I Choose the Bible

John 12:17 KJV

The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

With as many charlatans as there are in the religious and especially Christian world today it is imperative that there be real evidence of the truth of a thing. Speaking of something as unbelievable as raising a man to life who had been dead four days, that there would be a record to substantiate the event is more than a little important. Of course we do not have copies of that record today. Time, history and the events of the world have either hidden them or else destroyed them altogether. The record we have of the record is the Bible.

This should not dissuade us of the veracity of that record. We have less to prove the existence of completely accepted men and their life events. Men whose place in history is never questioned hang on threads of evidence. Alexander the Great, for instance. Another is Socrates whose life and work is not only unchallenged but foundational to the study of philosophy, never wrote a word. All that the teachers are taught that Socrates taught comes from the word of one of Socrates presumed students, Plato. One man, whose own work is left to us not in original form, but through copies if copies of his work, gives us everything we think we know about him. Yet his work is not questioned.

It comes down then, to an elitist system that chooses which pieces of evidence may be accepted as truthful and which pieces may not be accepted merely on the preferences of the age. At one time the majority of scholars in the Western world accepted the Bible record as true. Even if they were not devout Christians they still accepted the record as true. The tide has shifted. Today intellectualism denies the record of the Bible while embracing other much more spurious historical records.

• I choose the Bible
• I choose to believe that record which has proven itself through the centuries
• I choose to believe the Bible even if the rest of the world chooses to believe against it

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