Subject: Where does Jesus say He is God? |
Bible Note: Hi Nancy, I must admit you are a very truthful person and I appreciate what you said, there aren't too many that would get on a Bible forum and speak as openly and truthfully as you have, you have more guts then I have. This force or loving power that you speak of that is supposed to be in all of us, If this force is so loving and caring doesn't it seem logical that he she or it would give us some kind of a format to go by instead of leaving everything all to chance? I think you know where I am going with this. There are some who would say that, the Bible was written by men, well who do they expect to write it, a duck or a fish. I use to think the same way that you do until I checked out the facts about the Bible. It isn't one book but actually 66 books that were written over a period of 1500 years by many different authors. I don't know if you are much into gambling, but I am sure you know what odds are. Well I love to play the stock market and I have found out that in order to be successful in the market one must put as many odds as possible in their favor, the long shots just don't pay off; the Bible is much the same when it comes to probability. Instead of checking a stock performance sheet, which is what one must do to check for probability of future performance, in the Bible one must check on the accuracy of predictions that are made and if they came to pass as predicted; this is called the answer to prophesy. The Bible contains 1,817 individual predictions concerning 737 separate subjects found 8352 verses. These predictions are by many different authors. That in it's self is amazing that they could all be in agreement; the reason being is because God inspired each one of them to write down his thoughts for mans benefit. Let me site you an example, over two thousand years before and up to four hundred year before the person of Jesus was born, there were hundreds of prediction made by different people in the Bible as to the berth of this man called Jesus: such thing as where, when, how why and so forth. The probability of all these predictions coming true in one person, as the actually did, was figured out by someone who likes figures and the odds were over 33 trillion to one. Now those aren't very good odds but that is just one example of the accuracy of the Bible. The Bible talks about the resurrection of the person of Jesus i.e. he came back from the dead, and this one fellow who didn't believe a word of it set out to prove it a myth and decided to write a book on his findings. After examining all the information that has been recorded both in the Bible and historical records that actually exist, he changed his mind half way through his book and became a staunch believer in the claims that the Bible makes about the person of Christ. So Nancy if these claims are true, why don't you give God a chance to prove it to you by reading the New Testament and ask God if this Jesus is alive, as the Bible claims, to reveal himself to you. If you are sincere and really want to know the truth, this one called Jesus who died and came back to life will communicate with you from the Bible. I found this out for myself and I ask you to take the challenge. God does love you and he wants to reveal himself to you but he say that he can only do it as you read his Word. Don't try to start in Genesis, start with the New Testament, CDBJ |