[forum] Good News

[Good News]

1)Sept 2003: I was down Pittsburgh, and I heard a voice that said,"Good
News". It confused me, but I felt compeled to come home to my old church.
2)When I arrive home and held my dads hands inside the Church(he is grounds
keeper, and just so happened to be there), and profess to him and God my
love, he went up and brought me down a Bible, The Good News Bible.
3)I have never heard of this Bible before in my life, the "Good News" I was
spoken to is manifested in physical form.

I don't claim to be a prophet,but I fully know God exists as explained in
the bible.  I'm well educated, and I appreciate science.  But neither science,
nor other religions detract from the bible. If you read the bible, you'll
find truth.



If you still have time to read on, I'll explain one of many ways on how you
can discern the bible as truth.  The bible has prophesy.  No person or
belief system has predicted the future like the bible has, they have all proven to
be fakes.  

A) In 700BC the prophet Isaiah predicted the rebuilding of the temple in
Jerusalem by Cyrus.  Isaiah 44:28 At the time, the temple was not even
destroyed.  Later the temple is destroyed,and over a hundred years later it was
ordered to be rebuilt.  The man who decrees the temple to rebuilt is Cyrus the
Persian.

B) Isaiah also predicted Jesus Christ.  Read Isaiah 53.  It details Jesus'
life quite directly.  "We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering
and pain.  No one would even look at him- we ignored him as if he were
nothing.  But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that
we should have borne.  All the while we thought that his suffering was
punishment sent by God.  But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of
the evil we did.  We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by
the blows he recieved.  All of were like sheep that were lost, wach of us
going his own way.  But the Lord made the punishment fall on him, the punishment
all of us deserved.  He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly; he never
said a word.  Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be
sheared, he never said a word.  He was arrested and sentenced and led off to
die, and no one cared about his fate.  He was put to death for the sins of our
people.  He was placed in a grave with evil men, he was buried with the
rich, even though he had never commited a crime or ever told a lie." The Lord
says,"It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring
forgiveness.  And so he will see his descendants;  he will live a long life,
and through him my purpose will succeed.  After a life of suffering, he will
again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain.  My devoted
servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the pubishment of many and for his sake
I will forgive them.  And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among
great and powerful men. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of
evil men.  He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be
forgiven."
Seven hundred years before Jesus, his life was predicted by Isaiah speaking
as instructed by God.

C)The destruction of Tyre was prophesized by Daniel.

"They shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise;
and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and
they shall lay thy stones, thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the
water....I will make thee like the top of a rock; thou shalt be a place to spread
nets upon; thou shall be built no more....I shall bring up the deep upon thee,
and great waters shall cover thee." (Ezekiel 26:12, 14, 19)

This prophecey was made hundreds of years before it was fulfilled. The king
Nebuchadnezar first destroyed the city 600 years before Christ. Tyre
regained power by building a fortress city on an island off the cost of Lebanon,
within sight of the ruins of the original city of Tyre. A few hundred years
later Alexander the Great ordered his men to use the ruins of tyre to make a
bridge or causeway to the island fortress. Every scrap of the original city of
Tyre was dumped into the bay. That causeway can be seen to this day as a
witness to the fulfilled prophecey of Daniel.

Now these aren't the only prophesy that exist in the bible.  There are over
a thousand predictions in the bible.  All predictions come true 100%.

There are many other ways of explaining the truth that's in the bible.
Mainly I want people to know God does exist, and I want to get the truth out
ASAP.  I need to let people know now.  So take what you can from this message.  I
know people generally don't like spam, but spam is normally trying to scam
or sell you something.  This spam is awesome because its coming from my heart
that I want everyone possible to know God.  I wouldn't waste my time and
effort trying to contact people if I didn't have faith.  My faith comes straight
from God.  He didn't tell me to do anything, he just said,"Good News" and I
got a Good News bible that day.  Its expected of every good Christian to
spread the Good News to those who haven't heard, and to strengthen the faith of
fellow Christians.  Maybe this faith that came to me from God can be passed on
to you.  I guess part of it comes from how much you'd trust someone you don't
know.  Well for one, a Christian isn't supposed to lie, so I'd be breaking
my own faith by lying to you.  I'm sorry there's no way for you to contact me
if you have questions.  I haven't figured out the best way to handle
communication yet.  Besides, I can't really answer anything you can't find in the
bible.  Maybe you'll have to ask a priest or do research to understand what some
parts of the bible mean, I'm sorry that I can't help you there.  I don't
have the perfect message designed to help eveyone.  I'm just trying my best to
have a message that will explain that you should definately read the bible to
understand about Lord Jesus.