If you know me, you can write everything you know about me and give an accurate report. If others believe in you, they will also believe in the report you have written about me.
If all you know about me is my name, however, all you can do is speculate and thereby create an image of me out of your own imagination; and if others believe in you, they will also believe in the image that you have created, and this image will become their image in their imaginations. Even though they have never met me, they can believe in this false image that you have created all because they believe in you.
False images are also contagious. When they are lit, they will spread like a wild fire from person to person, from family to family, and from friends to friends, and then they can continue for years and even for generations.
How many people today will not read about God of the Bible, but they will read books about God written by people who do not know God? In so doing, they will embrace an image of God from the imaginations of the writers, for their belief is in the writers.
This false image of God is also contagious. When lit, it will spread like a wild fire from person to person, from family to family, and friends to friends, and then it will continue for years and even for generations.
Therefore, when people arrive in church or in a Christian religion, and with their belief in this false image of God, they will believe this God is real, they will also believe that this God will forgive them for their sins---when all they have is an image of God in their imaginations.
Thus we can see that a false image of God from the imaginations of others can also become a God of our own imaginations.
Whereas, if these people had believed in God of the Bible, then their forgiveness of sin would have been real.
A false image of Christ can also be presented in the same way: by people who do not know Christ, they can create a Christ of their own image, and this image will also be contagious---going from person to person, family to family, friends to friends, for years as well as for generations.
For, just as people believe in books about God written by people who not know God, they can just as easily believe in books about Christ written by people who do not know Christ.
So today, my friends, is God of the Bible real in your heart, or is God an image in your imagination?
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2nd Corinthians 10: 5)
Is Jesus of the Bible also real in your heart, or is Jesus an image in your imagination?
Is Jesus, therefore, the Christ in your life?
"Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name
under heaven
given among men,
whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4: 12)
If all you know about me is my name, however, all you can do is speculate and thereby create an image of me out of your own imagination; and if others believe in you, they will also believe in the image that you have created, and this image will become their image in their imaginations. Even though they have never met me, they can believe in this false image that you have created all because they believe in you.
False images are also contagious. When they are lit, they will spread like a wild fire from person to person, from family to family, and from friends to friends, and then they can continue for years and even for generations.
How many people today will not read about God of the Bible, but they will read books about God written by people who do not know God? In so doing, they will embrace an image of God from the imaginations of the writers, for their belief is in the writers.
This false image of God is also contagious. When lit, it will spread like a wild fire from person to person, from family to family, and friends to friends, and then it will continue for years and even for generations.
Therefore, when people arrive in church or in a Christian religion, and with their belief in this false image of God, they will believe this God is real, they will also believe that this God will forgive them for their sins---when all they have is an image of God in their imaginations.
Thus we can see that a false image of God from the imaginations of others can also become a God of our own imaginations.
Whereas, if these people had believed in God of the Bible, then their forgiveness of sin would have been real.
A false image of Christ can also be presented in the same way: by people who do not know Christ, they can create a Christ of their own image, and this image will also be contagious---going from person to person, family to family, friends to friends, for years as well as for generations.
For, just as people believe in books about God written by people who not know God, they can just as easily believe in books about Christ written by people who do not know Christ.
So today, my friends, is God of the Bible real in your heart, or is God an image in your imagination?
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2nd Corinthians 10: 5)
Is Jesus of the Bible also real in your heart, or is Jesus an image in your imagination?
Is Jesus, therefore, the Christ in your life?
"Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name
under heaven
given among men,
whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4: 12)
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