IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT THE BIBLE.
THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN IN SUCH A WAY, WITH DOZENS OF SEEMINGLY CONTRADICTIONS!
IT IS WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT YOU HAVE TO SEARCH AND STUDY, AS THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID, "STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED BY GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT BE ASHAMED, RIGHT DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH" - 2 TIMOTHY 2:15.
RIGHTLY DIVIDING MEANS PUTTING IT TOGETHER CORRECTLY. IT MEANS YOU FIND ALL THE VERSES ON ANY GIVEN BIBLE TOPIC [A BIBLE CONCORDANCE LIKE STRONG'S AND SAY NAVE'S TOPICAL BIBLE] - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER TO FIND THE TRUTH ON THAT SUBJECT. THIS ALONE CAN TAKE HOURS AND HOURS OF STUDY, FOR MANY YEARS, TO COVER ALL THE MAJOR TOPICS IN THE BIBLE. BUT WEBSITES LIKE MINE, HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU ON ALL MAJOR TOPICS..... A LIFETIME SO FAR FROM AGE 19 TO MY PRESENT 72 YEARS COME 9/11 2014 ONCE AGAIN.
WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRADICTIONS AS THEY MAY SEEM, WELL MORE WORK IS TO BE DONE. THERE ARE KEYS TO HELP YOU SORT THROUGH IT. BIBLE STUDY KEYS I'VE GIVEN YOU ON MY WEBSITE.
SOME HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK IN THAT DEPARTMENT ALSO, COLLECTING THE SO-CALLED CONTRADICTION AND WORKING AWAY TO ANSWER THEM. FOR ANSWERING MUST BE DONE, AS JESUS SAID THE "SCRIPTURES CANNOT BE BROKEN" - THERE IS NO REAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BIBLE. I AM BUSY UPLOADING DOZENS AND DOZENS OF THE SO-CALLED CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE.....UNDER "HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE" ON MY WEBSITE.
IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO HAVE A SOLID FOUNDATION, WHICH TAKES US BACK TO PROVING GOD DOES EXIST!!
WITH ALL THE PhD SCIENTISTS TODAY THAT BELIEVE THERE IS A CREATOR, A MASTER DESIGNER, WHO MADE THE UNIVERSE, SET LAWS IN MOTION, AND CREATED THIS WONDERFUL BLUE PLANET AND ALL THINGS UPON IT; WE HAVE A WEALTH OF MATERIAL TODAY, THAT ANSWERS THE ARGUMENTS OF THE SECULAR EVOLUTIONIST ATHEISTS. THE CHRISTIAN PhD GUYS AND GALS I'M ALSO UPLOADING SOME OF THEIR RESEARCH AND WORK, SHOWING THERE MUST BE A GRAND DESIGNER BACK OF ALL THE PHYSICAL THINGS WE HAVE IN THE UNIVERSE. YES THERE ARE PhD PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD.
BUT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT OF DISBELIEVING THE BIBLE IS THE INSPIRED WORD OF THE GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE; YOU WILL BE ABLE BY A SUPERFICIAL READING, A NOT WILLING TO LOOK AT THE ANSWERS TO THE ARGUMENTS OF THE AGNOSTIC "TRASH THE BIBLE" TEACHERS; IF YOU WANT A WAY OUT TO SERVE GOD, ACCEPT JESUS AS PERSONAL SAVIOR, ACCEPT THE BIBLE AS MYTHS AND MADE UP STORIES, LIES AND CONTRADICTIONS..... OH WELL YOU WILL FIND PLENTY TO SUPERFICIALLY GRASP AT AND TURN YOU AWAY FROM THE BIBLE, AND HENCE JESUS AS SAVIOR.
GOD HAS WRITTEN HIS WORD IN A WAY THAT THE VAST MAJORITY CAN THROW OUT THE BIBLE IN THEIR LIVES...... FOR AS PAUL SAID, TO FIND TRUTH YOU HAVE TO LOVE TRUTH, DESIRE IT ABOVE ALL ELSE; TO SPEND TIME DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH AND THE ANSWERS TO THE SO-CALLED CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE.
YES THERE ARE YET THINGS TO FIND THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY TO SHOW THE BIBLE IS HISTORICALLY CORRECT WITH EVENTS AND NAMES. BUT I CAN TELL YOU ARCHAEOLOGY HAS MADE HUGE PROGRESS IN THE LAST NUMBER OF DECADES, AND ARCHAEOLOGY HAS AND IS ESTABLISHING THAT THE BIBLE IS CORRECT IN ITS HISTORY AND NAME PLACES. WE JUST YET MUST UN-EARTH MORE, BUT PROGRESS IS BEING MADE.
YES THERE ALL KINDS OF WAYS FOR THE NO SEARCHER FOR TRUTH, ONLY LOOKING AT THE SKEPTIC SIDE OF THE COIN, TO GIVE YOU A WAY OUT FROM FOLLOWING THE BIBLE, AND JESUS AS ONLY SAVIOR.
I'M FEELING TARA CHAPMAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE SAME PIT AS MY FRIENDS SISTER DID MANY YEARS AGO. HE TOLD ME HIS SISTER WAS A DEDICATED CHRISTIAN; SHE MARRIED AN ATHEIST. HE WAS VERY WELL EDUCATED, TEACHING FOR MANY YEARS IN A LOCAL UNIVERSITY NEAR CALGARY. HE HAD A BIG WORLD-VIEW MIND, VERY WORLDLY INTELLECTUAL. OVER TIME HIS AGNOSTICISM, HIS SCEPTICISM, AND HIS DISBELIEF IN THE BIBLE..... WELL SHE THOUGHT HE WAS SO BRILLIANT MINDED, HE HAD TO BE CORRECT. IN TIME SHE GAVE UP THE FIGHT WITH HIM ABOUT CHRISTIANITY.....SHE DECIDED TO JOIN HIS SIDE - SHE DROPPED BEING A CHRISTIAN.
I FEAR THIS IS IN PART [MAYBE THE LARGE PART] AS TO WHAT TARA HAS COME TO. IT MAY JUST BE EASIER TO FALL IN LINE WITH HER HUSBAND, WHO TENDS MOST OF THE TIME TO BE SKEPTICAL OF THE BIBLE, AND HENCE CHRISTIANITY. SOMETIMES PEOPLE GIVE UP THE FIGHT TO DISPROVE THEIR SKEPTICAL, AGNOSTIC, MATE, IS INCORRECT. AND EASIER TO JOIN HIS/HER TEAM, AND PUT AWAY THE BIBLE, TO STOP LOOKING FOR THE ANSWERS TO THE GAIN-SAYER OF THE BIBLE. SOMETIMES FOR SOME WITH UN-CONVERTED MATES, IT IS EASIER TO FOLLOW THEIR UNCONVERTED MATE'S VIEW OF THE BIBLE AS CONTRADICTORY AND FULL OF MISTAKES AND LIES.
OH YES TARA MAY THINK SHE IS USING HER INTELLECTUAL MIND, HER VANITY OF HER HIGH SCORES IN THE STUDIES OF UNIVERSITY SUBJECTS, AND SO DELUDED HERSELF SHE IS NOW APPLYING THAT INTELLECT TO FINDING THE BIBLE NOT ONLY NOT INSPIRED, BUT JUST THE IDEAS OF MEN WITH MANY CONTRADICTIONS, AND MADE UP STORIES, WITH LIES ABOUT JESUS.
JESUS GAVE PARABLES ABOUT SOME ONLY ENDURING FOR A WHILE AND WHEN LIFE GOT IN THE WAY, THEY WOULD FALL AWAY. WITH OTHERS IT WOULD BE THE PHYSICAL WEALTH AND RICHES OF THE WORLD, THAT WOULD TAKE THEM AWAY, AS IT DID WITH MY WIFE 17 YEARS AGO. STILL OTHERS WOULD BE TAKEN IN VARIOUS WAYS THAT SATAN CAN DEVISE TO STEAL AWAY THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS. AND THEN ALSO AS JESUS PROPHESIED IN THE LAST DAYS, DECEPTION WOULD BE SO GREAT THAT IF IT WAS POSSIBLE EVEN THE VERY ELECT WOULD BE DECEIVED.
ALL OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO TARA CHAPMAN HAS GIVEN ME THE INCENTIVE TO ADD TO MY WEBSITE SOME OF THE FOUNDATIONAL BASICS OF STARTING ON CHRISTIANITY..... THE PROOF GOD EXISTS, AND ANSWERING THE SO-CALLED CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE. IF GOD EXISTS AS HE DOES, THEN HE IS MORE THAN ABLE TO INSPIRE MEN TO WRITE HIS WORD TO US, AND PRESERVE IT.
GET YOUR FOUNDATION ON THE SOLID ROCK, AND BUILDING FROM THERE, YOU WILL STAY ON THE ROCK AND THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATHWAY TO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE WONDERFUL GLORIOUS KINGDOM OF GOD.
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