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Testimonials - Alan
My parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were Christians, so I was brought up in a strongly Christian atmosphere and as a child of seven I trusted the Lord Jesus as my Saviour. Sunday School and the Crusaders' Bible Class taught me more about God's love for us and the Christian way of living, leading me to realise the need to declare my faith clearly, and so at seventeen I was baptized. Various circumstances and the advice of a particular friend guided me to study languages of the Bible and whatever could be discovered about its world. Those studies have filled much of my time ever since.

People often attack the Bible, they'll tell you it is unscientific, it is out of date, it is untrue. Often the arguments seem to be very strong and it is tempting to agree, but that would mean the Bible is no better than any other book. Yet again and again I find there is evidence available to refute those accusations. For example, the Bible says king Solomon plated
the inside of the temple he built in Jerusalem with gold. `That's incredible,' said the scholars, perhaps there was a little gold and people exaggerated it over the generations. When I investigated, my research showed that ancient kings did decorate temples as the Bible says Solomon did. The Bible is more than a good history book, it is about human beings and God's love for them. There are thousands of ancient documents written by men and women in past millennia and reading them shows me people are still the same. Even though the Bible is a very old book, it deals with the same basic human problems we meet today, so it is not out-of-date, it is relevant and trustworthy.

That same Bible tells us the story of a God who loved us so much that he sent His Son, Jesus so that the relationship he first had with us when he created us could be re-established. To do that Jesus had to die a horrible death. Man's inhumanity to man is not a social or environmental disease, but a result of the greed, the lust and the pure evil that so easily ensnares those who do not love what is true and right. I hope you found these stores showed that God's people are ordinary people from all walks of life. Many would like to portray us all as hypocrites and cranks, but we let Jesus' words speak for us in our actions, "They shall know you by the love you have for one another."

Wouldn't that be a wonderful world to live in? The goal of every true Christian is to make it so, and the certainty of every Christian is the good news that one day Jesus will return and bring our desire to fulfillment.

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