The only way Jesus is revealed to us is therough the Holy Scriptures. So someone please answer this. Preferably the person who asked us to believe Jesus, but put away our Bibles.
2007-05-11 06:07:51 · 12 answers · asked by LENZ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You may be able to see Jesus in creation, or see His love in His people, but you can not know Him, without knowing His scriptures.
2007-05-11 08:29:47 · update #1
How do you walk without your legs?
How do you see without your eyes?
How do you hear without your ears?
How do you breathe without your lungs?
Faith come to us through hearing and the hearing by the word of God. The word strengthens our faith and helps us discipline our lives... but separate from the Bible, I believe in Christ Jesus because of the multitudes of miracles He has done throughout my whole life. Without Him - I am - and have - nothing.
Why would I ever want to be free from His word? It is His love letter to me.
Peace.
2007-05-11 06:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by Depoetic 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The only way Jesus is revealed to us is through our hearts, it's our reading of the Holy Scriptures, once He has been revealed to us, that shows us who He is and who we are in Him. You can believe in Jesus without using the Holy Bible, but, it would be like believing in money without having a clue what you can do with it and can't do without it.
2007-05-11 06:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by Mac M 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
My dear friend. The Church prospered for almost 400 years without the Bible as the Word of God was preached by the successors of the apostles. Jesus established His Church before the Bible ant it is the Church that is the ultimate authority, not the Scriptures. After all. it is the Church that wrote the Bible and Canonized it. It would be reasonable to assume that it is the Church that is the ultimate authority as to the meaning of Scriptures and not each individual pretending to be their own theologian. This is how heresies propagate as we can see in the more than 30,000 Protestant denominations proclaiming "their" differing truth from Scriptures alone. The Church is the "bulwark and ground of the truth" and it is Sacred Tradition of that Church where the truth is revealed about Jesus and the Gospel.
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
2007-05-11 06:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you look at the things around you the trees, nature, and see all the beauty and order you will see God and Jesus. Jesus is an historical figure both in the Judeo-Christian world, and the islamic world. There are historical reports of him. Josephus a 1st century historian wrote of him. If you ask Jesus into you life you will know he is real. You can know Jesus without the bible, but you can't grow in your faith without the bible, nor follow in his footsteps.
2007-05-11 06:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by eviej 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If my faith was only in a book or doctrine that I had assimilated
intellectually and nothing more I would drop it in a heartbeat if the proof came.
Reality is that I have met God personally through Jesus Christ in a way so totally transforming that to deny it would be the height of ignorance! Beyond just meeting God I have walked
with Him for over 33 years, and He has done incredibly great things in and through my life (based on the Bible and what it promises) so that to deny Him would make me a fool!
The first thing that conforms to scripture that He did was to deliver me from spiritual ignorance through an incredible transformation that transcends human logic and rationale.
In one moment of time I was totally delivered from alcohol and drugs with no withdrawals, and I was a drunken speed freak. He also delivered me from 17 years of cigarette use sometimes up to four packs a day in that same moment and with no withdrawals. I was a cursing fool using the name of God and Christ daily, and that left me immediately and has never returned. I had an extreme lust for women, and that is no longer part of my life, and has not been since salvation.
Consider what it takes some people to overcome just one addiction, lust, and cursing and you will begin to understand the miracle of salvation that came to me. I also at one time attempted suicide because I believed that I had nothing left
to live for. I am so very glad that I did not succeed.
Since then, I have gone on to graduate Bible college, met and
married a wonderful Christian woman, successfully raised seven children who know and love the Lord, put ten years of my life into drug and alcohol rehabilitation ministry, have done
street evangelism, street preaching, directed a ministry, did coffee house ministry, ministered in prisons, ministered in churches, and more. I am also in the process of publishing my first book and have a second on on the back burner.
I have seen many miracles in my life and the lives of others first hand including healings, casting out demons, restructured
families that were torn apart, restored lives from addictive habits, powerful anointing in preaching and counseling and other ministries, and much more.
Why would I ever want to go back to the paltry life I came from and allow the ideologies and religions of the world to rob me of my greatest joy - which is serving and honoring Christ? The world and religion without life has nothing to offer me. I am strong "in the Lord" and in the "power of His
might." I am Heaven bound and gloriously happy. I live to
glorify Him and share this wonderful experience with others
so that they might also live and glorify Him.
2007-05-11 06:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Luke 24:25-27
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. Then I said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the Book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart." Psalm 40:6-8
2007-05-11 06:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Did Jesus write the Bible? Was it an autobiography? Since that answers are no and no and the Bible is mostly hersay from other people, so no. I don't need the Bible to believe in my Savior.
2007-05-11 06:12:00 · answer #7 · answered by atlantaboi3 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
If you read the bible carefully, you will not believe in jesus, that is why he wants people to put them away..
2007-05-11 06:13:47 · answer #8 · answered by XX 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How can you believe at all after having read it.
2007-05-11 06:18:57 · answer #9 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
when he comes thru spirit in the heart then the person is born again....pray for the spirit
2007-05-11 06:11:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋