CLOSER TO GOD: Step by Step Empowering Provisions. Beliefs. By Ben J. Theo: Step by Step Empowering Provisions. Beliefs.

By Ben J. Theo

This publication provides helpful directions to get closer to God through Jesus Christ!

A former atheist saved by God through Christ, Holy Spiritual author and mentor Ben J. Theo became extraordinarily empowered to draw closer to God from belief in Christ. He shares the transformative power of believing and testimony. Learn about his and other's super-natural empowerment and miraculous blessings!

Using the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscript words from which the common Holy Bible arose and dictionaries accessible to everyone, Seminary Professor Ben J. Theo uncovers deep definition for Biblical teaching that God's Holy Spirit provided to get closer to God through Jesus Christ.

Pastor Ben J. Theo has been a wonderful counselor and proven Holy Spirit authority for original Biblical Christianity predating Catholicism and Protestantism. He volunteers as Councilor Bishop for the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem in continuation from the Holy Bible's internal record and book of Acts. He is a Rabbinical Master of Biblical Theology, Ecclesiology, and Divinity teachings for the Lion of Judah Discipleship Journey Seminary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781716049330

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CHAPTER 1 PREFACE: The Supremacy of God's Recorded Words in the Holy Bible.

"If you live in me and my words live in you, you will ask what you desire (from God), and it shall be done for you." -- Jesus Christ the Son of God, from the Holy Bible at John 15:7.

The Holy Bible is from God's Holy Spirit and it is the supreme material authority for the Christian in matters of belief and teaching. Man or church outside the Holy Spirit and outside the Holy Bible's words for affirmation, is not.

In this publication I provide Holy Bible verses for you to see supreme material authority bearing witness from God yourself about teachings or beliefs.

Why?

Answer: No book in the world parallels the Holy Bible through all of mankind's history about God.

Here is brief support for this claim. For more, see the Appendices section entitled:

1. AP: THE SUPREMACY OF GOD'S RECORDED WORDS IN THE HOLY BIBLE.

FACTS

The Holy Bible embodies the oldest history writing still existing.--Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 1, page 13. Its content span from the ancient times when people wrote in Hebrew pictographs and cuneiform on moist clay tablets that dried into stone  (before 2500 B.C., Exodus 24:12), then later on plant pith papyri and animal skins [parchment] (2 Timothy 4:13), then on modern tree pith paper, and then on electronic devices and worldwide internet web.

From archaeology, Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details and brought increased recognition to the value of the Bible as a source of history.---The New Evidence that Demand's a Verdict (NEDV), by Josh McDowell, pg 61.

The Hebrew Bible has come down to us through the scrupulous care of ancient scribes who copied the original text in successive generations......There is more manuscript support for the New Testament [text integrity of the Bible] than for any other body of ancient literature.--- Preface, New King James Version of the Holy Bible. Bracketed words supplied for clarity.

Professor of history, Edwin Yamauchi, stated that we have more and better historical documentation for Jesus than for any other religious founder. NEDV, pg. 136

In ancient handwritten times when making copies of Holy Scripture, no letter of a word could be written from unaided memory. Numerical tabs and records were kept for every letter, syllable, word and paragraph for a Biblical manuscript and matching authentic copies. This was done by a special class of men...whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity----scribes...massoretes. NEDV, pg 9, 74

Presumed contradictory details pointed out by superficial literary critics about certain written events or accounts in the Bible are in fact supplementary details under closer examination. They are seen as contradictory only when inadequately interpreted without other details throughout the Bible and without understanding the Bible's early language. Accuracy of a religious book through history does not mean it was inspired by or came from God, as many non-religious books have great accuracy from antiquity. But unlike any other known ancient religious text, fulfilled prophecy in the Holy Bible is a strong indication of the unique Divine authority of the Bible. NEDV, pg13.

The Bible's New Testament (content, spanning c. 30-90 A.D.) reveals the Old Testament (content, spanning before 3000 B.C. to around 500 B.C.) contained over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus and his disciples years later to the present. NEDV pg 168. Details in parentheses is added to reveal factual magnitude.

Different prophets spaced over thousands of years made the numerous manuscripts and their contents collected into and called the Holy Bible (or Holy Scriptures) today. They foretold matters hundreds and thousands of years beforehand, with astounding accurate Divine quality and consistency. The Holy Scriptures comprise the most ancient, authentic, accurate, proven, and numerous prophets and their writings from God --- no other religious text or book on the planet has this substantial value from God, and the internal and external evidence for