Why is the Bible so Important?

The Bible is the most important book in existence. It is one of the ways God communicates with us and is the only place we can truly find what God expects of us and how he wants us to live our lives to please Him. It is a book of the past as well the future and what we should expect to happen to this world and all those who live here.

Man has been rebellious from the beginning and is still the same. All have sinned and have come short of what God expects of him.

I was reading in Romans this morning and read what I have many times in the past but never realized the full impact of these words. There are some of you that would call me a hate monger and somehow responsible for the conditions listed but my feelings and opinions are of sorrow of what this really means and how it effects millions of people who think they are OK. I assure you that it isn’t true and God will finally give up on people and destroy what He has created and just have the ones that excepted Him as their God and be with them and they will live together for ever. Here is what I read this morning. It is written here from the Paraphrased Living Bible so even a child can understand it.

Romans chapter 1 starting with verse 16:

16. For I am not ashamed of the good news about Christ. It is God’s powerful method of bringing all who believe it to Heaven. This message was preached first to the Jews alone, but everyone is invited to come to God in this same way. 17. This Good News tells us that God makes us ready for Heaven — makes us right in God’s sight — when we put our faith and trust in Christ to save us. This is accomplished from start to finish through faith. As the scripture says it, ”The man who finds life will find it through trusting God.”

18. But God shows His anger from Heaven against all sinful, evil men who push away the truth from them. 19. For the truth about God is known to them instinctively; God has put this knowledge in their hearts. 20. Since earliest times men have seen the Earth and sky and all God made, and have known of His existence and great eternal power. So they will have no excuse when they stand before God at judgement day}.

21. Yes, they knew about Him all right, but they wouldn’t admit it or worship Him or even thank Him for all His daily care. And after awhile they began to think up silly ideas of what God was like and what He wanted them to do. The result was that their foolish minds became dark and confused. 22. Claiming themselves to be wise without God, they became utter fools instead. 23. And then, instead of worshiping the glorious, ever living God, they took wood and stone and made idols for themselves, carving them to look like mere birds and animals and snakes and puny men. 24. So God let them go ahead into every sort of sex sin, and do whatever they wanted to — yes, vile and sinful things with each other’s bodies. 25. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they prayed to the things God made, but wouldn’t obey the blessed God who made these things.

26. So that is why God let go of them and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God’s natural plan for them and indulged in sex sin with each other. 27. And the men, instead of having a normal sex relationship with women, burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things with other men and, as a result, getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly deserved. 28. So it was when they gave God up and would not even acknowledge him, God gave them up to doing everything their evil minds could think of. 29. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness and sin, of greed and hate, envy, murder, fighting, lying, bitterness, and gossip. 30. They were backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud braggarts, always thinking of new ways of sinning and continually being disobedient to their parents. 31. They tried to misunderstand, broke their promises, and were heartless — without pity. 32. They were fully aware of God’s death penalty for these crimes, yet they went right ahead and did them anyway, and encouraged others to do them, too.