This information is what I wished someone would have tried to teach me when I first became aware that God was real back in 1979.
Life and God are extremely deep and complex topics. No human is going to come to know everything about them. However, the God that created the heavens and the earth, has given mankind instructions and wisdom in what we call the scriptures. God desires every person to study them out and try to get at least a basic understanding. The scriptures are sufficient regardless of whether a person considers themselves as bright or not so bright. If we follow what the scriptures actually say we will be overcomers in life and we will triumph in life’s battles of good vs evil.
No, I definitely would not have agreed with all of what is in this book, back then, as I had already previously developed my own set of personal truths. Like most people, my personal truths were made up of my own strong beliefs and assumptions gathered in my short life up to that point. My belief in them was so strong that I just assumed that they had to be true. Those personal truths were my creed, my self made religion. That is how so many religions start and it creates a universal problem people experience all over the world. I didn’t call it a religion at that time, but it was definitely my religion. Our natural inclination to consider everything we strongly believe or assume, as a truth, is a mindset we need to break. There is a definite difference between believing that something is true and coming to the point where we honestly know something is really true. An example many experience is; as a young child: we are told over and over that Santa Claus was real. I initially chose to believe it, yet I was never able to come to the point, even as a child, to where I could honestly say that I knew Santa Claus was real.
I eventually came to realize, that my so called personal truths had consequences different than I expected. These consequences were not the vibrant life that I assumed my personal truths would provide. This caused me to start seeking answers. I was not yet willing to admit out loud that any of my personal truths were false, but I knew something wasn’t right, so I started investigating different religions. But I found none of them to have the keys to life until I started studying the Bible. In the scriptures I saw real life, but it was so wrong compared to my natural way of thinking. How could something be real and yet so wrong compared to what I thought I knew was true?
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