I understand your point. Well, John was Jesus eyewitness, and the other gospels were written by disciples,
How can you be 100% certain of this??
which had their informations also from eyewitnesses, namely Jesus' apostles.
And this?
That fact does not make necessarly the Gospels more ore less faithful and true. Beside this, we have the letters, written by the apostels, like Paul, John, Peter etc. which gave us all instructions and doctrine . What we have to focus on, is : are the writings of the sacred scriptures, independently if they were written by the great teachers themself, or by their disciples, a human invention, or are they the revelation of the true living God ? I do not believe, the living God is a lier, which decieves willfully his creatures.
True. But is it God deceiving or is it Man? Did God write the texts or did Man? Did Man write the texts when these world changing events occurred or did he write them many years later? How reliable is "eyewitness" testimony decades after the event? You have made some implicit assumptions here that I am challenging
There is only one reality, and one truth.
Since there are literally thousands of religions in the world, and all say something different, its obvious they cannot all be true. The truth is only one.
I agree on one source. I also believe the difference are there because different men wrote the respective scriptures. This is why I look for the message and not dwell on the literal text. When you take that sort of approach you will find there is a lot of commonality amongst these religions
So we have to ask ourself : which one does have the credentials to reflect the true truth ? Only one is possible. Jesus Christ differentiates himself from all spiritural leaders, which entered this world, manyfolds. First of all, Jesus came as the impersonification of the living God, truly men, but truly God as well.
Jesus made miracles, which no other human being did before, and after him. Jesus was the fullfillment of over 400 prophecies in the old testament, and fullfilled ALL of them.
No offence but please do not state your beliefs as factual evidence
One of the most explicit one is in Isaiah 53, where its written :
53:1 Who would have believed 1 what we 2 just heard? 3
When 4 was the Lord’s power 5 revealed through him?
53:2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, 6
like a root out of parched soil; 7
he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, 8
no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 9
53:3 He was despised and rejected by people, 10
one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness;
people hid their faces from him; 11
he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 12
53:4 But he lifted up our illnesses,
he carried our pain; 13
even though we thought he was being punished,
attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. 14
53:5 He was wounded because of 15 our rebellious deeds,
crushed because of our sins;
he endured punishment that made us well; 16
because of his wounds we have been healed. 17
53:6 All of us had wandered off like sheep;
each of us had strayed off on his own path,
but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him. 18
53:7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, 19
but he did not even open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,
like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not even open his mouth. 20
53:8 He was led away after an unjust trial 21 –
but who even cared? 22
Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; 23
because of the rebellion of his own 24 people he was wounded.
53:9 They intended to bury him with criminals, 25
but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, 26
because 27 he had committed no violent deeds,
nor had he spoken deceitfully.
53:10 Though the Lord desired to crush him and make him ill,
once restitution is made, 28
he will see descendants and enjoy long life, 29
and the Lord’s purpose will be accomplished through him.
53:11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work,
he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. 30
“My servant 31 will acquit many, 32
for he carried their sins. 33
53:12 So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, 34
he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, 35
because he willingly submitted 36 to death
and was numbered with the rebels,
when he lifted up the sin of many
and intervened 37 on behalf of the rebels.”
more prophecies, which fullfilled in regard of Jesus, you can read here :
http://100prophecies.org/page4.htm
beside this, we have prophecies in the bible, which did not fullfill already, but if we look around us, we see how the world is running exactly toward the end of times with things preparing to happen exactly as described in the bible.
I commented at length on Bible prophecy in my last post, to which you have yet to reply. Suffice it to say, I do not agree with anythinig you have written here
For example the bible tells us that a Antichrist will come, which will be the leader of a one world government, a totalitary and dictatorial system , with total control of its citizen, where nobody will nead cash money to buy, and to sell.
Well, what we see today, is exactly this scenario : the world is running towards a one worls government. The freemasons, the illuminati, and some other organisations, are ruling the world behind the scene. The european union is already a reality. The Bilderberg group reunites each year the most influent men to decide the destiny of our world. They are the leaders, which control the industry, banking system, media, governments, simply everything. Each crisis is provoked by them, with the clear goal, to have a new world order, which is a system of a one world government. Nobody will be able to buy and sell through cash money. Each one of us will need to have a microchip implant in our skin, exactly as prophetized in the bible, without it, nobody will be able to buy or sell anything.
just a few examples. Later on i can write more reasons which make me believe, the Bible is the inspired word of God.
