions of our origin, our existence, our purpose and our destiny are clearly answered in the Bible, by forty different authors who wrote 66 books spanning over 1600 years. If they all lied about their being led of God to write, it seems extremely illogical to believe that so many great and honorable people of their times would conceive the same deception.

It makes sense to me to believe the Bible and to trust God’s written promises. (John 5:24)

The Bible was written on two continents, in countries separated hundreds of miles, spanning over 16 countries of time. Part of it was written in Syria, another portion in Arabia part of it was written in Italy and Greece. Some of it was written in the desert of Sinai, some in the wilderness of Judea. Part was penned in the cave of Adullam, some in the prison of Rome. Some came from the Isle of Patmos and other parts from the places of mount Zion, and Shushan. Some portions were written by the Rivers of Babylon and some on the banks of the chamber.

There exists no literary phenomenon in the world to compare with the Bible. It was written by herdsmen, Sheppard, politician, fishermen, princes, poets, philosophers, statesmen, prophets, priests, publicans and physicians.

Every form of literary structure is displayed. There is a history, poetry, pros, prophesy, letters, proverbs, parables, allegories and orations.

Yet there is no discord. It is unity and cohesion is one of the great miracles of human history. There is perfect harmony from Genesis to Revolutions. Everything in it agrees with all the rest of it, because it was inspired by one master designer God. It constitutes one unit, each section begins interwoven in the other sections although the others lived in epochs spanning nearly to millenniums.

Can you imagine the incoherent labyrinth that would result in one volume like the Bible if 40 clerks, judges, politicians, rulers, fishermen, clergymen, doctors, laborers and other type of people spanning 16 countries had written on almost any subject it could only be a disorganized, and inharmonious.

Take the subject of medical science alone. Can you imagine the contradiction of information that would be evidenced by writers spanning so many centuries.

The bible ,which treats subjects covering the whole range of human inquiry, is one book, with out a flaw of incoherency, containing one system of doctrine, one plan of salvation, one order of the ethics, one rule of faith, one story of love and redemption from one curse of sin.

The bible came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spoke (and wrote) as they moved by the Holy Ghost. That is the secret of this literary Miracle which we call the bible, and that is why all part of it are so intertwined with the others.

The Ten Commandments which were given to Moses find their only fulfillment in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, recorded 1,500 years later.

Isaiah’s prophecies, written 700 years before Christ, is unfolded in the record of the gospel.

The book of Daniel, written about events dating from 650 to 535 B.C, and the revelation, written in the 96 A.D., fit together in perfect precision.

Leviticus, dating 1491 B.C., defines the epistle top the Hebrews written 1555 years later in 64 A.D. then Hebrews, in turn, is only understood by comparing it with the book of Leviticus.

The last book of the bible is like a dome flashing in noonday splendor to crown its whole unity and is mysteriously entwined with the very fist chapter of the bible.

The story of Christ is gradually unveiled throughout the bible;1] in the old testament, the preparation for the coming of Christ is made;2]the gospels are the record of His manifestation;3]the book of acts the propagation of Christ’s gospel;4] the epistles contain the explanat6ion of his message;5] in the revelations we have presented the consummation of his return.

The great American evangelist, Billy Sunday, wrote a very marvelous and eloquent tribute to the Bible.

“With the holy spirit as my guide, I entered in the at the portico of genesis, walked down the corridor of the old testament art-galleries, were pictures of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Isaac, Jacob, and Daniel hang on the wall. I passed into the music room of the psalms where the spirit sweeps the keyboard of nature until it seems that every reed and pipe in Gods great organ responsible to the harp of David, the sweet singer of Israel.

”I entered the chamber of Ecclesiastes, where the voice of the preacher is heard, and into conservatory of Sharon and the lily of the valley where sweet spices filled and performed my life.

“I entered the business of proverbs and on into observatory of the prophets where I saw telescopes of various sizes pouting to far off events, concentrating on the bright and morning star which was to rise over the moonlight hills of Judea for our salvation and redemption.

“I entered the audience of the king of kings, catching a Vision written by Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. Thence into correspondence room with Paul, James and John writing their epistles.

“I stepped into thorn room of revelation where tower the glittering peaks, where sits the kings upon his throne of glory with the healing of the nations in his hand, and I cried out:

All hail the power of Jesus' name, let angles prostrate fall, Bright forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.

A BOOK YOU CAN TRUST

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A BOOK YOU CAN TRUST