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From yesterday’s “Who is Jesus“, to today’s What is the Bible?

The Bible, for me, is not only a progressive view of man’s ideas about God and spiritual things, it is a book that is working out a progressive transformation in me. I am not who I was at 22, nor 42, not even at 62. For you see, I turned 62 ten months ago. Once you get close to that black hole, called the Holy Spirit, you get sucked in faster and faster. Ten months in the “spirit lane” is something akin to Psalms 42:7.

It’s much easier to look at God from afar!

It causes one a lot less stress to just stick with “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so”. While that’s true, there are some other things that He wants you to know as well. Worse yet, there are things He wants you to DO! It’s not just a LOVE-in folks. It’s a BE-in which leads to a DO-in!

The Bible is not a rule book, which is where I began, what I was told. I moved from the Bible being a nice little book with children stories, to it being a rule book about what I should and should not do. Can you say legalism? Can you say “I can’t win“, because no one can fulfill the law but Jesus. The Bible is so much more because it is truly a sacrament. But it’s not treated as such by most Christians today. Far too many see the Bible as a book from which you can memorize a few Scriptures and then quote them every time you get a chance.

Neither is it your arguing points to keep you where you are living!

It’s not a way of proving you are right and others are wrong.

Simply put, the Bible is a treasure of sacred Scriptures put together by our ancestors and it is their record, their recollection of the events of their time, as they saw it. We now have to interpret (using the Holy Spirit as our filter) the Bible through the knowledge that we possess today compared to what they thought was true then. Click here as just one example.

Ultimately, the Bible is what you have made it, what you are allowing it to be in your life. Are you using it to defend what you believe, or are you allowing it to transform you? It is an inspired work in it’s salvistic transformational mission.

How’s the Bible changed you recently: made you more lovable?”