Ken Ham is a man who does a great work of urging Christians to take the Bible for what it says, especially in regards to creation and the account of Genesis. Because you boys have been asking me a lot about how we can know that the Bible is true, and how we can know that the flood really happened, etc., I decided to order some materials from his ministry, Answers In Genesis. While ordering, I ran across a quote from the creators of the material that went something like this, "We shouldn't be teaching our kids Bible 'stories'. They will begin to think of David and Goliath along the same lines as Beauty and the Beast... Just another fairy tale. Instead when we teach them we should say, 'This is the true account of David and Goliath, or the world-wide flood, etc."
I have no problem with the term Bible stories as long as you know these are TRUE stories. This is not fiction. These are non-fiction stories. These are true accounts. Real history.
I'm excited to get the material I ordered. I'm praying that I will be able to teach it to you and hopefully other kid too, over the summer as sort of a vacation Bible school. I'd love to invite some neighborhood kids. We'll see what God allows.
So back to what I was saying. I also am reading a wonderful book about the disciplines of a woman of God. The author says at one point that one of the things we often miss in teaching others the gospel of Christ is that the Gospel of Christ is revealed from Genesis to Revelation. It's not just in the New Testament. When Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians he said:
"For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures..." (1 Cor.15:3-4).
When Paul wrote that he didn't have a leather bound Bible from Walmart and neither did the people he wrote to. He had the Old Testament. He had the writings of Moses and the Psalms and prophets. These are the scriptures according to which we find out that Christ died for our sins and was buried and rose again on the third day. This lights me up! I love it! I want you to see that. But I can't make you see it.
Oh how I pray that the Holy Spirit will give you understanding to see Christ your Savior who died for your sins and was buried and raised from the dead from Genesis to Revelation!
Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. -Luke 24:25-27
