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Why conclude I say the Bible is unimportant?
Because you said before that not everyone had access to the Bible throughout history.
This appears to suggest that people today do not need the Bible because it was not available at one time in the past. This in my view appeared to be a negative view or comment against God’s Word. I say this because we are living in the last days where people do not regard the Bible as the sole source for our faith and practice in following Jesus and in changing lives.
You said:I certainly say it is needed, the Bible is needed in this world and believers were to have the revelation from God. But I did say, and still do, that it will not cost someone not having a Bible or having seen one their salvation. With repenting and coming to Christ for restoration to God they would be saved, God is not willing that any would perish. No passage in the Bible shows that any such would not be saved with not having scriptures they have access to. I can believe anyone anywhere in the world had opportunity for salvation being restored to God. The gospel is still to go out and to be spread, that opportunity for others is increased, and Bibles should be made more available.
Well, I think that if a believer is truly born again by the Holy Bible, they are going to have an experience with the Bible in such a way that they will be drawn to want to read it because they are changed and or born again spiritually by the Holy Spirit. If somebody has access to the Bible, and they simply refuse to receive the words of Jesus from the Holy Bible, that is a huge problem.
“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (John 12:48).
What words of Jesus can judge us on the last day if we refused to receive them?
Oh, things like Matthew 5:28-30, Matthew 6:15, Matthew 12:37, Matthew 25:31-46 (cf. Luke 10:25-37), Luke 9:62, etc.
You said:Other instructions are not an equivalent to the Bible.
What other instructions?
You said:But as commandments are in the Bible, they are instructions for us to not keep sinning.
Do you believe that Christians need to overcome serious sins mentioned in the New Testament that God attaches with warnings of hellfire and or condemnation?
You said:So you are speaking of KJV Only?
I believe God preserved His Word for us today. For divine inspiration is a waste of time if it was not divinely preserved throughout time. But yes, I believe the Cambridge Edition (circa. 1900) KJB edition is the perfect Word of God for today. God’s Word (the KJB) went through seven purifications as Psalms 12 talks about.
You said:I know others also say babies who are aborted are saved by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I know of such having an abortion say the baby being aborted is saved by Jesus. You see the logic can promote abortions. If they are saved, babies should be aborted that they will all be saved. The Bible is really important. Do you have any passage from it for any such positions? I only know passages showing that salvation is with repentance and faith, there is response to God needed.
So you believe in a God that sends aborted babies to hell?
“But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Luke 18:16).
While I believe that if Jesus did not go to the cross and was not risen, we would all perish. But I believe because God loves us so much, such a possibility would have never happened. For God so loved the world. I imagine if we truly knew the depths of God it would bring us all to crumble before Him. So the love of God compelled the Son to die for us and to raise three days later to save mankind. Yes, I believe babies have the stain of sin upon their bodies from Adam, but Jesus reversed the curse of the sin of Adam because of His resurrection. Seeing this is the case, to say that babies who do not have the capacity to know of any good or evil are to be punished is monstrous at best. But then again, we are living in the last days.
King David said of his dead son (who was a baby):
“But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” (2 Samuel 12:23).
Sin is not imputed where there is no Law (Romans 5:13). Babies are not aware of the Law and they really do not have the capacity to understand good and evil yet.
Bible Highlighter said:“…if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” (Isaiah 8:20).
You said:Again, what are you implying with this passage?
Well, actually Isaiah 8:20 is a verse and not a passage. While Isaiah 8:20 is a verse dealing with bad prophecies by false prophets in the OT times, I believe that this verse can also speak to us today, too.
I believe that a Christian should speak what God’s Word says and not their own beliefs that just pop up in their head that runs contrary to God’s Word. For example: If a believer claims to say that the Trinity is not true, I believe there is no light in them. Why? Because they are teaching extremely false doctrine.
“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2 John 1:10-11).
“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing,…” (1 Timothy 6:3-4).
James 4:6 says God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.
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