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Of course, there are many religions today and people | Of course, there are many religions today and people | ||
get to know some ideas from their social environment, | get to know some ideas from their social environment, | ||
- | Let us look at some possible answers ... | + | Let us look at some possible answers |
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The Koran claims to be the word of God. The same is true about the bible. It also claims to be the | The Koran claims to be the word of God. The same is true about the bible. It also claims to be the | ||
- | word of God. So both books claim to be God speaking. If you want an answer from either Christianity or form | + | word of God. So both books claim to be God speaking. If you want an answer from either Christianity or from |
Islam, you will hear: read the book! | Islam, you will hear: read the book! | ||
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and the Bible. For me, the situation is quite clear: I am convinced that the bible is God speaking. To | and the Bible. For me, the situation is quite clear: I am convinced that the bible is God speaking. To | ||
come to your own conclusion, you need to look at the books, and then judge yourself. How is God? Can this | come to your own conclusion, you need to look at the books, and then judge yourself. How is God? Can this | ||
- | be God talking? Read and then come to faith! | + | be God talking? Read and then come to faith in Jesus! (The easiest is to start |
+ | reading the gospels.) | ||
Let us look into the last book of the bible, the Revelation of John. It is written here: | Let us look into the last book of the bible, the Revelation of John. It is written here: | ||
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+ | ** The Spirit helps and talks ...** | ||
- | {{ 2019: | + | The bible teaches that the holy spirit is alife. The spirit of God is there, in the middle of the world. |
- | + | Indeed, you need the help of the spirit, to understand the bible. You need to open your heart and your | |
- | ** | + | mind to God. You need to accept the spirit of God into your life, to be able to understand more of it. |
+ | It is even said that the spirit of Jesus draws you to the bible. It draws you to him. | ||
+ | According to the bible God has been talking ever since. He talked to many people, and he is talking | ||
+ | in particular in and through the bible. It has been written by many different people. Some of these were | ||
+ | prophets, and God talked to them directly, as here in the book written by John, the evangelist. This | ||
+ | continues, since God is the living God, and the holy spirit is doing his work in this world. | ||
+ | When we want to hear God and his opinion on our life, we need to come to him, ask him to talk, search him | ||
+ | in the bible and further texts and speaches and films of Christians. The most pure source will be the | ||
+ | bible! It is a continuing miracle, how much it speaks day by day, with all its stories, its history, its | ||
+ | songs, its gospels, its letters and discussions and teaching. Ask God to give you ears, and he will! | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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