The Christian's faith has the Bible as its source. We quote Romans 10:17 to support this claim - "Faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ." The Bible is a book of books, 66 to be exact - 39 in the Old testament (covenant, agreement) and 27 in the New testament. Approximately 40 authors over 1,000 years had a hand in its inception. 2 Peter 1:21 claims that "men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."
Is the Bible a perfect book? I'd like to think it is, especially if we are going to say that it came from God. However, perhaps we can at least agree that it is "inerrant in all that it asserts." One thing is for sure - the Bible is a human book. It reports sin and holiness, joy and sorrow, life and death. It doesn't present perfect examples for us to follow. The men and women on its pages are frail, sinful people like us. But this fact in no way detracts from the fact that it also presents to us a holy God whose plan includes us.
Now I know that if an unbeliever is reading these words he is saying, "You have jumped too far ahead. You are assuming way too much agreement." Fair enough. Let's at least agree, so far, that
- all people have some sort of faith in something
- the Christian's faith is in God as revealed in the Bible
- the Bible is at least a human book about God (or, to be fair, about man's attempt to find God)
I think anyone would be hard pressed to disagree with these points. Le tme think for a while and we will continue these thoughts.
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