Truth of Our Faith

Since the day Jesus died on the cross, the religious world has been searching for the true meaning of His life. Revealed were stories and events of remarkable historical accuracy adding credibility to the Bibles content. Years of careful study and translations have brought more questions than answers regarding Jesus’ mission. The one question that has eluded and plagued Christians since that infamous day is did Jesus get His message out before rising to His father or did He take with Him more of what we needed to know? For years after His death Jesus’ disciples carried on His message and continued witnessing despite the overwhelming fear of both persecution and death. What they were spreading was a divine message to lead us to the Kingdom of Heaven. Since then scholars, bishops, apostles, and scribes have dissected His known life and have read, rewritten and reinterpreted the scriptures to suit their overwhelming desire to understand His message. In a desperate attempt to interpret Jesus’ life and message, churches have split and Bibles have been revised. Within the last one hundred years alone, the Bible has been updated with more new versions to accommodate today’s culture and society. With each new division of faith and Bible version the message of Jesus has been distorted, altered and possibly concealed. In order to sort this out, we must start from the beginning to understand how it all began. The source of all Christian questions has come from the Bible, which ironically should be the source of all the answers. All the knowledge we have acquired about Jesus and His stories of divinity has come from the Bible. As practicing Christians our lives are based on the teachings found within the Bible. Such an important book, the basic foundation of Christian belief should be rock solid. But how exactly did this book come to be, and what problems exist to support the accuracy of the translation?