Monday, 21 May 2012
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The Importance of the Bible
The Bible is considered the most important book in the world, simply because it is God's word. When you read the Bible, you read a message from God Himself. When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
Because the Bible is God's Word, it does more than just pass on information. It makes a promise, a promise of life. Everyone who receives the Bible's message in faith, is promised the rich gift of eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son.
The Bible came from God Himself. God chose several people to write down what He wanted them to. Through God's inspiration the Bible was written down by people who did not make up these words themselves. The Holy Spirit drove them to speak on behalf of God.We need the Bible because no one can live fully without knowing God's true Word. True life consists of obeying God's every command. We can trust the Bible, because God's Word is true and all promises will certainly be fulfilled.
The Bible is not too ancient to carry meaning for us today. It is a living book that speaks to people's hearts in every time and place. God's word is full of strength and life. It is sharper than the sharpest sword; it penetrates immediately to our deepest thoughts and desires and shows us clearly who and what we truly are.The Bible is unutterably useful in your daily life, because it teaches you how to lead a life full of use and sense that is pleasing to God. The bible teaches you the truth and demonstrates any lack in your life and faith. It brings order to your life and shows you what is right and good.
The greatest joy you will receive thanks to reading the Bible is that it leads you to the Lord Jesus Christ. It shows you how you can be saved, namely through faith in Jesus Christ through whom you may receive eternal life.
What has been the impact of the Bible in your life? In what ways have you seen scripture influence your life? What is the most important thing you have learned from the Bible?
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Mark 8:36. "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" Powerful verse for me personally.
So simple yet so true. People try to make such a fuss over what the Bible is, what it means, who supposedly wrote it, who really wrote it, etc. We do whatever we can to not submit to it.
God bless you!
Books give the reader access to the minds of the countless authors. That's why being able to read is so important.
The average person can access the minds of genius.
With the Bible man can access the mind of God.
Frankly, I feel like I could gain more wisdom applicable to my daily life by wandering blindfolded into the self-help section of a bookstore and purchasing the first Chicken Soup for the Soul my hands fall upon.
Proverbs 23:9
The only reason I would personally believe in the existence of God is through Pascal's Wager.
@Theophilus166@xanga - Beyond making the occasional remark, it's why I have left off discussing things with bibliolaters any more. Talking to walls is inadvisable.
Numbers 31:17-18 : Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
If God inspired that to be written, then He's a monster. Better to throw the book away.
@Lovegrove@xanga - What if all those people were wicked to the core, a clan of Adolf Hitlers?
God is good. So what he demands is good.Who are you to pass judgment on the Creator?
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - The implication of course is that you think it would be moral and good to kill all the families of all the Nazis, including those of the rank and file as well as the leaders.
To make it moral, would swords, spears, strangulation and dashing babies against rocks (as Psalms reveals could have been a method utilised) be necessary; or could modern means such as gas chambers and mass shootings be permissible?
What uses the pubescent virgins could be put to is unspecified, the implication is that Moses and by further implication God did not care. Therefore, would enforced buggery and fellatio of these small terrified girls, oops I mean heathen idolaters, be permissible? Seeing as slavery is even encouraged in scripture (by laws being made on how to deal with having slaves) then it would appear that selling them on to the brothels of the Hittites as rather tasty and tender sex slaves, would be financially viable?
@c0cd3d_n_l0ad3d@xanga - We know that cause and effect is a physical principal of our universe. If we trace all causes back and back we arrive at the first cause. That first cause is God.
You have just read a three sentence proof of the existence of God. If you still do not belief in God then you do not belief in proofs based in reason.
If you don't believe in reason then you are an atheist.
@Lovegrove@xanga - That is not the case since I am not God and cannot pass the kind of judgement that your example requires.
I am not God or his chosen.
So there is no implication. There is merely the fact that God is good and what he does is good.
Moses acted under orders from God, consequently what Moses did was good.
You cannot hallucinate an alternate reality or a set of hypothetical examples to argue against God.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - Please bring out those three sentences again, I'd love to be able to repost the blog I made tearing it apart. I believe that was right before you got banned last time. How'd you get back on to Xanga? I'm sure the staff at Revelife, who banned you long before that, would also care to know that fact.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - You're either a troll as many say or lack empathy to the level of psychopathy. I prefer the former as the idea that there are Christians out there who actually take your evil statement seriously, is shudder inducing. Maybe that's your rational, to induce hostility towards Christianity.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - Determinism has been scientifically disproven.
Thanks for playing.
@NeverSubmit@xanga - Sorry but you don't get to re-label the universe. Every effect has a cause. Or has your god done something different in the reality you inhabit?
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - I just did. I posted them right there in front of your eyes. Can't you see them?
Using someone else's logical proof would be you still using logic. You have my permission.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - You're funny. Google quantum mechanics sometime.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - Oh, I thought you meant your old three prong argument. I didn't think the one you had posted was real, since it's not logic. Your third sentence, "That first cause is God" is just something you've said, not something you've proven or reasoned out. It isn't predicated on the previous two sentences. You could just as easily say "That first cause was a cosmic sneeze" or "That first cause was a unicorn fart" or "That first cause was me thinking existence into being."
@NeverSubmit@xanga - I studied quantum mechanics at university. I know exactly what I'm talking about I don't need Google to tell me what I can see with my own eyes.
You are just spouting New Age malarky masked as science.
Cause and effect is a physical principal of our universe. Just because we don't understand how it works on the quantum level doesn't mean the principle is not true.
As we unravel the quantum realm entire new technologies will be develops. Btw, technology is proof of the principle of cause and effect. If cause and effect were not true there would be no science or technology.
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - I rarely give arguments of my own. I borrow from greats like Aristotle and other geniuses.
You aren't mocking me. You are mocking the great minds of Western science.That would be typical for an atheist. And the best way to discredit an atheist is to get out of the way and let them do it themselves.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - So what great mind did you borrow that from?
Also great to know you don't do any thinking on your own.
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - My genius is taking the complex and making it simple. I took the Greek arguments that usually take up pages and reduced them to three easily understood sentences.
But because logic is opaque to atheists it is totally expected that you can't understand something so simple.
Your response to high level thinking is aboriginal grunting and fear masked as aggression.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - "Greek logic" is an overwhelmingly large realm. Are we talking Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Diogenes, Epicurus, Zeno... who? Many of these men has contradictory viewpoints, so saying the "Greek logic" is like saying "the American skin color." It's going to differ based on which one you look at. So tell me, which great philosopher are you paraphrasing? And since I'm apparently an idiot atheist, please feel free to provide me a link so that I may better understand your wisdom and prescience.
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - I didn't say Greek logic, you did. And neither did I say or imply that all Greek thinking was alike, you did.
When you get done arguing with yourself you may want to go take a shower and get cleaned up.