Um ...how do you KNOW that Muslims serve a false god? They could just as well say - and probably do - that Christians serve a false God. How do we determine whose god is false and whose God is true? PLEASE don't say that the Bible tells us so. We really DO need another source to PROVE that one god is false and another God is not.
Come on KC, what you are espousing comes from man. Belief in God comes from faith. It is impossible to 'prove' something to someone who doesn't want to listen to another's point of view. Does everything need to be proven extra-biblically? Do you not know of the Bible's historically accurate writings? If the history in the Bible is true, then why can't people believe other parts without needing 'proof' outside it?
But, you're using the Bible as a primary source with which to PROVE itself! If you had no Bible, could you PROVE that the God of the Bible is the true God? What you are doing is 'proving' that the God of the Bible is the true God from the Bible itself. Can you not see that FAITH ALONE is what one must have to believe in the biblical God since, otherwise, the biblical God is unprovable ...? If you have faith that the Bible is the word of God then just say this. Otherwise you come across as being arrogant.
Once again, it is impossible to 'prove' beyond a doubt that God exists without using The Word - His Word. Similarly, it is also impossible to prove, outside of inventing a time-travelling device, the beginnings of the universe or life on Earth. Thus we may as well throw out all our evolution, abiogenesis and cosmogeny beliefs/faith as well because it can't be proven either. This argument holds about as much water as a rusty sieve.
But WHY is it essential that (a) one NEEDS to pick up the Bible to begin with, (b) one is REQUIRED to read the ancient contents from start to finish, (c) one is REQUIRED to believe the ancient contents from start to finish without ANY question of doubt in one's mind ...in order to be saved? In order for one to attain a belief devoid of any doubts whatever one would require MORE than a Vulcan 'mind-meld' from Mr. Spock.
It is not a requirement. It happens when one gives their heart to Jesus. They want to know more about this Diety who deigned to descend to this cesspool of a planet and die for people who really don't deserve it so that they can, if they believe in Jesus and Him crucified, have eternal life. That bit comes first. The reading and studying generally comes later (though probably not by much).
And, as I asked of you on another thread, saved from what?
But, I thought Jesus was the Savior? Didn't He come to save us from the wrath of His father, God?
No, He cam to save us from the rightful judgement of His 'Father', God. Without Jesus, we would be between a rock and a hard place because we would die without any hope. God's book tells us that sinning (transgressing the Law - ie The Ten Commandments written on hearts and minds) should by all rights lead to death. He and the other two members of the Godhead came up with the plan. They have this family relationship in Heaven even though none of the Godhead are created. Can you even begin to fathom what God the Father was going through when one third of the eternal Godhead was dying, in human form, on a cruel instrument of torure here on this Earht? I really don't think so. So before you start waffling on about how bad YHWH (Yahweh) is, maybe you should think about the sacrifice He decided on all those years ago. To think that people attribute human thoughts to God is amusing in the least and very, very sad at the worst.
