{"id":7768,"date":"2025-12-19T07:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:12:43","slug":"did-god-really-say-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7768","title":{"rendered":"DID GOD REALLY SAY ENOUGH ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bible is enough.<br>It tells us what we need to know.<br>It does not tell us what we don&#8217;t need to know.<br>We don&#8217;t need to speculate&#8212;we dare not speculate&#8212;about what the Bible does not tell us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apply this to everything else.<br>Read the Bible for what we must know about . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>origins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>salvation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>end times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>heaven<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>hell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>any doctrine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider:<br>&#8220;Did God really say ?&#8221;<br>That trick worked the first time in the garden&#8212;it tricked Eve and Adam.<br>That same trick works over and over ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider this also:<br>Did God really not say ?<br>Ask both questions whenever dealing with any issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s wise, it&#8217;s essential to be a strict, purist, literalist follower of Jesus with what He tells us in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing question:<br>Does not the Bible clearly and unmistakably give direction for our lives&#8212;more than enough to keep us busy obeying what He says&#8212;Jesus, The Word ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible is enough.It tells us what we need to know.It does not tell us what we don&#8217;t need to know.We don&#8217;t need to speculate&#8212;we dare not speculate&#8212;about what the Bible does not tell us. Apply this to everything else.Read the Bible for what we must know about . . . Consider:&#8220;Did God really say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}