Is it reasonable to assume that a person could read the Bible, become familiar with God’s provided recounting of the history of the Earth, and simply choose to believe?  Is it believable that a God who has the power, knowledge outside of time’s constraint and Love necessary to create a species with the capacity to both get themselves into inescapable predicaments and accept the loving avenue given them to be freed of that confinement?  Would it be necessary in order to provide the insight, intelligence and experience necessary to developing the faith necessary to making such a choice to provide a historical set of tales, proofs and promises familiarizing man with His character?  Then taking all these reasonable statements in the affirmative why then are people perplexed, surprised or incapable of utilizing the Bible in order to make those important determinations for themselves?

Simple set of options in answering this interrogative; we don’t care, we don’t want to know, didn’t know or perhaps the enemies who neither want us to know God nor to perhaps make a decision to side with him desire to dissuade us from its uses.  Okay, some may not care, but it is pretty obvious that most people truly do have concern for their families and lives as the world becomes problematic.  We may not wish to know because having known enough about it to determine that it will require self sacrifice or the loss of our current self-determinism, it may be something we wish to avoid fully comprehending.  We may have suddenly become aware of this reasonable set of circumstances and now stand in that rare predicament of having to make a choice going forward.  Or the arch angel who currently rules here has done everything that he can to discredit, keep us out of and confound, complicate or twist God’s Word in ways that deprive or dissuade us from seeking our own understanding of its promise.  Whichever description aptly describes your current situation, I want you to know that God loves you and has given us the Bible that we might know Him and understand that He is waiting for each of us to make that fateful decision that will determine our eternity and our purposeful fulfillment on Earth.

Now the last obvious option is to choose to turn down God’s offer of salvation and thus choose a fate of spending eternity separated from his love, those who you loved and suffering for eternity in a lake of fire with the rest of those rebelling against God.  Now no one would choose that option would they, well if you’ve read the Bible you will know the horrible truth that many actually will choose to go to hell, though it was a place designed specifically for satan and his angels.  Yes, I said it, men were never meant to go there, they choose to go there, by turning down God’s offered salvation.  So, even those who turn down that offer and choose hell must have the necessary information to make that informed choice.  Well the only place to become sufficiently educated to making that choice is in the Bible.  I pray that you choose God, but I know the Bible well enough that many, even many that I know and love or loved will choose hell.  So at least learn the Bible that you might make an informed decision.  Perhaps if by reading it you may have your minds changed into accepting his offer of salvation and grace.  Then I will be doing my happy dance for that is the purpose for which I was sent in to your life.  May God be praised, may you get to know him personally through His Word, prayer and Spirit and may we spend eternity together enjoying the blessings of God.  In Jesus’ Name.