Bible Truth FAQs
IS THE BIBLE FOR YOU?
Many go about their daily affairs oblivious to the instruction, warnings, promises, and blessings available to them through study and application of God's message to man --the Bible. It is as if the directions were for only a certain few and to be ignored by the great majority.
God knew before creation that man would rebel and require reconciliation (Eph. 2-3). He sent his Son to redeem a lost world and to reconcile both Jew and Gentile in one body, which is the church (John 3:14-21, Eph. 2:13-18).
The epistles of the New Testament are for instruction to those who have already obeyed first principles and have been added to the church (Acts 2:47). But the Lord's command is to take his gospel message to every creature in the whole world (Matt. 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-16). The invitation is, "whosoever ..." This means that .eyerybody is subject. The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Pet. 3:9).
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