H. from Casablanca writes:
Hello,
I was starting to read a bit of the gospel and it says there are 4 versions; are they all valid or is there only one on which we can rely? if so, tell me which one.
Our response:
First we must say that we believe the entire Bible is the Word of God. God inspired it. God inspired people to write his words - four men - including Matthew, Mark, Luke & John wrote their memories of his life. These four books tell different stories, various events and sometimes the same event in Jesus' life (as for example four journalists can tell such a situation in their different ways).
Christians have kept with all veneration and care for almost 2000 years these Scriptures. The main message of the Bible is the Gospel = The Good News - see more passages of Scripture on the page www.hiwarmaroc.com/Hiwarevangile.htm
We Christians often say "the four Gospels" because we refer to these books as 'Gospels'. In fact we should say 'The Gospel according to Matthew', 'The Gospel according to Luke' etc.
There are no contradictions between these four books. |
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Each month I present a reason why I believe in Jesus:
Credibility of its founder:
Jesus declared that he had come to fulfill the prophecies predicted about him and to die for people's sins in order to bring those who believed in him to God the Father.
According to human logic then, he is either a liar, a myth or he is telling the truth and he is Lord of heaven and earth.
How to know the truth? We must return to the testimonies of his disciples, those who had accompanied him and shared his life in the first century; those who had seen him walk on water, calm the storm with a word from his mouth, heal the sick and feed more than five thousand people until they were satisfied, and this from just five loaves and two fish; those who had seen him raise the dead and live a pure and sinless life; those who had seen him suffer and be insulted in silence without saying a single word and then die an atrocious death on the cross; those who had witnessed his resurrection on the third day of his death as he himself had predicted. These same witnesses could with certainty answer him: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." when he was abandoned by many of his disciples and when he gave the twelve a choice saying:"Do you also want to go away?" Gospel according to John 6:67-69,
The Bible
Mohamed
I want to read this page in Arabic |
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