You must remain faithful to the things you have been
taught . . .You have been taught holy Scriptures from
childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive
the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:14-15
Can we believe that “all Scripture is inspired by God” ? Here is why I think we can.
It is remarkable in composition. Composed over sixteen centuries by forty authors. Begun by Moses in Arabia and finished by John on Patmos. Penned by kings in palaces, sheoherds in tents, and prisoners in prisons. Would it be possible for forty writers, writing in three different languages and several different countries, separated by as much as sixteen hundred years, to produce a book of singular theme unless behind them there was one mind and one designer?
It is remarkable in durability. It is the single most published book in history. Translated into at least twelve hundred languages. Bibles have been burned by government and banished from courtroom, but God’s Wold endures. The death knell has been sounded a hundred times, but God’s Word continues.
It is remarkable in prophecy. More than three hundred fulfilled prophecies about the life of Christ, were all written at least four hundred years before he was born. Imagine if something similar occurred today. If we found a book written in 1900 that prophesied two world wars, a depression, an atomic bomb, and the assassination of a president and and a civil rights leader, wouldn’t we trust it?
Max Lucado の 「God Is with You Every Day」より
とても久しぶりに開きました。
聖書が神の霊によって書かれていることの証です。
聖書の全体を通した調和は、神の霊がそれを人に書かせたとしか説明のしようがありません。
そうでないことを証明することの方がよっぽど難しいことだと思う。
子どもたちも大人たちもチャレンジいっぱいの季節がやってきます。
私も、英語を読む努力、続けよう。
苦手から逃げない背中をはなに見せよう。