Faith, Religion, God and the Bible

The day is fast approaching that questions people have asked been asking for thousands of years will be answered. The answers are intended to bring peace, joy and liberty to all; but will they?

To me, one of the most alarming trends in religion today is an almost blind faith in a book; and not in God, who the book is about. The Bible is a mystery... it is full of irreconcilable and incomprehensible statements, acts, accounts and contradictions. To not see all of them acknowledge the truth of this isn't faith. Maybe God had a deeper reason for certain words or statements that are ridiculous being in there. Faith in God and faith in a book are worlds apart! The Bible didn't convince me to believe or trust in God, and neither did religion; God did!

What if some of the things that were sown into the Bible thousands of years ago either weren't true, or even malicious? Would that change your trust in God? If the answer is yes, that's truly sad. If you are a Christian I have a question for you. How many times did Jesus Christ say to place your faith and trust in a book of scriptures? He said trust in GOD and trust also in me.

The last people that I would want to see judging people on earth are those with a rigid and inflexible faith in a book, a book; not God! By the book you would have to condemn people God wants to save. What if God ultimately wants to save everyone? What if that's God will? Will you tell Him that He can't do it because the book says so? Are there glimpses of God in the book? Yes, are they all from God? Absolutely not, and the very book that so many want to take literally even says so! In Jeremiah 8,8 this is what the LORD said.

^{KJV 8,8}

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain madeďťż^aďťż he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. ^[1]

A - in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood

NOTE: The tense this verse was used in was past, present and future...

The Bible is a mystery! It's also the most scientific book ever written; but it's been used over and over again to curse, condemn and enslave people that God loves! People that God personally endured afflictions, persecutions, terror, curses, poverty and suffering beyond human comprehension to set free. Kind of like the song "The Impossible Dream". He marched into hell for a heavenly cause; and I tell you truly that He's marching out of hell with all of the prisoners! That's the God that I know! That is the God of Love...

Go look at the stars in the sky, the mysteries of science, the miracles in every form of life and ask yourself how smart is God? Is God not the greatest scientist of all? God is alive. There are reasons that the Bible has existed; mysteries, secrets and messages that were sent thousands of years in advance. There are verses in the Bible that needed to be fulfilled and messages people had to receive. Messages that are three thousand years old that are so concise, detailed and descriptive that only the ONE (the Most High One) could have sent them, the Author of Life itself.

NOTE: The message related here is not designed for any other purpose than to encourage true faith.. faith in God. It's not to argue theology or doctrines; I'll leave that to the experts in religion. In the Gospels didn't Jesus say something about worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

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