A truly unique book !

Thursday January 20, 2022

A truly unique book !

“I will instruct you and show you the way you should follow ; I will advise you, I will have my eyes on you.” Psalm 32. 8

We can look at the Bible as a very old book, filled with more or less fascinating stories and make it a reference for studying the ancient civilizations of the Near East. We can exploit it and turn it into a mine of information on the spirituality of a people, on Jewish religiosity and theology of yesterday, on the epic of the beginning of Christianity, in order to add all this to our knowledge. general or specialized. One can find, in this Bible, a history of the world and of men, without forgetting the notion of a single God, creator, who seems to have a program for a humanity which escapes Him as soon as possible, until a return to square one, with bruises in the soul and painful repentance. You can make a book of legends and fables out of it, and distract yourself from it or get rid of it. But for the believer, the Bible is quite another thing. It allows the construction, even the reconstruction of a life with effects that go beyond understanding, because it offers bases that are both new and eternal. Indeed, this book - which was written by forty authors over a space-time of 1500 years - finished nearly 20 centuries ago is also a book that touches, speaks, upsets, revolutionizes the person who reads it with eyes ready to discover the essential. How to explain that a sentence, in the middle of thousands of other sentences, can suddenly point to a precise situation – yours – and bring the answer that no one could give you, in the unique and intimate circumstances which are yours, and in a time that falls sharply ? Millennia of stories that will change yours! In fact, the Bible is the Word of God, and God uses this Word to precisely reach the life of His children, including you. If you want God to speak to you, don't neglect the Bible ; it is His word to you today !

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