Many claim to believe in Jesus or to be Christians. Yet many times people believe in a Jesus of personal or popular imagination. The real Jesus - the one who died and rose again historically and actually lives today, is the Jesus revealed in the pages of the Bible. Any other Jesus is a false one. The Bible declares, "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8). The clearest picture of Jesus we can have is not some paint on the wall of a church building, but the picture we see of his life, mission and teaching as revealed in the New Testament. Unlike church traditions, the New Testament has not changed. Any form Christianity based on changing traditions and not on the teachings of Jesus recorded in the New Testament is a false Christianity. It does not matter for how many hundreds of years it has been in existence. The Pharisees also could point to a tradition going back hundreds of years. But Jesus said to them that they were "making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down." (Mark 7:13).

The Authority of the Bible

Authority and author are directly related concepts. Because the Holy Spirit (who is God) is the author of the Bible, the authority of the Bible is the authority of God. That means, when the Bible speaks to us then God is speaking to us. To disobey the New Testament is to disobey God.

Jesus said, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." (John 14:23)

"He who rejects Me, and does not receive my words, has that which judges him - the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day." (John 12:48). The Word has authority to judge and will judge on

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