Bible Question: I had a question posed to me recently that I couldn't really answer. Why has the Bible not been added to in recent years. Who decided that that was the end of all word that is "God breathed?" |
Bible Answer: Hi, kandrews! There are many people who will ask for very specific answers as proof of Devine Pronouncement; all I can give you is the Scripture’s testament: In Genesis we see the pronouncement of the first prophecy concerning Jesus, the devil and the world to come: I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.’ (Genesis 3:15) This struggle (battle/war) is expanded upon in Revelation 12: Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, (Revelation 12:4-5) Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God’s commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus. (Revelation 12:17) I liken Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12 to the Head Lines on news stories; they talk about rebellion of Satan and his impotence in subverting God’s Plan and Authority, while simultaneously revealing his hold on spiritual beings and his determination to threaten Christ’s siblings. Throughout the Old Testament there are revelations being made through prophecies about God’s Salvation Plan which is personified in Jesus Christ: Deuteronomy 18:15; Isaiah 9:6; 52:13 - 53:12; John 1:1-5, 9-14. Jesus defined His role in our Salvation this way: Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. (John 14:6) No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man; as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be judged; but whoever does not believe is judged already, because that person does not believe in the Name of God’s only Son. And the judgement is this: though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness to the light because their deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up; but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God.’ (John 3:13-21) |