those who serve must serve with strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever Amen.
1 Peter 4 : 11
History, biography, and fiction do not gives a true photograph of man; they are records of men as seen by their fellows, but the inner man is not fully made great strides in recent years, but the camera does not reveal "the hidden man of the heart." There are secret within which neither friend nor enemy can fully discover. In fact, man is not fully acquainted with himself. Only in the Bible does a man see himself with every secret thing exposed to the eyes of Omniscience. Nothing is hidden from the searchlight of the Bible. It brings the holiest of men to self-debasement. Great soul like Moses, David, Habakkuk, Daniel, John, and Paul are stripped of every vestige of self a righteousness in the presence of the revealing light of Scripture.
In Bible photography nothing is touched up. Blemishes are not removed but revealed. The writer of the Bible do not escape the exposure of their own sins. The divine Photographer does not "touch up" these men and omit the records of their shortcomings. It is recorded of Noah that he got drunk, that Abraham told a lie, that Moses lost his temper, that David committed murder and adultery, that Peter and swore, and that Paul quarrelled with his best friend. Had men written the records of such lofty characters, their faults would not have been recorded.
It is this supernatural power in the Bible that convicts men of sin, compelling them to cry out, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." The sacred books of the ancient religious have no such power.
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