For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
Have you heard people talk over the years of the Bible being out-dated and not reliable any more? Have we moved on? Are all the teachings in the Bible not applicable to our lives now? We're different now, smarter, right?
Look again
There are some points when reading the Bible when it can just go over my head. At other points I can be like; "Say what?! What does that even mean?" The everyday lives of the men, woman and children of that time was so different. Their work, clothing, food, culture and manners. The way they spoke was different and their thinking. But, not all their thinking was different. Maybe there are some things that can never change.
The human heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9
What if we're looking at the wrong things? We may be focusing too much on the culture and the way the people spoke and did things. Those always change. But the human heart never changes! The human heart has sin which means it has always had the same motives, lust and hunger for what it wants. The hope is that since Jesus came down he saved us from our own damnation.
Which brings us to this question; does the Bible still apply to us today? Yes, of course! The Bible is God's letter from Him to us. The words are alive!! In John 1:1, John says that Jesus is the Word. God inspired so many people to write down what he did in so many lives, His prophecies about his Son's birth, life and death. There are even things about the future, of the end of the world! So literally, this amazing book has the beginning, middle and end of the whole story of the world. Man may always change in the way we do things, but God never does.
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