Proof of god

[CUSP82]

A Catholic priest is not going to eat you or condemn you or anything if you're gay, lesbian, or even a Martian. My 2 good friends who just happen to be priest and I talk about this often. In fact he Pope just made some nice comments about the matter and how the Church is changing it views on many social issue. What you refer to is years past, although there still are some but few priest that will send you to hell but they aren't God are they?

[mannakonda]

A Catholic priest is not going to eat you or condemn you or anything if you're gay, lesbian, or even a Martian. My 2 good friends who just happen to be priest and I talk about this often. In fact he Pope just made some nice comments about the matter and how the Church is changing it views on many social issue. What you refer to is years past, although there still are some but few priest that will send you to hell but they aren't God are they?

Personally I believe being gay/lesbian is against gods will:
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

The pope also obey/worship "holy" dead bodies. Even though the bible says you shall not have other gods than god..

Priest sending you to hell? There is no man who controls who goes to hell or not.

[CUSP82]

God's love is unconditional.
And no one worships dead bodies. Where did you get that one?

[mannakonda]

God's love is unconditional.
And no one worships dead bodies. Where did you get that one?

People who live a lifestyle against gods will will not be saved. But the ones who believe in god, jesus and the holy spirit, and put their faith first will be given eternal life in heaven.

Google it.

[Sequoia Tree]

Personally I believe being gay/lesbian is against gods will:
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Pretty sure the old testament also contains a bunch of ridiculous stuff that most of us don't adhere to today.

[CUSP82]

Okay so why don't Jews eat pork?

[CUSP82]

People who live a lifestyle against gods will will not be saved. But the ones who believe in god, jesus and the holy spirit, and put their faith first will be given eternal life in heaven.

Google it.

Can you tell me God's will? You won't find it on google.

[mannakonda]

Pretty sure the old testament also contains a bunch of ridiculous stuff that most of us don't adhere to today.

You are right, most of us dont adhere to it today, because more of us dont believe in god.

[Marlon LGHanger]

We live in a world that, for the most part, has no absolute standard for life and behavior. We areunder a system of morality by majority vote—in other words, whatever feels right sets the standard forbehavior.That philosophy, however, runs contrary to everything we know about our world. For example, inscience there are absolutes. Our entire universe is built on fixed laws. We can send satellites andother spacecraft into space and accurately predict their behavior. Science—whether biology, botany,physiology, astronomy, mathematics, or engineering—is controlled by unalterable and inviolable laws.Yet in the moral world many people want to live without laws or absolutes. They try to determine theirpoints of reference from their own minds. However, that is impossible. When we move from thephysical to the spiritual realm, fixed laws still exist. We cannot exist without laws in the moral andspiritual dimensions of life any more than we can do so in the physical dimension. Our Creator builtmorality into life. Just as there are physical laws, so there are spiritual laws. Let me give you anexample.People have asked me whether I believe that AIDS is the judgment of God. My response is that AIDSis the judgment of God in the same sense that cirrhosis of the liver is the judgment of God or thatemphysema is the judgment of God. If you drink alcohol, you're liable to get cirrhosis of the liver. Ifyou smoke, you're liable to get emphysema or heart disease. And if you choose to violate God'sstandards for morality, you're likely to contract venereal disease—even AIDS. It is a law that the Bibledescribes in terms of sowing and reaping.We can explain this principle in another illustration. Gravity is a fixed law. You may choose not tobelieve in gravity, but regardless of what you choose to believe, if you jump off a building you'll fall tothe ground. You don't have an option. It's not a question of what you believe; it's a question of law.The law will go into effect when you put it to the test. That is true in any other area of physical law.The same thing is true in the moral and spiritual dimension. To segment life into a physical dimensionin which fixed laws cannot be violated and a moral or spiritual dimension in which laws can beviolated is an impossible dichotomization. The same God who controls the physical world by fixedlaws controls the moral and spiritual world.Where, then, do you find the laws of morality? How do you determine what is right and what iswrong? Has our Creator revealed such standards to mankind in a way we can understand?The Bible claims to be the revelation of God to man. Although I have spent many years of my lifestudying the Bible, I wasn't always committed to it. That commitment developed after my freshmanyear in col lege, when I came to grips with my life and future and wanted to know the source of truth. Idiscovered several compelling reasons for believing that the Bible is God's Word. Five basic areas,which go from the lesser to the greater, help prove its authenticity.The Authenticity of the BibleExperienceFirst, the Bible is true because it gives us the experience it claims it will. For example, the Bible saysGod will forgive our sin (1 John 1:9). I believe that, and I can truly say that I have a sense of freedomfrom guilt. The Bible also says that "if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old thingspassed away; behold, new things have come" (2 Corinthians 5:17 ). That's what happened to mewhen I came to Jesus Christ. The Bible changes lives. Someone has said that a Bible that's fallingapart usually belongs to someone who isn't. That's true because the Bible can put lives together.Millions of people all over the world are living proof that that is true. Maybe you know one or two ofthem. They've experienced the Bible's power.That's an acceptable argument in one sense, but it's weak in another. If you base everything youbelieve on experience, you're going to run into trouble. Followers of Muhammad, Buddha, and HareKrishna can point to various experiences as the basis for their beliefs, but that doesn't necessarilymean that their beliefs are correct. So although experience can help validate the power and authorityof the Bible, we will need more evidence.ScienceThe Bible also presents a most plausible, objective understanding of the universe and the existenceof life. It presents a God who creates. That makes more sense than believing that everything cameout of nothing, which is essentially what the theory of evolution says. I have an easier time assumingthat someone produced everything. And the Bible tells me who that someone is: God.The study of creation helps explain how the earth's geology became the way it is. The Bible tells of asupernatural creation that took place in six days and of a catastrophic worldwide flood. These twoevents help explain many geological and other scientific questions, some of which we will soonexplore.You will find that the Bible is accurate when it intersects with modern scientific concepts. Forexample, Isaiah 40:26 says it is God who creates the universe. He holds the stars together by Hispower and not one of them is ever missing. In this way the Bible suggests the first law ofthermodynamics—that ultimately nothing is ever destroyed.We read in Ecclesiastes 1:10: "Is there anything of which one might say, 'See this, it is new'?" Theanswer immediately follows: "Already it has existed for ages which were before us." Ancient writers ofthe Bible, thousands of years before the laws of thermodynamics had been categorically stated, wereaffirming the conservation of mass and energy.The second law of thermodynamics states that although mass and energy are always conserved,they nevertheless are breaking down and going from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos, fromsystem to non-system. The Bible, contrary to the theory of evolution, affirms that. As matter breaksdown and energy dissipates, ultimately the world and universe as we know it will become dead. It willbe unable to reproduce itself. Romans 8 says that all creation groans because of its curse, which isdescribed at the beginning of the Bible (Genesis 3). That curse—and God's plan to reverse thecurse—is reflected throughout biblical teaching.The science of hydrology studies the cycle of water, which consists of three major phases:evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Clouds move over the land and drop water throughprecipitation. The rain runs into creeks, the creeks run into streams, the streams run into the sea, andthe evaporation process takes place all the way along the path. That same process is described inScripture. Ecclesiastes 1 and Isaiah 55 present the entire water cycle: "All the rivers flow into the sea,yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again" (Ecclesiastes 1:7)."For . . . the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering theearth" (Isaiah 55:10). Also, Job 36:27-28 speaks of evaporation and condensation—centuries prior toany scientific discovery of the process: "He [God] draws up the drops of water, they distill rain fromthe mist, which the clouds pour down, they drip upon man abundantly."In the 1500s, when Copernicus first presented the idea that the earth was in motion, people wereastounded. They previously believed that the earth was a flat disc and that if you went through thePillars of Hercules at the Rock of Gibraltar you'd fall off the edge. In the seventeenth century, men likeKepler and Galileo gave birth to modern astronomy. Prior to that, the universe was generally thoughtto contain only about one thousand stars, which was the number that had been counted.However, in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, the number of the stars of heaven is equated with thenumber of grains of sand on the seashore. God told Abraham, "I will greatly multiply your seed as thestars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore" ( 22:17 ). Jeremiah 33:22 says thatthe stars can't be counted. Again God is speaking: "As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and thesand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David." Today severalmillion stars have been cataloged, though hundreds of millions remain unlisted.The oldest book in the Bible, the Book of Job, pre-dates Christ by about two thousand years. Yet Job26:7 says, "He hangs the earth on nothing." In the sacred books of other religions you may read thatthe earth is on the backs of elephants that produce earthquakes when they shake. The cosmogony ofGreek mythology is at about the same level of sophistication. But the Bible is in a completely differentclass. It says, "He . . . hangs the earth on nothing" (emphasis added).Job also says that the earth is "turned like the clay to the seal" (38:14, KJV*). In those days, soft claywas used for writing and a seal was used for applying one's signature. One kind of seal was a hollowcylinder of hardened clay with a signature raised on it. A stick went through it so that it could be rolledlike a rolling pin. The writer could, therefore, roll his signature across the soft clay and in that way signhis name. In saying the earth is turned like the clay to the seal, Job may have implied that it rotateson its axis. The Hebrew word translated "earth" (hug) refers to a sphere.It's also interesting to note that the earth maintains a perfect balance. If you've ever seen a basketballthat's out of balance, you know that it rotates unevenly. You can imagine what would happen if theearth were like that. The earth is a perfect sphere, and it is perfectly balanced. The depths of the seahave to be balanced with the height of the mountains. The branch of science that studies that balanceis called isostasy. In Isaiah 40:12, centuries before science even conceived of this phenomenon,Isaiah said that God "has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavensby the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in abalance, and the hills in a pair of scales."English philosopher Herbert Spencer, who died in 1903, was famous for applying scientificdiscoveries to philosophy. He listed five knowable categories in the natural sciences: time, force,motion, space, and matter. However, Genesis 1:1, the first verse in the Bible, says, "In the beginning[time] God [force] created [motion] the heavens [space] and the earth [matter]." God laid it all out inthe very first verse of Scripture.The Bible truly is the revelation of God to mankind. He wants us to know about Him and the world Hecreated. Although the Bible does not contain scientific terminology, it is amazingly accurate wheneverit happens to refer to scientific truth. But someone might say, "Wait a minute. The Old Testamentsays that the sun once stood still, and if that happened, the sun didn't really stand still; the earthstopped revolving." Yes, but that statement is based on the perception of someone on earth. Whenyou got up this morning, you didn't look east and say, "What a lovely earth rotation!" From yourperspective, you saw a sunrise. And because you permit yourself to do that, you must permitScripture to do that as well.MiraclesA third evidence for the authenticity of the Bible is its miracles. We would expect to read of those in arevelation from God Himself, who by definition is supernatural. Miracles are a supernatural alterationof the natural world—a great way to get man's attention.The Bible includes supportive information to establish the credibility of the miracles it records. Forexample, Scripture says that after Jesus had risen from the dead more than five hundred people sawHim alive (1 Corinthians 15:6). That would be enough witnesses to convince any jury. The miraculousnature of the Bible demonstrates the involvement of God. But to believe the miracles, we must takethe Bible at its word. So to further validate its authenticity we must take another step and consider itsincredible ability to predict the future.ProphecyThere is no way to explain the Bible's ability to predict the future unless we see God as its Author. Forexample, the Old Testament contains more than three hundred references to the Messiah of Israelthat were preciselyfulfilled by JesusChrist (Christ isthe Greek translation of the Hebrew wordMessiah).Peter Stoner, a scientist in the area of mathematical probabilities, said in his book Science Speaksthat if we take just eight of the Old Testament prophecies Christ fulfilled, we find that the probability oftheir coming to pass is one in 1017. He illustrates that staggering amount this way:We take 1017 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas . They will cover all of the state twofeet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly. . . . Blindfold aman and tell him he must pick up one silver dollar. . . . What chance would he have of getting the rightone? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies andhaving them come true in any one man. ([ Chicago : Moody, 1963], 100-107)And Jesus fulfilled hundreds more than just eight prophecies!The Bible includes many other prophecies as well. For example, the Bible predicted that a mannamed Cyrus would be born, would rise to power in the Middle East, and would release the Jewishpeople from captivity (Isaiah 44:28—45:7). Approximately 150 years later, Cyrus the Great becameking of Persia and released the Jews. No man could have known that would happen; only God could. In Ezekiel 26 God says through the prophet that the Phoenician city of Tyre would be destroyed,specifying that a conqueror would come in and wipe out the city. He said that the city would bescraped clean and that the rubble left on the city's surface would be thrown into the ocean. Theprophecy ended by saying that men would dry their fishnets there and that the city would never berebuilt.Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon laid siege to Tyre three years after the prophecy was given. When hebroke down the gates, he found the city almost empty. The Phoenicians were navigators andcolonizers of the ancient world; they had taken their boats and sailed to an island a half mile offshore.They had reestablished their city on the island during the years of siege. Nebuchadnezzar destroyedthe city on the mainland, but since he didn't have a navy, he was unable to do anything about theisland city of Tyre . This left the prophecy partially unfulfilled.About 250 years later Alexander the Great came into the area of Tyre needing supplies for hiseastern campaign. He sent word to the residents of the island city, but they refused his request. Theybelieved they were safe from attack on the island. Alexander was so infuriated at their response thathe and his army picked up the rubble that was left from Nebuchadnezzar's devastation of themainland city and threw it into the sea. They used it to build a causeway, which allowed them tomarch to the island and destroy the city. That exactly fulfilled what Ezekiel had predicted hundreds ofyears previously.If you travel to the site of Tyre today, you'll see fishermen there drying their nets. The city was neverrebuilt. Peter Stoner said that the probability of all the details of that prophecy happening by chance isone in 75million.The Assyrian city of Nineveh is another example. It was one of the most formidable ancient cities,which reached its apex during the seventh century b.c. Yet the prophet Nahum predicted that it wouldsoon be wiped out. He said an overflowing river would crush the gates and that the city would bedestroyed (Nahum 1:8; 2:6).In those days when people walled in their cities, they tended to build gates down into the riversnearby. The water could flow through the bars of the gates and keep out intruders. In the case ofNineveh , a great storm came and flooded the river, carrying away a vital part of the city walls. Thatpermitted besieging Medes and Babylonians to enter the city and destroy it, just as the prophetpredicted.The Life of ChristAdditional evidence for the authenticity of the Bible is Christ Himself. As we have already seen, He••••••fulfilled many detailed prophecies and did many miracles. It is important to note that He also believedin the authority of the Bible. In Matthew 5:18 He says, "Until heaven and earth pass away, not thesmallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished."If you would like to read more about the life of Christ and other evidences for the Bible's reliability, tryEvidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell (Here's Life Publishers).The Power of the BibleThe Bible is an amazing book. It's amazing in that it stands up to many tests of authenticity. Butbeyond that, it's particularly amazing when looked at from a spiritual and moral perspective.The Bible claims to be alive and powerful. That's a tremendous statement. I have never read anyother living book. There are some books that change your thinking, but this is the only book that canchange your nature. This is the only book that can totally transform you from the inside out.There's a section in Psalm 19 that is Scripture's own testimony to itself. This is what it says:The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether. (vv. 7-9)Let's look at each aspect separately.The Bible Is "Perfect"First, "the law of the Lord" is a Hebrew term used to define Scripture. Psalm 19 specifies that it is"perfect"—a comprehensive treatment of truth that is able to transform the soul. The Hebrew wordtranslated "soul"(nepesh) refers to the total person. It meansthe real you—not your body but what isinside. So the truths in Scripture can totally transform a person.You may say, "I'm not interested in being transformed." Then you probably aren't interested in theBible. The Bible is for people who have some sense of desperation about where they are. It is forpeople who don't have the purpose in their lives they wish they had. They're not sure where they are,where they came from, or where they're going. There are things in their lives they wish they couldchange. They wish they weren't driven by passions they can't control; that they weren't victims ofcircumstance; that they didn't have so much pain in life; that their relationships were all they ought tobe; that they could think more clearly about things that matter in their lives. That's who this book is foreople who don't have all the answers and who want something better.The Bible says that the key to this transformation is the Lord Jesus Christ. God came into the world inthe form of Christ. He died on a cross to pay the penalty for your sins and mine, and rose again toconquer death. He now lives and comes into the lives of those who acknowledge Him as their Lordand Savior, transforming them into the people God means for them to be. If you're content with theway you are, you're not going to look to the Word of God for a way to change. But if you're aware ofyour guilt, if you want to get rid of your anxiety and the patterns of life that desperately need to bechanged, if you have some emptiness in your heart, if there's some longing that has never beensatisfied, and if there are some answers you just can't seem to find, then you're just the person whoneeds to look into the Word of God to determine if it can do what it says it can. It can transform youcompletely through the power of Christ, the One who died and rose again for you.The Bible Is "Sure"Second, Psalm 19 says that the Scripture is "sure"—absolute, trustworthy, reliable—"making wise thesimple." The Hebrew word translated "simple" comes from a root that speaks of an open door.Ancient Jewish people described a person with a simple mind as someone with a head like an opendoor: everything comes in; everything goes out. He doesn't know what to keep out and what to keepin. He's indiscriminate, totally naive, and unable to evaluate truth. He doesn't have any standards bywhich to make a judgment.The Bible says it is able to make such a person wise. Wisdom to the Jew was the skill of daily living.To the Greek it was sheer sophistry—an abstraction. So when the Hebrew text says it can make asimple person wise, it means it can take the uninitiated, naive, uninstructed, undiscerning person andmake him skilled in every aspect of daily living.The Bible touches every area of life, including relationships, marriage, the work ethic, and factors ofthe human mind and motivation. It tells you about attitudes, reactions, responses, how to treat people,how you're to be treated by people, how to cultivate virtue in your life—every aspect of living iscovered in the pages of the Bible.How does the Bible transform one's life? It does so when you read it and Commit your life to JesusChrist, the Teacher and the Author of Scripture. He comes to live in you and applies the truth of theWord to your life.The Bible Is "Right"Third, the Word of God—called "the precepts of the Lord—is right. In Hebrew, that means it sets out aright path or lays out a right track. And the result is joy to the heart.I look back at times in my own life when I didn't know what direction to go, what my future was, orwhat my career ought to be. Then I began to study God's Word and submit myself to His Spirit. ThenGod laid out the path for me. As I've walked in that path, I've experienced joy, happiness, andblessing. In fact, I find so much satisfaction in life that people sometimes believe something's wrongwith me. Even difficulty brings satisfaction, because it creates a way in which God can show Himselffaithful. Even unhappiness is a source of happiness. In John 16, Jesus compares the disciples'sorrow at His leaving to the pain of a woman having a baby. There's joy through any circumstance. Iknow you want a happy life. I know you want peace, joy, meaning, and purpose. I know you want thefullness of life that everybody seeks. The Bible says, "[Happy] are those who hear the word of Godand observe it" (Luke 11:28). Why? Because God blesses their faithfulness and obedience. You canhave a happy life without sin, without sex outside of marriage, without drugs, and without alcohol.God is not a cosmic killjoy. He made you. He knows how you operate best. And He knows whatmakes you happy. The happiness He gives doesn't stop when the party's over. It lasts because itcomes from deep within.The Bible Is "Pure"Fourth, the psalmist says the Word of God is pure, enlightening the eyes. The simplest Christianknows a lot of things that many scholarly people don't know. Because I know the Bible, some thingsare clear to me that aren't clear to others.The autobiography of English philosopher Bertrand Russell, written near the end of his life, impliesthat philosophy was something of a washout to him. That's shocking. He spent his life musing onreality, but was not able to define it. I don't believe I'm Russell's equal intellectually, but I do know theWord of God. Scripture enlightens the eyes, particularly concerning the dark things of life, such asdeath, disease, tragic events, and the devastation of the world. Scripture deals with the tough issuesof life.I can go to a Christian who is facing death and see joy in his heart. My grandmother died when shewas ninety-three years old. She was lying in bed, and the nurse told her it was time to get up. Mygrandmother said, "No, I'm not getting up today." When the nurse asked why, my grandmother said, "Ilove Jesus, and I'm going to heaven today, so don't bother me." Then she smiled and went to heaven.Do you have that kind of hope? When I was a boy I used to go to Christ Church in Philadelphia and read epitaphs written aboutAmericans who have had a great impact on our country. Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph:The body ofBenjamin Franklin, printer,(Like the cover of an old book,Its contents worn outAnd stript of its lettering and gilding)Lies here, food for worms!Yet the work itself shall not be lost,For it will, as he believed, appear once moreIn a newAnd more beautiful edition,Corrected and amendedBy its Author!Can you look death in the eye and say, "This is not the end; it is but the beginning for me"? What canyou say to someone who loses a child? What can you say to someone who loses a spouse to canceror heart disease? Are you roaming around in the confusion in which many people find themselves?Where do you go for the dark things to be made clear? I go to the Word of God, and I find claritythere.The Bible Is "Clean"Further, Psalm 19:1 says that the Word of God is "clean, enduring forever." The only things that lastforever are things untouched by the devastation of evil—another word for sin. The word of God isclean. It describes and uncovers sin, but it is untouched by evil. And even though it is an ancientdocument, every person in every situation in every society can find timeless truth in this book. Here'sa book that never needs another edition because it's never out of date or obsolete. It speaks to us aspointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in history. It's so pure that it lasts forever.When I was in college I studied philosophy. Almost every philosophy I studied was long dead. I alsostudied psychology. Almost every form of psychotherapy I read about is now obsolete or has beenreplaced by more progressive thinking.But there's one thing that never changes, and that is the eternal Word of God. It is always relevant. The Bible Is "True"Finally, and most pointedly, Psalm 19:9 says that the Word of God is true. Today it seems there's nolonger a premium on truth. But that was true even in Jesus' day. Pilate, when he sent Jesus to thecross, said, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). The context makes clear that he was being cynical.I remember meeting a young man on drugs who was living in an overturned refrigerator box by astream in the mountains of northern California . I was hiking through the area and asked if I couldintroduce myself. We talked a little while. It turned out he was a graduate of Boston University . Hesaid, "I've escaped." I asked, "Have you found the answers?" "No," he said, "but at least I've gottenmyself into a situation where I don't ask the questions." That's the despair of not knowing the truth.Scripture describes some people as "always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of thetruth" (2 Timothy 3:7). That's not referring to intellectual truth; it's referring to the truth of life, death,God, man, sin, right, wrong, heaven, hell, hope, joy, and peace. People can't find it on their own.What Is Truth?To look at things philosophically, we live in a time-space box we can't get out of. We cannot go into aphone booth and come out Superman—we cannot transcend the natural world. We are locked into atime-space continuum.And we bounce around in our little box trying to figure out God. We invent religions, but they're selfcontained.The only way we'll ever know what is beyond us is if what is on the outside comes in. Andthat's exactly what the Bible claims. It's a supernatural revelation from God, who has invaded our box.And He invaded it not only through the written word, but also in the Person of Jesus Christ.Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea lays out an existential view of life. Its main character, AntoineRoquentin, is horrified by his own existence. He tries to find meaning in life through sex,humanitarianism, and other avenues but is left with a nauseating feeling of meaninglessness, neverreally finding genuine answers.Where do you find truth that eluded Roquentin? I believe it is in the Word of God, the Bible. Considerits attributes.The Attributes of the BibleThe Bible Is Infallible and InerrantThe Bible, in its entirety, has no mistakes. It is flawless because God wrote it—and He is flawless. Itis not only infallible in total, but also inerrant in its parts. Proverbs 30:5-6 says, "Every word of God istested. . . . Do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar." Every wordof God is pure and true. The Bible is the only book that never makes a mistake—everything it says isthe truth.The Bible Is CompleteNothing needs to be added to the Bible. It is complete. Some today say the Bible is incomplete andsimply a product of its time—a comment on man's spiritual experience in history—and that we nowneed something else. Some believe that preachers who say, "The Lord told me this or that," areequally inspired, like Isaiah, Jeremiah, or any of the other prophets. That is essentially to say that theBible is not complete. However, the last book of the Bible, Revelation, warns, "If anyone adds to [thewords of this book], God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyonetakes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree oflife and from the holy city, which are written in this book" (22: 18-19).The Bible Is AuthoritativeSince the Bible is perfect and complete, it is the last Word—the final authority. Isaiah 1:2 says,"Listen, Oh heavens, and hear, Oh earth; for the Lord speaks." When God speaks, we should listen,because He is the final authority. The Bible demands obedience.John 8:30-31 reports that many of the people Jesus preached to came to believe in Him. Jesus saidto them, "If you continue in My word, then are you are truly disciples of Mine." In other words, Hedemanded a response to His word. It is authoritative. Galatians 3:10 says, "Cursed is everyone whodoes not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them." That's a tremendousclaim to absolute authority. In James 2:10 we read, "Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumblesin one point, he has become guilty of all." To violate the Bible at one point is to break God's entirelaw. That's because the Bible is authoritative in every part.The Bible Is SufficientThe Bible is sufficient for a number of essentials: Salvation . Jesus said, "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?"(Matthew 16:26). Salvation is the greatest reality in the universe—and the Bible reveals the source ofthat salvation. Acts 4:12 says regarding Jesus, "There is salvation in no one else; for there is no othername under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."Instruction . Second Timothy 3:16 says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness." The Bible can take those who don't knowGod and introduce them to Him. Then it will teach them, reprove them when they do wrong, pointthem to what is right, and show them how to walk in that right path.Hope . Romans 15:4 says "Whatever was written in earlier times [a reference to the Old Testament]was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptureswe might have hope." The Bible is a source of encouragement, giving us hope now and forever.Happiness . James 1:25 reveals the key to happiness: "One who looks intently at [Scripture], andabides by it . . . this man will be [happy] in what he does." Psalm 119, the longest psalm in the Bible,devotes all 176 verses to describing the Word of God. It begins, "How [happy] are those who walk inthe law of the Lord."How Will You Respond?Your response to the Bible determines the course of your life and your eternal destiny. FirstCorinthians 2:9 says, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God hasprepared for those who love him" (NIV). Man could never conceive of all that God has to offer on hisown!Every time we pick up the Bible, we pick up the truth. Jesus said, "If you continue in My word . . . youwill know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:31-32). What did He mean by that? Thinkof the person who is working diligently on a math problem. As soon as he finds the answer—he's free.Or consider the scientist in the lab pouring different solutions into test tubes. He stays with it until hesays, "Eureka, I found it!"—then he's free. Man will search and struggle and grapple and grope for thetruth until he finds it. Only then is he free. The Bible is our source of truth—about God, man, life,death, men, women, children, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, friends, and enemies. It shows ushow to live. The Bible is the source of everything you need to know about life on earth and the life tocome. You can trust the Bible. It is God's living Word.

[mannakonda]

Can you tell me God's will? You won't find it on google.

Gods will is to live with him in our hearts.

You could find the pope obeying dead people.
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