Power for Abundant Living

The Bible is the Word of Godteach us how to believe rightly, it will reprove us atthe places where we are believing wrongly, and it willcorrect us so that we can again believe rightly. Allthree of these are "instruction in righteousness."Many times a critic of the Bible comes along andsays, "Well, the Bible is not true. I feel that there aretoo many contradictions; the Bible really is justanother book among the rest of them." This is notthe testimony of the Word of God. The testimony ofthe Word of God is that all Scripture is God-breathedand is profitable for doctrine, which is to teach ushow to believe rightly, how to believe positively. Ifwe are going to tap the resources for the more abundantlife we must know how to believe rightly. To thepeople who say that the Bible has lots of error in it, Iwould like to state that the true Word of God isaccurate from Genesis to Revelation. The errors havecome in by man propounding those errors. Men havebrought their opinions and desires into The Word.When men come and say that they do not believe theBible, we must remember that the Bible was neverwritten for the unbeliever, the agnostic, or the infidel;the Bible was not written for the God-rejectors andthe God-deniers. The Bible was written for men andwomen who want to find answers. The Word of Godis given to men and women who want to tap resourcesfor the more abundant life. This is why thecritic who comes from the outside to the Word of82