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Hello Everyone,
I'm so excited to be able to reach out to you, as God has been doing many exciting things with DoubtLess Faith recently. One of our new initiatives is to start reaching out to our supporters more often with encouraging words from what we've been studying and updates on what God has been doing. I realize many of you receive lots of emails and so we are going to try and keep these short and sweet. :)
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Have you ever wondered why there are so many names and ages in the Bible, especially Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew? After describing what happened with Cain and Abel, Genesis 4 picks up with the lineage of Cain and is followed by the lineage of Adam and Eve’s third son Seth down to Noah, in chapter 5. Most of the time we skip over these chapters thinking they don’t provide much value to our understanding of God, but if we take a step back, we see an amazing attribute of God.
The God of the Bible is God of the details. Many world religions have stories about their founders. They provide events and occasionally circumstances, but when reading them it is hard to place them within the timeline or framework of human history. This is not the case with Christianity. These were real people, in real circumstances, interacting with a real God, at a real point in history. By including the specific details like the lineages and ages found in Genesis 4, 5, 10 and 11, as well as the specific measurements of the ark that Noah built in Genesis 6 and 7, the authors were just recording what happened.
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The parts of scripture that we sometimes overlook as boring or irrelevant are actually some of the most
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exciting because they point to the reality of God and the credibility of His word!
God in His infinite knowledge knew that we in the 21st century would struggle with questions about the reliability of His word and so He had the original authors include tiny details that we could validate and authentic, showing His word to be true. But it also means that the details are important to God. He knows every individual by name and every detail of each person’s life specifically. Although the stories of the lives of these individuals is not preserved for us, God makes clear He knew them and they were a part of His plan, by remembering them to us for all of human history in His word.
You too are known by God. He knows not only your name, but all the details of your life and the desires of your heart. He wants to be intimately involved in your life like He was with the men whose stories He preserved in Scripture. Are you letting Him? Are you allowing God to be the God of all the details of your life or are you being selective in the parts you open up to Him?
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