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How Can I Know the Bible is True?
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Have a headache? Take two leeches and call me in the morning.
If you consult a medical text from the last century,
that may be the remedy you find. Today a textbook would probably tell you to pop a couple of aspirin. Tomorrow… Lasers?
Magnetics? A beam from the Starship Enterprise? Who knows what advancements or discoveries will change how a simple
headache is treated? It is amazing how much the science of medicine has changed even over the course of the last hundred years.
How will we ever know when we have really found the answers?
66 - 40 - 1500 - 1 What do those numbers mean? The Bible is made up of 66 books that were written by 40 writers over the course
of 1500 years. But in all of those books only 1 message is found. The message…we have a problem (and it isn't a simple headache).
Our problem is our sine and the guilt that it brings. That one message is also about the remembered for our problem - God sent Jesus,
a perfect Savior, to die for our sine and guilt. Now believers in Jesus have the promise of eternal life in heaven. That simple
message of salvation is repeated throughout the Bible from Moses' writing in Genesis to the writings of John in Revelation.
How amazing that so many different writers from different times record a single message that reveals the world's only true Savior from
sin!
Maybe it isn't all that amazing. "For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along
by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21). The very same God who loved us enough to send his own Son to die for us, made sure that we would know
about Jesus by having his message written down. Because God had men record his Word, the Bible is unlike any other book. We are told that
"all Scripture is God-breathed" (2 Timothy 3:16). God himself spoke through/breathed into these writers so their words are really God's word.
Since the Bible is God's Word we can trust that is true.
God is speaking to us through the words that he caused to be written in the Bible. Join us at our church where we gather to hear what important
things he has to say to all of us.
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