Not Making This Stuff Up

I love a good story. Tales that inspire you to believe in something even though you know it is just the work of a creative mind. Characters that are real to you as your friends even though they just exist on paper or the silver screen. Stories have the power to excite us, to make us cry, to make us think, to make us care.

The Bible isn’t one of them.

It’s not that the Bible does not inspire, excite, or move us. It isn’t a story, in the sense of a story being a made-up or recreated tale. The Bible is a book of truth. The events it proclaims are facts not fiction, truth not tales, moments not myths.

For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

2^nd Peter 1:16

We need to make sure we keep that thought in our minds as we read and study it. The folks in it were flesh and blood, the events were not exaggeration and the words are wisdom and truth. They were not accounts made up years later to justify a faith but rather recordings of the things people saw and experienced. As Paul would say to Agrippa and Felix in Acts 26:26, “These things were not done in a corner”. There were eyewitnesses and ample proof. It was real people, real palaces, things that really happened.

The Bible is the greatest story ever told even though it is no story!

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