Hercule Poirot the fictitious Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie said the following,' 'In all the world there is nothing so curious and interesting, and so beautiful as truth'' ,I would add to that by saying, there is nothing so important as truth. Yet it is that very thing we struggle with, consider how many people do struggle with it, yet we want people to be truthful, people have been sent to jail for telling lies. When a witness is called in court, he swears on the Bible to tell ,the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That book that he swears on ,is the is truth, and yet so few people accept it, the cults distort the truth, likewise Muhammad who reportedly wrote the Quran, is another great example of that. In doing so he has robbed his followers of a Saviour, and that is so serious. and so sad, for we all need a Saviour, that Saviour being Jesus. Many Christians want to pick and choose what they will believe, not accepting ,that God who is love, is also the righteous judge, so they reject much that is in the OT. William Barclay was a very popular writer ,well known for his daily study Bible , denied the deity of Christ. among other things. When we start changing the truth of Gods word, putting wrong meanings on it, refuse to accept the difficult bits, we are asking for trouble. We are called as Christians, to accept the Bible, as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth., as Luther said, ''I am bound by the scriptures'', ''Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen''
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