What about some of the people in other countries who have never heard of Jesus, much less ever even seen or read a bible??
For those who haven't heard of Jesus or read the bible resembles me before I became a Christian. The weird thing with me is that we so happened to have a bible in our home. I don't know why.
I did read about a certain topic because someone told me that God didn't like and even hated divorce. Not even knowing the Lord yet, I was convicted.
Romans 1 says that all will be without excuse. There's a inner witness to the fact that there's a God which would lead them to truth and there's an out witness, the witness of creation that tells us there's a God.
To me, that's the whole point. God's word can come in many different ways, but none of them should be say one way is better than other while on this side of heaven.
I love the parables because Jesus took real circumstances of life like the seed and the sower to demonstrate truth to us.
And it's still ongoing through the power of the Holy Spirit. Just like the thread I posted about strawberry jam on the boys shirt. God spoke about sin through strawberry jam.
I believe the danger of what Kayla shared with this particular article and Maxwell being the great berean that he is shows us a way that satan works.
He takes a little bit of truth to try to get Christians to think that the bible isn't that important. The author of the article is devaluing the bible.
So what if people can be born again without the bible. But they can't be saved without the message that's written in the bible.
So let's not buy into the ridiculousness of this article. God's word is God's word. It comes to us through the written word, by the Holy Spirit, by creation itself. It's written, it's verbal, it's the quiet voice within. We can agree that they're all important.
And the point is they are all God breathed. God gave life to His word, but in all of the ways that God speaks, none will have any effect on a hard-hearted heart that rejects Him when they hear or read His word.
Hebrews 4:12,13
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.