Actually, people claiming to be the guardians of that truth, "the truth" have been telling us it is all sorts of things almost from the time of the first believers, who were simply called "believers" or "followers of The Way" . Without going into too much history lesson, they did not have a bible as we know it today, most had only the old testament - and the non-jewish not even that, and over a period of time many accumulated various teaching notes and letters from the apostles and other reputable teachers of "The Way"

That whether the Bible is the infallible word of God, that is the question that determines all a person's world view, for if it is not, then judeo-christian heritage is nothing more than the collected writings of many long dead people, with perhaps some good wisdom and direction for living, but also a work of division and destruction to those who mistakenly place their very lives in the balance upon it's contents. When I meet those who consider much of the Bible to be "allegory", or "fable", I fear as I wonder who can be the God they serve, what can be their definition of Jesus. Jesus claimed to have come from the Father, God in Heaven, he claimed to be in fact "The Word", COME TO MAN, FROM the Father. The LIVING WORD, by whom all things were created. He also taught from the Hebrew scriptures which we now call the "old testament", taught and quoted it as literal truth. He quoted the Patriachs of the old Testament as real forebears, and their lives and events as real history.

If he was God, he knew whether things things were true or fables, and confirmed them as real history, - the world brought into being by the Genesis account of creation, the great flood, the plagues of the egyptians and the exodus from Egypt. The parting of the Red Sea. The manna supplied in the desert, the taking of 'Canaan' - the promised land. Jonah's trip in the first 'submarine'. The virgin conception and birth, his ressurection from the dead. etc. If he was God incarnate, we must take these things literally as real events. Only if he was not God can we allow these things to be interpreted as fable, and if he was not God, then he was either deluded or an evil trickster, a Jewish political figure with his own interpretation of religeous agenda. If that be the case, then why would one give credence to his words and spend one's life following Him? Either he was and is God and the Whole Bible is both true and literal, or; he was a mere man and the Bible a mere fable, in which case we should disregard it's very creed and credence as irrelevent, or at best no better than any other religion or human philosophy. You decide which it shall be, but as for me -:

well I believe it is the Holy, inspired, infallible word of God, Creator of all the universe. Why do I believe this ? The answer lies in several parts, firstly - 25 years study that convince me it is unique in conception, content, consistency, (sorry about the alliteration) and historical comment. Secondly, in the support it receives as affirmation, evidence from genealogy, archaeology, paleontology, geography, chemistry, physics and biology. Third, and the nail in the coffin for me, is, that having believed that there was a God, the God described in the Bible, He has made Himself known to me as a gentle loving father, the kind we all wish we had on this earth. He has shown Himself real and true to me; and desire as I might in my lowest hour, I cannot, and will not deny that He is the Lord, maker of heavens and earth, the "I AM". God as described in the Bible, the holy, infallible Word Of God.

Where does this lead us? It can lead us to only one place. -
To a decision whether we will first believe in the Bible as infallible truth, and if we believe this,
to the second question, what will we do about it?

I believe the answer to the first question must be YES, the evidence screams at us that The Bible is true from one end to the other, increasing amounts of - archaelogical evidence, historical records, and increasingly, new scientific discoveries, ALL support the words of the scriptures.

If this is the answer to the first question, then our answer to the second can only be, to desire to know our Maker and our Redeemer, for certainly our Creator knows best how to order and plan our lives. Who but He can make sense out of the chaos of this messed up world and our messed up lives? Who but our Redeemer, can repair the wounds and errors of our past and turn ashes into beauty?

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