Faithfulness A Faithful Copy
Thursday August 25, 2016
In today’s world it is getting more and more difficult to determine what is an original document or photograph. Photocopiers and other digital devices enable undetectable changes to be made to pictures and documents. It is easy to remove someone from a picture and insert someone or something else in that person’s place. Documents can be legally signed by a computer generated electronic signature. How then can we be sure that the Bible we use is the authentic inspired word of God and what does all this have to do with living in recovery today?
The scriptures have been precisely copied over the centuries to ensure their authenticity. If a scribe made a mistake in a parchment, the document was discarded. In 1946 a Bedouin Arab found some manuscripts which were later named the “Dead Sea Scrolls”. These documents are believed to have been written prior to 200 AD. When compared with the Bible, the scrolls prove the scriptures have been correctly copied throughout the centuries. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV)
While Jesus was here on earth, He told religious leaders who disapproved of Him and His teaching, to search the scriptures they so piously upheld for these scriptures foretold of Him. If they had faithfully done so, these Jewish leaders would have discovered that Jesus’ life and death were prophesied in the scriptures hundreds of years before His birth.
If we sincerely turn our will and our life over to the care of God, we will get to know His will as we daily read the Bible. It is a faithful copy of the words of God and contains reliable life principles. We may not understand everything that is written in the Bible, but, as we accept it as the authentic Word of God, it becomes life changing.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6 NIV)
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