Wed, May 20, 2009
The Bible is a Book of Truth
The Bible is not just any book. It’s not just a book to swear on (which you shouldn’t do anyway). It’s not just a book to say, ‘Oh, that’s a good book,’ or ‘Oh, that’s a nice story,’ and then shrug your shoulders, and turn the other way.
The truth of the matter is that you are to live your life by it. But someone might say, ‘Why should I base my life on this book? Shouldn’t I think what I want to think, instead of this book defining who I am?’ The answer to every question above is ‘no.’ First, the Bible does define you – someone born into sin, loved by God, and made from the dirt. That’s what you are. And who would know you better than God himself? He knows you so well inside and out that “even the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Luke 12:7) KJV.
Secondly, God talks to us in the form of a book because, that’s how he decided it should happen. Back the time shortly after the Exodus, God gave Moses the Decalogue (Ten Commandments). These ten rules were engraved by God’s own finger on tablets of stone. Even Moses, who was the closest to God at the time, was only permitted to view God’s backside because no person could see God’s face and live (see Exodus 33:20). Now since we live under grace, if we seek God we’ll find him. But that’s why God did that way, the printed and not the visual word. He did it this way so that people won’t die at the very sight of him. It’s still like this today, only we probably won’t die if we saw God, but maybe cower a little bit. We can come to God boldly (see Hebrews 4:16), but we just have to seek him. Fasting is a good way to do it.
Man did not write the Bible – God inspired them to write (see 2 Timothy 3:16). You can’t just live the way you want to, don’t follow your heart, follow God.
“He is the Rock, his work (the Bible) is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4) KJV.
“(God’s) ways are everlasting (your way isn’t)” (Habakkuk 3:6) KJV.
“Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law (The Bible), which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments (not your own beliefs), and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Joshua 22:5) KJV.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are (God’s) ways higher than your ways, and (God’s) thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9) KJV.
Everything that was written in the Bible is true. So believe all of it, or none of it, but don’t butcher the Bible into parts you like and dislike. Even I have a hard time accepting some things in the Bible, yet I believe in all of it.
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) KJV.
The truth of the matter is that you are to live your life by it. But someone might say, ‘Why should I base my life on this book? Shouldn’t I think what I want to think, instead of this book defining who I am?’ The answer to every question above is ‘no.’ First, the Bible does define you – someone born into sin, loved by God, and made from the dirt. That’s what you are. And who would know you better than God himself? He knows you so well inside and out that “even the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Luke 12:7) KJV.
Secondly, God talks to us in the form of a book because, that’s how he decided it should happen. Back the time shortly after the Exodus, God gave Moses the Decalogue (Ten Commandments). These ten rules were engraved by God’s own finger on tablets of stone. Even Moses, who was the closest to God at the time, was only permitted to view God’s backside because no person could see God’s face and live (see Exodus 33:20). Now since we live under grace, if we seek God we’ll find him. But that’s why God did that way, the printed and not the visual word. He did it this way so that people won’t die at the very sight of him. It’s still like this today, only we probably won’t die if we saw God, but maybe cower a little bit. We can come to God boldly (see Hebrews 4:16), but we just have to seek him. Fasting is a good way to do it.
Man did not write the Bible – God inspired them to write (see 2 Timothy 3:16). You can’t just live the way you want to, don’t follow your heart, follow God.
“He is the Rock, his work (the Bible) is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4) KJV.
“(God’s) ways are everlasting (your way isn’t)” (Habakkuk 3:6) KJV.
“Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law (The Bible), which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments (not your own beliefs), and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Joshua 22:5) KJV.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are (God’s) ways higher than your ways, and (God’s) thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9) KJV.
Everything that was written in the Bible is true. So believe all of it, or none of it, but don’t butcher the Bible into parts you like and dislike. Even I have a hard time accepting some things in the Bible, yet I believe in all of it.
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) KJV.
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