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I like to advise Christians (and anybody else that’s interested) to read the whole of the Holy Bible at least once.
By doing so, we will be more equipped to guard against those who desire to misrepresent God.
If you are unable to read, then I suggest listening to an audio version, but I would strongly advise against watching a video
version. Because that still has another person’s influence and isn't as close to what happened,
as is the written literature of the bible.
One of the first things that a Christian advices somebody that’s newly converted, who wants to start believing in God,
is to advice that person to come to church.
But the first thing I want to tell that person is to read the whole of the bible,
and if they like, then continue going to church while doing this.
Because we need to protect ourselves against fake prophets, pastors, and people,
whose actual goals are to have us do differently than what God intended for us to do in the first place.
There's a story in the book of Kings 1, chapter 13.
And the main characters in this story are,
‘the prophet from Judah’
an older prophet in Bethel,
and King Jeroboam.
‘The prophet from Judah’ was sent by God to the city of Bethel.
To warn King Jeroboam of his idol worshiping and how he had led Israel astray.
After a sequence of events later,
King Jeroboam invites the prophet to eat and drink with him at his house.
But he replies the King saying “God has said that I am not allowed to eat or drink in this city”.
So he went his way.
Later on, an older prophet in Bethel met with ‘the prophet from Judah’.
He also invites the prophet to eat and drink at his house.
And at first ‘the prophet from Judah’ declines his invitation,
but then the older prophet manages to persuade him, by saying
“God has told me, to bring you back to my house and to eat and drink there” (But of course he was lying to him).
So ‘the prophet from Judah’ ended up dying because he believed the “word”
of the older prophet, instead of staying with what God had commanded him,
which was to not eat or drink in the city of Bethel.
A similar situation happened in the Garden of Eden.
When the serpent was able convince Eve that she wasn't going to die even if she ate of the forbidden tree.
But at least Eve, and ‘the prophet from Judah’ stood a fighting chance,
in that they had known what God wanted before they were told to the contrary.
But if we don't even have a point of reference within the word of God,
then we leave ourselves vulnerable to be lead to destruction.
A stronger reason to read the whole of the bible
can be found in the book of Mathew, Chapter 4, verse 6.
Here, Satan begins to twists passages from the bible in an attempt to deceive Jesus like how he deceived Eve.
So even the devil knows the bible and by this will,
and by this will, continue to use people to say the opposite of the word of God,
like how he used the older prophet in the story I told earlier on.
So let us not allow the devil to capitalize on our lack of knowledge of the bible.
Try and stay protected and may God continue to bless our minds.
Amen