I Am Not Afraid of the NKJV

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 From here on out i will never obsess or doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God.  It is the Truth.  No question about it.  i'm a Christian and i'm a believer;  i know Jesus is the Son of God; in fact, the Bible makes it clear that Jesus is God.  He was crucified to pay for our sins and He rose after three days after releasing the saints of the Old Testament when He descended into Hell.  Satan and his demons are real and are not figments of our imagination.  i can say that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, and i don't concern myself with all the debates with non-believers who are too lazy to read it.   

i think it's time to share the ideas of all the marvelous books and authors i've read over these past few months.  Authors like Bart D. Ehrman, who wrote Misquoting Jesus:  [page 7] What good does it do to say that the words are inspired by God if most people have absolutely no access to these words, but only to more or less clumsy renderings of those words into a language that has nothing to do with the original words?  How can we say that the Bible is an inerrant word of God if we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired?

To me, that's not the issue.  i have the NKJV of the Bible and that's all i need.  i am not afraid of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Shall i begin to sing?  i'm not about to go about obsessing over not knowing what the original words of the Bible actually were. -[p. 14]  As long as i know that i have received the reconciliation for my sins, that's all i need and the NKJV of the Bible supports that; and, besides Jesus, that's all i need.  i shall try to continue to be most gracious when i am giving.  God loves me and He is most gracious when He is giving.

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