(Ver 1.2) This Bible lesson may be a brand new perspective for you and it just may be something that you may have never considered to think on.  Have you ever studied the many different writing styles of books?  College text books are written radically differently than fictional literature.  Technical writings and software documentation are written consderibly different than a President’s biography.  Realizing that there are so many different writing styles, let me ask you what literature style is the Bible written in?  I believe that is an interesting and very important question to consider.  From my research and study I’ve discovered that the Bible is significantly different than anything else that I’ve ever read.  I believe that this makes it difficult to label it as just one writing style and say that it is only that one.  For example Psalms many times resembles a poetry writing style but it certainly cannot be labeled that alone because it contains so much more than that alone.

It is almost easier to determine what the Bible is not rather than to try to assign it a specific style.  For example, the Bible was certainly not written in a text book style using technical documentation methods.  However, the Bible does contain great technical information about creation.  Why didn’t God write these creation facts, events, descriptions and dates using more revealing, plain and indisputable evidence?  Do you think that God is not capable of describing all of the little creation design  intricate details of DNA, Sound Waves, Laws of Physics, etc. using the scientific terms involved and the background proof data behind every part of His creation?  Can God not compete intellectually with the modern PHD professors in our colleges and universities?   Are the scientific discoveries and the theories of men superior to God?  Do believe that God not able to dispel the theory of human evolution using His knowledge of creation?

I personally believe that God’s intelligence is so far beyond the Einstein’s in our world that He could solve the debate with only a few lines of specific information.  But, if He did that, what would be the end result of that type of information?  It would be like the classic movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, when the man from another world went to the professor’s house and solved a very complex technical equation on the chalk board, that the professor had been trying to figure out for a long time.  What that information did was take away any doubt that he was not from this planet and that he was much smarter than the professor and anyone else in the world.

If God provides us undeniable evidence that proves His awesome power, knowledge and ability to us all, the net result would be that every human man would no longer have any other option but to believe what God says is truth.  I believe that this type of strong evidence would  result in the loss of all human freedom for a man to believe whatever they wanted to by faith.  If God proved that He was God, no longer does any man have any freewill choices or decisions to make about the existence of God.   It is an interesting paradox.  The God who proves His love for us by coming personally and shedding His blood to pay the cost of our sin and He doesn’t even write down one letter in any book or leave any evidence proving His appearance.  He doesn’t us leave any photographic proof of His existence.  He doesn’t leave any scientific or DNA evidence other than the words of a few witnesses, some people who are told to go and tell the world that He appeared.  He tells these witnesses that those that believe their words spoken to them will be saved, but those who do not, will be damned (Mark 16:15-16).

Therefore, every man on the earth is left with only one choice, to believe or to not believe in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.  The ball of decision is not in court of God, but was specifically designed to give man the choice in a human court of faith.  A man must be sent to preach the good news to others (Romans 10:15-16).  This preacher man must believe that he is called to preach and then choose to preach.  Then men that he is sent to must choose to listen, hear, understand and believe the message.  This method of salvation is a spiritual system called faith that was designed, created and implemented by the sovereign God alone.  Knowing this should change everything about our perspective when we read the Bible.  We should change to begin to look for the hidden evidence in the Bible and we should start by believing in things that we can not understand completely without overwhelming evidence.

We can learn from just the simple story of Adam and Eve in the first 3 chapters of Genesis, that God provided everything that they had need of and it was all said to be created good in the eyes of God.  But, God said there was one thing that they shouldn’t do and that was to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  He didn’t say they couldn’t do it, but He did warn them that the day that they did eat they would surely die.  The Bible does not say that God fully explained what death was or that Adam remotely understood the consequences of disobedience.  But yet, God gave man the choice to make.  This is called freewill and every man has a right to it.

Apparently, Adam didn’t listen to the warning when he was faced with one of the world’s greatest decision choices that anyone could possibly make up until that time.  I do not believe that Adam understood the consequences of his choice for himself or all of his descendants and he definitely chose wrong.  Could God have stopped Adam from making this bad choice by providing more information, proof and evidence?  I believe the answer is YES!  Should God have stopped Adam by force from making this bad choice using His great knowledge?   I believe the answer is NO based upon His love alone!   Those are both interesting questions that only God can fully answer, but I believe the further involvement of God would have taken away the free will of the man to make his own choice to choose to obey and that is something I believe that God does not do.

So why is the Bible written in such a controversial way that appears to allow men to believe whatever they choose to believe?  I believe the primary reason is the fact that God has continued to give man a freewill choice in everything that he believes.  We can believe in Jesus is the LORD GOD or we can choose to believe that Jesus was just a prophet like Islamic teachings say.  We can believe in the existence of eternal damnation and hell or we can choose to believe in universal salvation.  We can believe in evolution or creation.  We can believe in whatever we want to believe in.  God wrote the Bible in this manner to allow us to find whatever we wish to search for in the Bible.  But, of course that right to believe in something that is so wrong will not help us on judgment day.  On judgment day, God will not be interested in our opinion or our beliefs.  It won’t matter if we think we are right with all of our heart.  We’ll not get to share our opinion with God on why we believed what we did on earth.  We better make sure what we believe is right here, right now and is based upon the most truthful and accurate information that we can search and find in God’s word.

Thank you for reading this little Bible lesson.  Infinite choices are presented in the Word of God.  However, there is always only one true interpretation and understanding and this will agree with God’s opinion and not mine or yours.  God Bless you and keep you and please leave a comment if can.