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Indeed, there is no other book on the planet which is as deeply rooted in human history. | Indeed, there is no other book on the planet which is as deeply rooted in human history. | ||
- | We have some antique literature, but they are very view books. The biblical books with the | + | We have some antique literature, but these are very view pieces and usually with copies |
+ | hundreds of years later. The biblical books with the | ||
books of Moses, the historical books, with the prophets and wisdom literature, go back | books of Moses, the historical books, with the prophets and wisdom literature, go back | ||
- | up to 1500 years before Christ. | + | up to 1500 years before Christ. |
+ | about 300 BC. The way people are portrayed is very lively. With all their strength and | ||
+ | weakness, with triumph as well as guilt and failures. | ||
+ | It is absolutely amazing to search back into the beginning of human writing, which | ||
+ | developed slowly between 3000 and 1500 BC. If we date the origin of the ten commandments | ||
+ | to about 1400-1300 BC, we realize that they came about the time when human writing achieved | ||
+ | a skill such that full sentences of complex structure could be written down. | ||
+ | But the biblical books are more than history! | ||
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- | ** ... ** | + | ** Words of Life ... ** |
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+ | The bible claims to be more than words. It is words of life. From the very beginning the | ||
+ | biblical books have been books of faith. They talk about the fathers of faith. They talk | ||
+ | about the struggle of faith. And they talk about God, who want to talk and wants to be | ||
+ | with humans. | ||
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+ | In the gospel of John, chapter 6, it is said about "the word": | ||
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+ | In the Old Testament God talks to humans, usually to prophets who then communicate to others. | ||
+ | With Jesus, this changes significantly. Here, God himself is there among humans, he talks | ||
+ | himself through the son, through Jesus. And with the holy spirit it is claimed that God | ||
+ | talks to all of them the same way: through the scriptures and the spirit to all | ||
+ | who believe in Jesus. | ||
+ | The bible is more than history, since its goal and purpose is to bring people into | ||
+ | a relationship to God. We are all asked to open our eyes, our ears and our heart and | ||
+ | start to live with the living creator, the beginning and the end. So there is a lot to | ||
+ | explore and to learn, when we start to explore the biblical books, from Genesis | ||
+ | to the Revelation. | ||
+ | Come and join us, with Christians all over the planet, to come to the Lord. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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