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Thursday, October 6, 2011

THE BIBLE: GOD'S DIVINE ROUTE 66

The Bible is designed to transform
the Christian into a crucified believer.
The Bible is God's go-to book for every life-question we have and every life-problem or life-situation we find ourselves going through. Written over a 2,000 year period by forty-four God-inspired writers, the Bible has one great theme embedded throughout the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments which comprise the living Word of God: Jesus Christ is King of kings, Lord of lords and God of gods.

Throughout the ages, men and women and boys and  girls have searched for answers and solutions to life's simple and complex problems by reading, studying and meditating on God's Word, the Bible. And they have found real answers, practical wisdom, genuine truth and divine help written within its 1,189 chapters, its 41,173 verses, and its 774,746 words.

THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT BOOK

In my booklets The People  Of The Resurrection, Part I and II, I share sixteen spiritual truths that third day believers must live by. Truth #9 is: We Are The People Of The Great Book, Not The People Of The Great Science Fiction. There have been many counterfeit, false and science-fiction versions. There are countless look-a-likes, sound-a-likes and seems-a-likes. But there is only one Book that contains both ultimate and intimate truth. There is only one book written by God to man. Christians are the people of this great Book.

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH

Read all about it! It's in the Book!
The Bible, which many good folk call "The Good Book," is actually The God Book because it is the one and only true God's written communication to the world. The Bible contains everything that the living God wants to tell us for now--everything about Himself, His creations, His plan for man, and His instructions and guidelines to follow if we desire genuine truth, eternal hope, lasting peace, unfailing love and divine help. According to an anonymous writer of yesteryear, B-I-B-L-E actually stands for:

Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth

WHAT SOME WELL-KNOW PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE BIBLE

Other books are for our information.
This Book is for our transformation.
  • George Washington. "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
  • Abraham Lincoln. "Take all this Book upon reason that you can, and balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man."
  • Thomas Jefferson. "I have always said, I always say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."
  • Daniel Webster. "The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrines, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God."
  • Sir Isaac Newton. "No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible."
  • Douglas McArthur. " Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed."
  • Patrick Henry. "There is a Book, the Bible, worth more than all others that were printed."

GOD'S HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN

God's divine GPS to help us get to Heaven
In mankind's spiritual and moral journey to find the one true God and eternal life, the only theological road or highway the living God has ever constructed for humans to safely and correctly travel down (or up) is the Bible. As mentioned previously, the Bible contains 66 God-inspired books. It is the living God's divinely paved and mandated Route 66--a Highway of Holiness that even the most simple and innocent can confidently and safely travel on:

A highway [the Bible] shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean [unbeliever] shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, shall never go astray...The redeemed shall walk there. --Isaiah 35:8-9, emphasis added

This Highway of Holiness was completed in A.D. 95, after the book of Revelation was written. According to the one true God, there will never be other "lanes" or pathways added to this Canon of divine Scripture. Because this heavenly Route 66 is God-constructed, it will never have to be shut down for repairs or to fill in any potholes. Because it is all-inclusive and contains everything that God wants us to know about spiritual, eternal and moral truths, nothing new or improved is ever to be added to this only highway to Heaven.

Got questions? Need answers? Need directions and a divine GPS? Take a little journey down God's Highway to Heaven, the Bible. This divine Route 66 is the heavenly road God has given you and me that will take us to where He is. It is a road that even fools can travel in their quest to discover ultimate truth and genuine eternal life without ever getting lost.