Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Can the Bible Change a Person?

Many people have made a mess of their lives and they know it. They wish there were some way they could start again. Luckily, that wish can be a reality, thanks to the Word of God.
 The New Testament tells us the only way to change is from the inside out - through the One Who boldly proclaims, "Behold, I make all things new." (Rev.21:5) That claim is made by Jesus Christ. How marvelous, how wonderful He is at changing the human heart.

I found this article from D. James Kennedy's book 'What if the Bible had Never been Written'. I thought I would include it as it relates to 'Can the Bible Change a Person?' This article is written by a complete unbeliever who lived in the midst of intellectual atheists in England, he wrote....
"But I observed the futile amazement with which every skeptic from Celsus to Wells stood around the cradle of the Christ. I wondered why this helpless Babe was thrust into the world at a time when Roman greed, Jewish hate, and Greek subtlety would combine to crush Him. And yet this most powerful, devastating combination ever known in history served only to advance the cause of the infant who was born in a stable...
No unbeliever could tell me why His words are as charged with power today as they were nineteen hundred years ago. Nor could scoffers explain how those pierced hands pulled human monsters with gnarled souls out of a hell of iniquity and overnight transform them into steadfast, glorious heroes [of the cross]....no agnostic{An agnostic - is someone who believes that nothing can be know of the existence or nature of God} could make clear why seemingly immortal empires pass into oblivion, while the glory and power of the murdered Galilean are gathering beauty and momentum with every attack and every age.
Nor could any scoffer explain, as Jesus Himself so daringly foretold, why by telephone, airplane, radio, rail, horse, and foot, His words are piercing the densest forest, scaling the highest mountains, crossing the deepest seas and the widest deserts, making converts in every nation, kindred tongue, and people on earth.
No doubter could tell me how this isolated Jew could utter words at once so simple that a child can understand them and so deep that the greatest thinkers cannot plumb their shining depths. The life, the words, the character of this strange Man are the enigma of history. Any naturalistic explanation makes Him a more puzzling paradox, a fathomless mystery. But I learned that the paradox was plain and the mystery solved when I accepted Him for what He claimed to be - the Son of God, come from heaven, a Saviour of men, but above all, my own Saviour.
I learned to thrill at the angel's words: "Behold....unto you is born this day...a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Now I have learned the great truth that "though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, if He's not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn."
Wow....
And to answer the original question, "Yes, the Christ found in the Bible does change a person."






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