If you Truly Love God. I love him enough to believe his teachings and follow his commands.

Submitted by Deborah (United States), Oct 14, 2009 at 19:50

I follow and believe the Old Testament and the New Testament. The bible is God's word. I know you don't believe in the New Testament, so I don't know what we have to discuss. I know there have been 100 prophecies that Jesus predicted that have come true, from his death and resurrection to the present day time of wars and rumors of wars, deception, earthquakes, false prophets, and many falling away from the faith.

Did you ever read the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea scrolls proved how carefully the Old Testament had been copied through the centuries about AD900- nearly a millenium after the time of Jesus-groups of Jewish scribes known as Masoretes began to copy the Old Testament texts according to strict guide lines.

When the Dead Sea scrolls were unearthed in the mid-twentieth century, scholars compared the text of Isaiah from the Dead Sea Scrolls with the text of Isaiah preserved by the Masoretes. What these scholars discovered was that -even though more than 1,000 years separated the Dead Sea Scrolls from Masoretic texts-the Dead Sea Scrolls and Masoretic texts agreed word for word more than 95% of the time.

Historians agree that Jesus existed. Robert Miller a skeptical historian, writes, " We can be certain that Jesus really existed (despite a few hyper-historical skeptics who refused to be convinced. Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce stated- "The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic (certain, unchallenged fact) for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

Luke says that the Gospel was based on information handed down from "eyewitnesses and on his own investigation (Luke 1:1-4. Likewise the Gospel of John claims to be written by the very disciple whom Jesus loved." Biblical authors understood the difference between history and myth, between fact and legend; they insisted that what they taught was literal historical fact.

Historical reliability of the New Testament may be helpful. Modern science does not really prove or disprove miracles, however history, archeology, and other social sciences have shown the New Testament to be historically accurate and reliable.

The New Testament writings were based on eyewitness testimony, There are many documents from writers as early as the late first century AD which confirm various details of the New Testament accounts, The existence of many early manuscripts allows us to be confident that the New Testament was accurately copied. I have all kinds of historical facts and proof of existence, but the main reason I have is faith, hope, and being part of this kingdom when this age is finished. Those that don't know it or believe in it are going to find themselves in for a rude awakening.

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