Today's quotation is from the book Tramp for the Lord, by Corrie ten Boom
'Five reasons why I believe the Bible is inspired:
(1) It says so. "...holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Peter 1:21).
(2) The effect it has upon all who believe and follow it.
(3) Though some of it was written more than two thousand years before Jesus arrived on earth, yet all the writers agree.
(4) The authors do not offer any excuses for their own faults or sins.
(5) The writers record some of the most harrowing scenes which affected them greatly, yet they never express one word of emotion. The Holy Spirit wanted the facts recorded, and not their feelings about the facts.
Many persons make the mistake of thinking they can measure the certainty of their salvation by their feelings. It is the Word of God that is their foundation and therefore it is essential for the new convert in Christ to have a practical knowledge of the Bible. More than anyone else it is the new convert who will come under the fire of the enemy. He needs the knowledge of the Sword of the Spirit. As the Lord Jesus used this Sword to overcome the evil one in His temptation experiences, so we must learn to defend ourselves against every sort of attack.'
6 Comments:
reason 3 and 4 approach being good arguments. But the only real argument IMO would be that I personally recieved it at "mt. Sinai". I.E. a personal mt. Sinai.
Hey PD...care to expand your thoughts? How does one receive the Word of God at a personal Mt.
Sinai and have that alone prove it's veracity? I would imagine that many people from different religions have had their own Mt. Sinai experience...
By the way...not necessarily disagreeing...just playing devil's advocate for interest's sake! =) I'm just curious.
Personal Mt. Sinai. Like meeting Yeshua and making covenant with him in the form of a three-year-old's prayer, "come into my heart Lord Jesus"?
Hey Ken, good to have you commenting.
Because of the topic at hand, it's important to remember the historical Sinai experience of one man, Moses:
"And after forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush. And when Moses saw it, he began to marvel at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely , there came the voice of the Lord: 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob'. And Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look. But the Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them; come now, and I will send you to Egypt.'
This Moses whom they disowned, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush. This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'God shall raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.' This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you."
Miracles, loneliness, and the fear of Yah, eh PD? That was Moshe Rabbeinu's personal Mt. Sinai.
Miracles: "Performing wonders and signs in the land in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years."
Loneliness: "Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian."
The fear of Yah: "Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look."
here's another angle on what I think is our topic at hand. Abraham. He would have (and in a way he did)killed his "son, his only son, whom he loved," the son of the promise, Isaac. What would compel a man to do such a thing? God. So rather than asking (the instinctive question) what kind of God asks for that or why would he ask that? How did He ask it? What voice does a god use when making that sort of demand? What kind of raport would he require to make that request?
Is my direction becoming clear? God asks us all to do be an Abraham. Abraham is the father of faith. Abraham's faith is not so much to his credit as to God's glory. how did He pull it off? getting a guy to kill his own son?
capeesh
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