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God was right all along
Over the years I’ve noticed a pattern that repeats itself over and over
again. I’ve noticed the pattern in the Bible. I’ve seen it at work in
my life and in other people’s lives as well.
Here’s the pattern.
- God makes a statement to someone.
- That person experiences a situation that appears to
contradict
God’s statement.
- That person makes a choice to trust God or the seemingly
undeniable facts.
- If the person decides to trust God then (in the long run)
that
person learns the easy way.
- If the person decides to trust the ‘undeniable’ facts then
that
person learns the hard way.
- The end result is the same whatever path is chosen.
Eventually
the lesson will be that God knew what he was taking about all along.
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Noah
There are many examples in the Bible. Noah is just one example. Noah
was told to build the Ark; he may well have been working on it for
about seventy years.
Imagine how foolish Noah and his sons would have looked to the people
who watched him building it. Noah learnt the easy way and his
contemporaries learnt the hard way since the only people to survive
Noah’s flood were Noah, his wife and his three sons and their
wives.
Does the Bible contain contradictions?
I used to think that the Bible contained unresolvable contradictions;
one example would be the two seemingly contradictory accounts of the
death of Judas. I thought that there was no way that Judas could hang
himself and fall and be split open and have his intestines spill out
both at the same time. That was until I heard one very simple
explanation. Firstly neither account specifically says what caused his
death. If Judas
hung himself on a tree that was overhanging a cliff and the branch
broke then Judas could have fallen headfirst and gashed himself open on
the rocks of the cliff on the way down.
That was a simple explanation and I have since heard another more
complex one.
The Tektonics
web site shows how some other seeming contradictions can be explained.
The point is that I believed that there was no possible explanation
that could reconcile both accounts and I was wrong.
Can you trust God?
In my own life I've found that God can be trusted. I might have given
up my faith in Jesus but I had heard of miracles
and was aware of Bible prophecies that had been fulfilled, I had heard
about the evidence for Jesus and there is
no
one like Jesus. His teaching, his love, his willingness to give up his
own life to save others and his forgiveness is unlike that of anyone
else. If you have never read
the Bible books that talk about what Jesus said and did (Matthew,
Mark,
Luke
or John)
then I urge you to read one of those books at least once, you will be
amazed at how different Jesus is to any of your preconceptions. The
above links take you to the Bible Gateway website where you can read
them online and a good reader could easily read a Gospel in one night.
If you do read one of those books then while you do, why not ask God to
reveal himself to you?
I was wrong about the Bible contradicting itself, could you be wrong
about Jesus? How will you find out unless you read what the Bible says
about Jesus?
God wants to have a personal relationship with you, he wants to be real
in your life and he wants you to know that you can trust him, why not
give him the chance? If you want to find out about how people become
Christians see “How do I become a Christian?”
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