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-====== Arguments on the Bible ... ======
+====== The Bible in My Life ... ======
-Thursday, August 17, 2017.
+Thursday, August 17, 2017.  What is the role of the bible in my life, in my days? What are the options?
+What are the possibilities? The bible collects the story of Jesus and his disciples in the New Testament.
+And it collects the stories about God and his people - the people of Israel - in the Old Testament. The
+texts are written to be alive, to be texts for both daily use and for deep study. They are words of life!
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 ** For You Today ...**
+Today no one does not know the bible at all. We all know some things. But do we know Jesus? Do we
+realize that God in father, son and holy spirit wants to be there with us day by day? Do we realize that
+the bible wants to be a love letter, which conquers our heart and leads us into a life in dense
+community with the eternal god?
+The bible is made for me and for you today. It is made to listen, and to be inspired. It is made to
+make us free - when we follow Jesus as disciples. When we personally follow him. When his spirit comes
+into our heart and our mind.
+There has always been a lot of resistance, we hear about it for example in the New Testament book of acts,
+the story of the first apostles:
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 ** Truth and Power ...**
+The bible is a book full of truth. It is a book full of wisdom. There are many layers of this book - from
+its historical contents to the parables, it includes ethics and wisdom. All of it is important. Its goal,
+with all of its parts, is to bring us into a relationship with the Lord, to make us to disciples,  to
+parts of his community, to restore the relationship between mankind and God, on an individual basis,
+one by one, by faith and trust!
+The truth of the biblical books can be found and experienced on many levels. It can be found by digging into
+history. It can be found by research, by modern tools and archeaology. It can also be found on the conceptual
+level: its insight into what man and women are. Its descriptions of guilt and reconciliation. It is just
+the most realistic view into the history of mankind you can have.
+It can also experienced by the power of the holy spirit, when you come to faith and let God enter your
+life through the holy spirit. It is a spirit of power - not the physical power of cannons and the sword, but
+the power of love, peace and forgiveness, the power of a life which finds to the source of life! God wants
+to come into our hearts, and give us a personal freedom beyond our wildest dreams.
 (Roland Potthast)
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