Most people I meet on a daily basis I talk to about the God of the Bible. It is astonishing how many don’t know God, yet profess to believe in Him, and proclaim loudly of their own, “personal” salvation experience.
Fact is that few religious, “Christian” people know much of anything about the word of the Lord. But, what amazes me all the time, are the people I meet who don’t believe the Bible is inspired at all. Don’t believe the Bible is true and valuable. What is astounding is that of the overwhelming majority who take an “atheistic”, or “agnostic” stance on the subject of faith, and the Bible, most are totally or nearly totally ignorant concerning the Bible, what is actually says, and proofs of its authenticity, and accuracy that are found within its pages. Proofs also external to the Bible are never examined by these hard core “anti religious” people. How can a reasonable person say they don’t believe in something of which they have never studied? The answer is simple, they have been taught not to believe it.
That is why I would give them a little sympathy on one point, because they have been raised to say no to faith, and to believe that Bible teaching is just myth and foolishness and to be disregarded, replaced of course by factual science. And before you make the argument that, “Well, the same is true about religious people, they were all raised to believe the Bible is true and science must have second place to faith”. know this, I was raised to believe the latter that the Bible is the one book man should destroy.
There are many reasons that I don’t think that way any more. I’d like to share just a few with you here…