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5 Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To the Bible

A short excerpt from the book Hell Is A Mistranslation by Marc Speed

Before I give you the 5 Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To the Bible, you need to understand the importance of translating a few key words in the Bible accurately. Doing this instantly removes the most common objection to belief in the God of the Bible, the "God is a monster" objection ("Who would want to serve a God that created billions of people knowing that most of them would end up burning and screaming forever?"). To discover the basics, just click play.

OK, here is the "short version" (the thorough version is in my book Hell Is A Mistranslation) of the 5 Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To the (Accurately Translated) Bible.

Any writing that was actually inspired by God Himself would ideally have three characteristics:

1, proof in the form of foretelling the future accurately multiple times without fail (and a few accurate scientific statements made long before “human science” discovered their truth would be nice additional/secondary proof)

2, a valid logical explanation as to why God is allowing so many problems and so much pain on earth right now, and

3, it would reveal a logical plan in the mind of God to permanently fix mankind’s two biggest problems, death and corruption.

The accurately-translated Bible is the only claimed God-inspired “holy book” in the world that has these three ideal characteristics. And that is why I believe it actually was inspired by God – because it has proof that it was, and because the God it reveals actually makes sense to the human heart and mind.

With that in mind, here are 5 logical reasons I pay attention to the Bible.

1. It is the only “holy book” that commands its readers to “test everything and hold on to what is good”, thus instructing us to use the scientific method to discover truth – even to test its own writings and claims.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 says “Test everything and hold on to what is good.” This is an astounding statement coming from a “religious book”. Religions and religious leaders are notorious for saying (spoken or unspoken) things like “Just believe me.” “Just obey.” “Just do what we say.” “Don’t question.” “Just go with the flow of what the leader says.” “If you question the leader God will be mad at you.” “Just be a good little member of the religion, don’t make waves; if you question us, make waves, or cause any kind of problem at all, we’ll gladly show you the left foot of fellowship.”

The Bible, in stark contrast, commands everyone to test everything. Just because Christian leaders who have zero personal incentive to instruct their followers to obey this Biblical command never preach on it, doesn’t mean it isn’t in the Bible. Forget the typical preacher for a second (or maybe, for longer than that!) and just focus on this amazing command found in the Bible: “Test everything and hold on to what is good”.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 is the “scientific method” in a nutshell. It’s what (unbiased) scientists do (or at least, what they’re supposed to do). They say, “Hey, I wonder if such-and-such is true.” Then they test their hypothesis. If the whole thing turns out to be garbage, they don’t “hold on” to it – they trash it. If part of it turns out to be right, but part is wrong, they “hold on to the good” and trash the rest. If their whole hypothesis turns out to be spot-on, they “hold on” to it. Simple. The Bible commands its readers to use this method to discover truth about the world, and even to discover the truth about its own writings and claims.

Thankfully, the Bible does not ask you to subscribe to the silly idea that a person should believe whatever strikes their fancy, relying on “blind faith” regardless of whether there is any proof that what they believe is rational or logical. The Bible does not ask for blind faith; true faith (reliance, trust, belief) is, according to 1 Thessalonians 5:21, based upon rational, logical, reliable evidence.

God does not ask for blind faith, He asks for seeing faith – faith that sees the evidence and rests in solid certainty because the evidence is so strong to support it. True faith is certainty based on the fact that the evidence around us points to the fact that a God exists who has a plan and keeps His Word. (In a moment you’ll see how the idea that God has a plan and keeps His Word is extremely important, when we discuss the other Logical Reasons I Pay Attention to the Bible.)

So the Bible asks you to believe in the unseen based on rational evidence. Imagine that!

The lack of encouragement for people to test their beliefs is why we have thousands of religions in this world. Logically, either none of these religions is right, or only one of them is right, or only one of them is part-right. So what can the truth-seeker do? Well, in any area of study there is only one way to find out the truth, and that is through testing. If two chess players each claim to be better than the other, it’s easy to find out who’s better. Put them to the test. Let them play each other.

I certainly do not have time in this article to go into a full discussion of “evidence that the Bible was inspired by God vs. evidence that any other religion was inspired by God”. So instead I’m simply going to make a simple statement: I challenge you to read my book Hell Is A Mistranslation and then find another religion, “holy book”, or worldview that makes as much sense to your heart and your head and has remotely as much evidence for its veracity combined with ultimate hope for all humanity, as the (accurately translated) Bible.

I also need to mention that every supposed “contradiction” or “disproving” of the Bible I’ve ever heard about, when I tested it (researched it further than the surface level), I found a simple answer that instead of disproving the Bible, proved it to be even more trustworthy than I thought before. This is why I always encourage people to research and test claims they’ve heard that seem to disprove the Bible. That’s also why on my website I answer classic questions like “Why would God be so cruel in the Old Testament days and command His people to kill women & children?” (article coming soon) and classic claims like “the Bible is just a different version of ancient Sumerian/Babylonian stories” (which was the best argument against the Bible I’d ever heard and the one which stumped me the longest).

(By the way, the over-simplified answer to that one is that the Bible’s Hebrew/Yahweh-worshipper stories are more trustworthy – much less-changed over the years due to the Yahweh-worshippers’ obsession with keeping stories unchanged and leaders’ relative benevolence, in contrast with other cultures’ frequent changing/twisting/adding/enhancing for purposes of control by their exploitative leaders. Therefore the Bible’s less-changed versions of the stories are much more likely to be the truth, while the often-changed pagan versions are most likely the twisted/counterfeited versions.)

So every time I’ve investigated a logical-sounding reason why “the Bible wasn’t inspired by God”, I’ve always ended up having even more logical reasons to believe it was inspired by God. There’s always been a logical answer to the various claims I’ve tested that “the Bible is a bunch of crock”. Granted, it takes time, study, testing, and research to get to the bottom of a subject and find the truth. That’s why I designed my website and resources in the hopes that it will be a “shortcut” for truth-seekers (who may be very busy in their lives with work and family) to important information that is hard or time-consuming to find (often from many different sources) elsewhere.

It’s also why I recommend reading my books, because they contain answers to questions that many people have and few people – even most “Bible experts” – can answer! And after you see what I have to say, do me a favor: test it! I think if you do that you’ll find that although I certainly don’t claim to be perfect, I do know what I’m talking about in certain areas. Still, no matter how much I think I know, it’s so important that you test what I say because, like I said, I’m only human, I’m not perfect. And even if I was, how can you know I’m right if you don’t test what I say for yourself?

Dear reader, I challenge you to find any other religion, worldview, or “holy book” that invites questioning and testing of every aspect of its writings and claims! (Even the religion of Christianity does not do this, although their own Bible commands it, because its leaders have no personal incentive to encourage it.) The whole world is full of people – politicians, media outlets, and religious leaders – all saying “Just believe me!” The Bible alone stands out, saying, “Test everything, including what I say!”

And for those of you who already consider yourselves Christians and “Bible-believers”, I would exhort you to test everything your leaders say and everything the religion of mainstream Christianity says as well. There is some good and some bad in mainstream Christianity. To give just one small example, mainstream Christianity has some excellent resources on the topic of proof that the Bible was inspired by God (such as Evidence That Demands A Verdict or scientist Dr. Hugh Ross’s books).

But on the other hand – to give the example of what I think is possibly mainstream Christianity’s biggest weakness – it runs into a huge wall with thinking people because it ignorantly champions the ridiculous pagan-oriented idea of “eternal punishment” (due to the fact that it is reading English Bibles that badly mistranslate certain key words – see my book Hell Is A Mistranslation). What good does it do to “prove” the God of the Bible is real if He turns out to be a monster who will make sure that most of His precious creations are tortured for trillions upon trillions of years?

So no matter where you’re coming from, Christian or non-Christian, I encourage you to simply obey 1 Thessalonians 5:21. Don't believe that Jesus existed or that He rose from the dead? Fine - go study it. Put the Bible's claims to the test. The Bible is not afraid of that - on the contrary, it commandsyou to do that!

Anybody can see it’s just common sense to only believe something if there is strong evidence that it is the truth. In a world full of religions and leaders saying “just believe me!”, the fact that the Bible commands its readers to test everything including its own writings and claims, is remarkable – beyond remarkable, it’s astounding. Something or someone who has and/or wants the truth is not afraid of investigation.

OK, on to the 2nd Logical Reason I Pay Attention To the Bible:

2) It is the only “holy book” that has foretold the future accurately (and in great detail) multiple times without a single miss so far.

The Bible is the only claimed God-inspired “holy book” that I know of that has actual proof that its writings were “inspired” by God. The Bible itself claims it is inspired by God (2 Tim. 3;16), so you would think that if God was really making such a statement in His Word, He would back it up by giving us some logical reason to believe it’s true. Especially since He commands us to test that statement and every statement made by the Bible or anything/anyone else (1 Thess. 5:21)!

The Bible states that God says in Isaiah 46:5-11 (my loose paraphrase), “If you other ‘gods’ are really gods, then do what I do: tell the future.” Verses 9-11 say it straight out:

“I am God, and there is no other…there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure.’…Truly I have spoken, truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, I will do it.”

It doesn’t get much more straightforward than that. The Bible claims that the God of the Bible tells the future. It’s certainly logical that if God exists He should be able to tell the future. But again, the crucial question is, Is there any real evidence that He has actually done it? The simple answer is “Yes”.

There is no way in an article this size that I can go into every prophecy of the Bible that has come true so far. So I’m simply going to give you one powerful example that ought to whet your appetite for investigating the Bible’s predictions – both those that have already come true, and those that will in the future.

Tyre was a significant port city in ancient times. When it was at the height of its influence, in 590 B.C., the prophet Ezekiel made six astounding predictions, which are recorded in the Bible in Ezekiel 26. As you read these predictions, try to imagine someone forecasting (not just speculating, but stating with absolute confidence) today that similar things would happen – including the rich detail – to Sydney, Australia, for example. Imagine how ridiculous anyone making such detailed predictions with absolute confidence, would sound. (Also remember this was long before one nuclear bomb could destroy a city in seconds.) Ezekiel’s 6 predictions about Tyre made in 590 B.C. were:

1 – Nebuchadnezzar would attack Tyre (vs. 7-11)

2 – The city would be destroyed (vs. 8-12)

3 – The city’s rocks would be scraped into the sea (v. 4)

4 – Many nations would fight against the city (v. 3)

5 – Fishermen would spread their nets on the city (vs. 5, 14)

6 – Tyre would never be rebuilt (v. 14)

Please notice the multiple details of this prophecy. If even one of them didn’t happen, it was a false prophecy, and the Bible is a bunch of crock! If one nation attacked Tyre, but not many nations, the prophecy was false. If Nebuchadnezzar didn’t attack Tyre, the prophecy was false. If the city wasn’t completely destroyed or was ever rebuilt, the prophecy was false. If the city was destroyed but fishermen didn’t spread their nets on its former site afterwards, the prophecy was false. And if Tyre’s rocks weren’t scraped into the sea, the prophecy was false.

That’s the strange one to me – what on earth could cause a city’s rocks to be scraped into the sea? Ezekiel’s prediction was actually even more specific than that; here’s a quote from Ezekiel 26: “…and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water...And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.” Now that’s specific! And highly unlikely – again, why would anyone ever bother to lay (not just throw, but “lay”, as if being careful about it) the city’s “stones and timber and dust in the midst of the water”?

Multiple details like this mean that the odds are miniscule that they would actually happen. Some estimates are that the odds of all six of these details being fulfilled about Tyre (if one had predicted them before they happened like Ezekiel did) are about 75 million to 1.

So, let’s cut to the chase – did the 6 detailed events Ezekiel predicted would happen to one of the most powerful cities of his day, actually happen? Yes. In my book Hell Is A Mistranslation I give you the historical details, including how one of Alexander the Great's most precocious acts of war helped fulfill the strangest of Ezekiel's 6 predictions.

Our friend Ezekiel's predictions came true, to a tee. He was 6 out of 6. This begs the question, "Where did he get his information from?"

I’ll leave you to ponder that question as I move on to the 3rd Logical Reason I Pay Attention To the Bible:

3) When properly interpreted it does not contradict any legitimate proven discovery of science, and it is also the only “holy book” that made several scientifically accurate statements centuries/millennia before the science of man discovered their truth.

I am not going to take the time to talk about the first point in this article, because I discuss it in my article Why The God Vs. Science Debate Is Unnecessary. Please do not assume you know what I’m going to say in that article, because some of what I say there I haven’t heard anywhere else. For now suffice it to say I could not believe that the Bible was inspired by an all-knowing God if its content blatantly contradicted any legitimate (proven) discoveries of science.

(I know many readers may think the Bible blatantly contradicts science, but if you read the article I referenced above I believe you will see it does not. Simply put, once Christians straighten out two mistakes they make in interpreting their own Bible, the two main objections scientists have to the Bible disappear.)

As far as my second point, that the Bible made several scientifically accurate statements many centuries before the science of man discovered their truth, here are a few examples:

1. The beginning of space and time was also the beginning of the material universe (Genesis 1:1, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 11:3).

2. The universe had a beginning (Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:3-4, John 1:3, Hebrews 11:3, Psalm 148:5).

3. The physical universe was not (originally) made out of what is visible or detectable (Hebrews 11:3).

4. The universe, ever since its beginning, has been and is always expanding, and this expansion resembles the spreading out and setting up of a tent (Psalm 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, Jeremiah 10:12, Zechariah 12:1, Job 9:8, and others – the Hebrew verb used in “stretches out the heavens” means constant continuous stretching).

5. The whole universe operates by physical laws to which it is subject (Romans 8:20-22, Jeremiah 33:25).

The above five facts (especially 1 though 4) have only been discovered by scientific testing within the last century. Yet the Bible stated them thousands of years earlier. Again, I ask the logical question, where did the Biblical writers get their “inside information”?

If you’re interested in reading more about the subject of the Bible and science, I highly recommend several excellent books by Dr. Hugh Ross, such as Why The Universe Is the Way It Is. Dr. Ross is a scientist but writes in a style that anyone can understand, and his books will cause you to marvel at the universe in which we live. I also like the fact that Dr. Ross intelligently engages scientific discovery, rather than shying away from it or simplistically branding all non-Christian scientists as liars or conspirators, as many ignorant Bible-thumping preachers do. (When reading Dr. Ross’s books, “test everything and hold on to what is good” for yourself as always, because even I don’t necessarily agree with every single thing he says about every single subject.)

OK, here are the last two – the 4th and 5th Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To the Bible. I’ll explain them both at the same time.

4) When the Bible is accurately translated, it logically explains why there are (and more significantly, why God would allow) so many problems on earth right now.

5) It is the only “holy book” that (when it is correctly translated) teaches that God has a good plan for all mankind (not “burn most and party with a few” like virtually all other religions) which includes solving both of mankind’s big problems (death and corruption/selfishness).

I explain these two points in detail in my new book Hell Is A Mistranslation. In the book I point out a few blatant mistranslations from the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts that are found in the English Bibles most people have in their hands, and sort out what the Bible says when you can read what it really says in its passages on the important subject of the destiny of the human race. I highly recommend you read those articles; here I will not go into great detail, I’ll give you the “Cliff Notes” version. (For the point-by-point, clear and easy-to-understand Scriptural proof, you can read the book.)

First of all let me make it clear that in order to understand the mind of God when it comes to “why He would allow so much suffering right now”, you are going to have to ignore what the religion of Christianity says, because they simply don’t know. The religion of Christianity has no answer for the extremely important question: If God loves people, why doesn’t He just come down and fix everything? They might answer, “Well…He will, in the future…for a few people”, but that doesn’t answer the question. It doesn’t answer the more fundamental question, "If God exists, why would He bring billions of precious humans into existence knowing beforehand that most of them would end up burning and screaming forever after spending 80 years or so of difficult life on earth?" What would be the point of bringing them into existence in the first place if He knew that would be their fate?

And even if most people end up not burning forever, but merely ceasing to exist (as some Christians erroneously claim, blatantly ignoring plain statements in the Bible such as 1 Cor. 15:20-28, Col. 1:20, Eph. 1:10, Rom. 5:18, and 1 Tim. 4:10), what would be the point of God bringing them into existence just to experience a few decades of rough life on earth? It’s easy for a few modern Westerners to say “I enjoyed my life OK, it wasn’t too bad”, but that discounts the majority of people throughout history whose lives have been pretty miserable by modern Western standards, and the millions/billions of people who unarguably have had short, difficult, painful lives, have died in war, etc. etc. etc.

My point is, mainstream Christianity cannot answer the biggest "Why" questions of all – so don’t look to them for the answer. They don’t even know what their own Bible says on the most important questions. And amazingly, they are too busy trying to convert everyone to a religion which ultimately makes no sense, to even stop and think about the fact that it ultimately makes no sense! (This is not to disparage or criticize many Christians who have made many sacrifices and given their lives in service of others and done many wonderful things – I’m simply making a point.)

Mainstream Christianity is stumped by the big "Why?" questions about God and life because they are reading an English Bible with the words “hell” & “forever” in it, which are simple mistranslations, and should never appear in any Bible in any language because they are not in the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. Get the mistranslations straight and sort it all out, and you find out the Bible teaches God has a plan for the ages to eventually teach all of mankind to live happily in immortality (Col. 1:20, Rom. 5:18, 1 Cor. 15:20-28, 1 Tim. 4:10, Rom. 11:32, Eph. 1:10, I suggest reading these verses in the accurately-translated Concordant Version). Various forms of the word “age” and “ages” are all over the place in the New Testament but you’d never know it because they are often ridiculously and blatantly mistranslated as “eternal/everlasting/forever/forever-and-ever”). When you translated all these instances of the Greek word “eon/eons” (“age/ages”), and study it out, you see that God has a plan for the ages where each age is a stage in God’s education of humanity.

The age we are in right now, along with the one before, which together span what we would call “human history”, are the most unpleasant stages, where God’s main purpose is to let mankind try everything every stupid idea we can think of so we can see how horrible it turns out. In other words, His plan is to let us see in living color the consequences of operating in ways other than how He designed us to operate.

God designed us to operate in love, not selfishness – in consideration of others, not hurting others. Yet human history has been one long drama of corruption where the rich and powerful exploit everybody else. In order for humanity’s problems to be fixed, human nature must change. And according to the accurately translated Bible, through God’s plan for the ages and His additional education of most of humanity directly at His throne in the future, humanity will eventually realize that we are nothing apart from God and His design for our operation.

God will do a good job educating us through experience (the best kind and often the only way people will learn) so that eventually, when we all “watch the videotape” of human history it’ll be extremely clear to us what works and what doesn’t work, and we’ll learn to rely exclusively on God and His design and will not longer be tempted to try out ideas that contradict His. Then God can trust everyone with immortality again and He will be “all in all” (Col 1:20, 1 Cor. 15:20-28, Eph. 1:10).

If you are a Christian and your head is spinning right now, with thoughts of “what about this verse?” and “what about that verse?” and “what about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man?” etc. etc., it’s good that you’re thinking that way because it means you are testing what I’m saying. Again, read the articles in the Hell Mistranslation section of my website and you’ll see the answers explained right out of the accurately-translated Bible. You’ll see that I’m not just pulling stuff out of thin air, but that it’s actually Christians themselves who have been ignoring plain statements of Scripture like Col. 1:20, Eph. 1:10, 1 Cor. 15:20-28, Rom. 5:18, 1 Tim. 4:10, etc., and who have been mistranslating their own English Bible in order to cling to the ridiculous “eternal punishment” doctrine they inherited from Catholicism, which got it from paganism and purposefully combined it with Christianity in the Middle Ages.

So that is the basic, simple, logical explanation for why God is allowing suffering and pain in this age – He allows it for the same reason a parent allows an older teenage or young-adult child to experience pain. It is a necessary part of growing up. It is an integral “experiential” stage in the educational process of an intelligent person learning to live wisely and make wise decisions on his own without having to be controlled or given immediate punishments every time they do something stupid (like a child).

Unfortunately, this stage in the development of an intelligent being simply cannot be skipped. As soon as God decided to bring intelligent beings capable of choice into existence, He faced the same problem/dilemma any human parent faces when they decide to bring an intelligent being capable of choice into the world: How do we teach this choosing-being to make good choices all the time? How do we get her to LISTEN to us and not think she’s SMARTER than us? Usually the answer is, “We’ve eventually got to let her make her own choices and see the consequences of them.”

Now, contrary to what many Christians say, the accurately-translated Bible reveals that God is smart enough and wise enough to bring us all around to live wisely and lovingly together happily ever after. (See my article God’s Ultimate Plan For Humanity.)

The intense suffering that some experience, and the moderate suffering that many experience during this age, although it seems like a big deal now, will seem like nothing later on in the light of trillions of years of happy immortality living in perfect peace, love and harmony with each other. We will remember it like a forty-year old might remember scraping his knee at the age of five. Still, scraping your knee is traumatic (for a short time) for a five-year-old. God does not enjoy watching humanity in pain any more than a parent enjoys watching their 22-yr-old son who has made some bad decisions experience pain, but God must allow humanity to experience some trauma for a short time (in the grand scheme of things) so we can see the horrible, painful consequences of operating in a way He has not designed.

Some might argue, “is this pain really necessary though?” OK, again, put yourself in God’s shoes – you want to bring intelligent beings into existence and give them some semblance of free will (you don’t want robots, that’s no fun), but you know if you do that they are going to want to do things in a way they were not designed by you to do them – because they have free will, they’re not robots. So your challenge is the same challenge any parent has – eventually you have to let them go through a phase where they make their own choices and reap the consequences, so they can learn in hindsight, from experience.

God just figured, “Hey, I’m going to get this phase out of the way as quickly as possible – I’m going to accelerate it and get it over with faster – by introducing a negative influence (Satan) to give everybody stupid ideas and inspire them put those stupid ideas into practice faster than they’d do it on their own; I’ll let this go on for a few thousand years, long enough to create a super-convincing “videotape” for all of humanity to watch later, I’ll let human self-rulership reach an ugly climax (one-world government with mega-control via cashless economy mark/barcode on everyone), and then show everybody a videotape afterward so they can see how stupid the whole thing was.”

Some of you Christians may balk at my reference to God “using” Satan (in the grand scheme of things) to accomplish His overarching purpose, but a) notice I didn’t say you as an individual can’t overcome much of his negative influence now in this age, with God’s help, and b) what would your explanation be as to why God is allowing Satan free reign during this age (2 Cor. 4:4, Luke 4:5-6) only to tie him up after this age when according to mainstream Christianity it’s “too late”? Again, mainstream Christianity has no good answer for this question because one of its primary doctrines, eternal punishment, originated in paganism and thus makes God out to be a nonsensical monster.

The accurately translated Bible, on the other hand, actually reveals God to be the wise, loving Father everyone would naturally expect Him to be. This is why I always say that God’s plan for humanity and what He is allowing at this time (which in the near future will get worse before it gets better) is nothing any parent couldn’t understand. The accurately-translated Bible reveals that God has a logical reason for everything He has done, is doing/allowing, and will do. Since you cannot control a person into acting wisely, you must teach and then also allow experience to teach the person.

God allowing Satan to be the “god of this age” (2 Cor. 4:4) is basically the equivalent of a parent allowing a young person to be an “accelerating” negative influence on their 18-yr-old because they know (pretending they’re sovereign like God) it will get their child’s painful rebellious phase over with more quickly. (Obviously a human parent would never do this because they lack the sovereignty to make it work out, but you can see how a sovereign God could do it and make it work out perfectly, saving mankind thousands of years of pain in the process by getting the rebellion phase over with more quickly.)

The accurately translated Bible is the only “holy book” that reveals a happy ending for all mankind as well as a logical reason why God would allow the pain of human history. These facts alone make it the claimed God-inspired writing that is by far the most worthy of investigation. After all, who would want to serve a nonsensical torturing-monster God, even if He was real?

Thankfully, there is one "holy book" that not only has proof that it was inspired by God, but also reveals a happy ending for everybody. Just like a Hollywood movies. Not that God modeled His plan after a Hollywood movie, of course not. Rather, Hollywood hit-makers recognize the built-in human desire for a happy ending. Who do you think built that desire into us? If God doesn’t exist, humanity ain’t gonna get no happy ending. (Corrupt rich/powerful people will continue to rule and exploit everybody else, and eventually the universe will expand so much that life is not possible.) But if the God who inspired the writings of the (accurately-translated) Bible exists, then we’re gonna have our happy ending my friends. The happy ending will happen, even if you don’t realize it now. Sweet.

The accurately translated Bible is unique amongst all claimed God-inspired writings in that it has proof that is was inspired by God (as I pointed out earlier in the article), and also in the fact that the God it reveals makes sense to both the head and the heart of humanity. Humanity has two huge problems – corruption and death – that they have not been able to (and will not be able to) solve on their own. But according to the accurately translated Bible, the problem of death will be solved supernaturally by God (who created death in the first place as a merciful consequence/lesson for operating incorrectly and hurting others), and the problem of corruption/selfishness will be solved by the lessons made abundantly clear to all mankind through God’s plan for the ages whereby all of us will learn to love each other.

In other words, the accurately translated Bible is the only “holy book” that declares God will fulfill the deepest desires of humanity.

In closing, test everything, as common sense dictates and 1 Thessalonians 5:21 commands. If you disagree with what I say, I challenge you to test it (not just discard it). For the reasons I expounded in this article (among others), I believe the accurately-translated Bible was truly inspired by God, and that it’s the only real hope mankind has that its problems will ever be fixed.

Thanks for reading.

- Marc Speed

For more information you can read my book Hell Is A Mistranslation. (For a preview of the material in the book see the Hell Articles section of the website.)

5 Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To the Bible Copyright 2010 Marc Speed

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