The Message of the Bible
The Bible is God's word to us, and because of this it is both inerrant and infallible. It is the most read book in the world, and is translated into the most languages. It tells us a great deal of things, but at its core is a message of love summarised in the following paragraphs.
God created the world and all things for us (humankind), and is the world's loving ruler, and our loving Father. He has given us authority over the world under Him, in order that we could bring glory to Him by ruling it His way.
However, we openly rebel against God by trying to look after ourselves without contact with Him, we try to live our own lives, ignoring that we were made to be in a relationship with Him. In this way all people have rejected God. As we can see by looking at the suffering and poverty in the world around us, we fail dismally both in leading our own lives and in trying to rule the world our own way.
This situation will bring punishment, as living like this is not what God intended in creating us. The punishment that He is rightly entitled to impose for this rebellion is death.
However, God loves us and so He sent His Son in order that we could be forgiven and restored to Him so that we would not receive this punishment. This can happen because Jesus lived perfectly God's way and so didn't deserve punishment, but nevertheless He took the punishment for us by dying on the cross.
As a result we can be forgiven by God, take Jesus' position as our own, and become children of God - that is, all that Jesus merited in living perfectly under God's rule can be claimed by us, simply by putting our trust in Him. Because of this, Jesus is truly the only way to God.
On the third day after His death, Jesus was raised from the dead by God, and now rules in Heaven as King over all the earth. One day He will return as King to judge the inhabitants of the world and will find only two types of people:
Those who continually reject God will be condemned by God. Those who accept God will be forgiven by Him, restored in their relationship with Him, and receive eternal life with Him.
The question is then, which of these two groups will you be in?
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