The Bible Is the Word of Salvation, Not a Book of Science



“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2)

The Bible is not a science book. The Bible is the Word of Truth that saves everyone from sin. It is the Word that brings the remission of sin to mankind. The Word of the Scriptures is the blessed Word of salvation that God spoke and fulfilled to mankind. As it is written, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39). The Bible is the Word that enables mankind to be saved from sin and receive eternal life. Therefore, for one to be saved from his sins, he must first of all realize the condition of his heart through the Word of the Scriptures.

When God said here, “The earth was without form,” He was describing the condition of everyone’s heart. The Word of God is saying that everyone’s heart is without form like this, and that by its very nature it is fundamentally sinful. In everyone’s heart, all these three conditions of formlessness, void, and darkness are present. Put differently, formlessness, void, and sin are lodged deep in the hearts of people, in their minds and thoughts. That the thoughts of mankind are “without form” applies to those who do not know God’s Word of Truth, and consequently have not met Jesus Christ. The word “void” refers to the unsatisfied condition of the hearts of sinners. That the darkness is lodged in the depth of the human heart, on the other hand, means that the sins of mankind are hidden deep in their hearts.

For those who have not truly encountered the gospel of the water and the Spirit given to us by the Lord, their hearts are defined by formlessness itself. In other words, they do not know what the Truth of God is-that is, they do not know what the gospel of the water and the Spirit is-and so they are wandering around, trapped in their own thoughts. The reason for this, why the people of this world are lost, is because their thoughts are fundamentally confused. Their confused thoughts make it impossible to solve all their problems on their own.

The cause as to why everyone’s heart is void and formless is the absence the Word of Jesus in his heart. Put differently, it is because people failed to keep God’s Word of Truth in their hearts that their minds became void and confused. Emptiness prevails in their hearts precisely because their hearts cannot be dwelt by the Lord, who has given them the remission of their sins.

In today’s Scripture passage, “darkness” refers to mankind’s sin. It refers to the condition where one remains unwashed from his sins, from his failure to properly grasp the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. For everyone whose sins remain intact, it is precisely because he does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Therefore, everyone must realize and believe according to the will of God that the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit is the Truth. However, as many people still do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, sin continues to exist in their hearts even to this day. This is because they do not realize the fact that God is the Lord who created the heavens and the earth, the entire universe and all things in it, and that Jesus has blotted out all their sins. Yet even now, most people only assert their own good deeds and do not recognize the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The Bible says that such people, seeking to establish their own righteousness, do not submit to the righteousness of God (Romans 10:2-3).

What happens to the hearts of such sinners then? As their hearts remain sinful, they are plagued by confusion, not knowing what God’s Truth of salvation is. For all those who have not accepted the Word of God exactly as it is, they must study and realize properly what the Truth of the water and the Spirit is. Anyone who does not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit revealed in the Word of God is filled with his or her own thoughts of confusion. It is such people who are sinners before God.

As mentioned, the “earth” in today’s Scripture passage refers to the human heart. That the earth (one’s heart) was without form and void implies that our sins before God prevent us from meeting the Lord, and as a result, our hearts are beset by confusion and emptiness. In other words, confusion came to people’s minds when they drifted away from God and slipped away from the Truth of the water, the blood, and the Spirit, not believing in God’s true Word of salvation. My fellow believers, unless one believes in God as His Savior, who created the heavens and the earth, he cannot know the real Truth. And it is when one has no knowledge of the Truth of God that he is plagued by confusion. He can’t realize who created everything in this world, and who God is. Countless people have fallen into such confusion, not knowing whether a rock, the sun, the moon, a big tree, or an elephant is God. That is why God, referring to the condition of the hearts of the sinful, is saying, “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.”

When people do not acknowledge the Word of God in their hearts, they are beset by confusion. When people do not truly realize that the God who created all things is none other than Jesus Christ; that Jesus came to this earth incarnated in the flesh of man; that He took upon all the sins of mankind once for all through the baptism He received from John the Baptism; that He shed His precious blood on the Cross; and that He rose from the dead again and ascended to Heaven, they are all bound to live their entire lifetime imprisoned in confusion, void, and darkness. That is why so many people are unable to be saved from their sins, forever wandering in confusion, void, and darkness.

My fellow believers, Jesus Christ created the universe together with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Is this true or not? Of course it’s true. This means that Jesus Christ is the Master of the universe. Mankind’s sin is none other than drifting away from the God of Truth, neither believing in Jesus Christ as the Savior (John 16:9), nor believing in this Jesus who came by the gospel of the water and the Spirit with the heart. Isn’t it a sin for human beings not to believe in the Lord who created them as their Master, and not to recognize their original Master? Of course it is. In other words, it constitutes a sin when one does not believe in Jesus Christ as his Savior, and fails to believe that He has blotted out our sins with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. For one to drift away from Jesus Christ is the very sin that leads him to fall into destruction. This is the path that leads mankind to confusion. Those who drift away from God not believing in Him are lost, for they do not believe in the Word of Truth...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING

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