Throughout the course of history, a series of cycles retrieve, add to and reinvent old theories about the Bible. Gnostics build upon the teachings of Simon Magus in Acts 8:9-19 with modern theories like the Jesus Seminars and Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, books like the Secret take biblical principles out of their proper context by blending these truths with metaphysics and self-help methodology. Despite what so called experts may claim, the Bible continues to be an annual best selling book about the creation of earth, the fall of man and restoration of life through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. If you read and study this book you will soon discover, if God used logic, we’d all be dead!
If you were God, how would you respond when your only rule, Genesis 2:16-17, is quickly broken by your second created being, the first child born on this planet becomes a murderer, Genesis 4, and a few generations later, the only person worth saving is Noah. Meanwhile, the flood is immediately forgotten by the people of Babel in Genesis 11, your only leader, Abraham, is a habitual liar, Genesis 20:1-2, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were given over to shameful lusts, Romans 1:26-27. Like a frustrated parent whose children never listen to them, if God used logic, the earth would have been destroyed once and for all in Genesis 19:29.
Fortunately, for all of mankind, God is love, 1 Corinthians 13. Logically, God should have given up on us years ago, but He loved us so much that God gave us His one and only son, John 3:16-17. Despite the wages of sin, Jesus paved a new way toward heaven in Romans 6:23. Jesus left a final reminder of God’s love with his best friend on earth, John. According to 1 John 3:16-20′ true love today is found today by living out the love of Jesus. Like the classic country song by Crossway, “Thank God I’m not Jesus!” Come alive by following the apostle Paul advice in Galatians 2:20.
by Jay Mankus
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