Do you consider little details of the Bible to be unimportant? Sometimes by knowing these things we see which preachers are antichrist so we can avoid them and save ourselves from such. This is really critical to us!
Also we can often identify counterfeit Christians when that person says they are Christian but they don't care what Bible says and they consider it really doesn't matter.
I was engaged to a man who said he was a Christian but he showed he didn't think details in Bible mattered. I was saved from what would have been a very bad marriage with a false Christian. It ended up he got some of his Bible training from movie director Cecil B. DE Milles' movies, and the information was false, and Howard didn't care that it was contrary to Bible. A marriage to him would have been disastrous for me.
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Howard and I had gone from Texas to visit my cousin in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA).
Donna Faye and her husband had gone to pick up something and Howard and I were left at her house. We began talking and I mentioned God killing Pharaoh and his men in the Red Sea.
Howard responded that Pharaoh wasn't killed because the movie, The Ten Commandments, showed Pharaoh on the banks of the Red Sea when the water covered his men.
I told Howard that is not what the Bible says.
Howard said, "It really doesn't matter."
But truth from Bible matters to me!
We had gone to Albuquerque in my car and I remembered that I had a Bible in the back seat pocket of my car. So I went out to car and got the Bible and read this passage from Exodus 14 & Exodus 15 to Howard.
Exodus 14
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he (Pharaoh) made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
Exodus 14
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he (Pharaoh) made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
Exodus 15
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath HE (God) cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath HE (God) cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
After reading this from Bible, I asked Howard what he thought and he replied he thought Pharaoh was killed in the Red Sea ... But I knew Bible really didn't matter to Howard.
A month before the wedding, I said something that offended Howard and he broke up with me.
Later I came to be so glad I didn't marry Howard. Sometimes things are not very clear at the time they are happening.
Pam Padgett was engaged and when she shared a scripture with her future husband, he no longer wanted to marry Pam.
Pam and I were both spared in-spite-of ourselves!
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Acts 17:11 These (the Bereans) were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word (spoken by Paul) with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
(They checked those things the apostle Paul spoke to them.)
They cared about scripture.
Acts 17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
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Pam Padgett was in a singles class at the church she was attending. A divorced woman was planning to marry a man from that class. Pam showed her scripture and told her the Bible says if a divorced woman remarried, she would commit adultery according to Bible.
Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
I Corinthians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Romans 7:1-3 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Mark 10:11-12 And HE (Jesus) saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
This woman said she didn't care what the Bible said. Pam was very shocked that a Christian wouldn't care what the Bible says.
Pam also told this man he would commit adultery according to Bible if he married this divorced woman.
He said, "I'll think about it." (but he went ahead with the wedding which was performed by the pastor at that church.)
Pam also told the woman from the singles class who was going to be maid of honor, that these people would both commit adultery if they married. The woman said she knew it would be adultery but they would marry anyway so she said she was going to go ahead any way and be maid of honor.
Bible says: Neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. I Timothy 5:22
Many church people don't care what the Bible says.
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Jesus says:
John 14:6 I (The Word) am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (The Word).
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Beware of casting aside the Bible, for to do this is to be "antichrist".
II Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(Churches would "fall away" from scripture ... the end time apostasy in the churches. NASB)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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Do not be deceived by those persons who say they are Christians while they show they do not care about the Bible, Jesus, the Word.
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