Sitting in airports and on airplanes, you get to hear a lot of people tell stories. Most of the time they aren’t even talking to you, you just get to overhear the conversations of others. Sometimes they are on the phone and you only get to hear one side of the story. Other times you hear the stories being shared between two people that just met and they are telling about themselves or what they do.
I always wonder how much of the story is exaggerated to make it either more interesting or make the story teller come across in a better light. Very rarely will anyone ever tell a story to a stranger to make themselves look bad. That got me thinking about the stories in the Bible.
Many people believe the stories in the Old Testament are just fairy tales or fables. But the Bible makes sure that it shows all the people at their best and their worst. No one is spared from having their total lives on display: the good, the bad and the ugly. When stories are told in that way, it brings a higher level of truth to the story because we aren’t just given the “good” stuff.
We are told the sinful sides of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and a list of others. That allows us to believe that the stories are true and accurate; not fairy tales or fables. “Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” - 2 Peter 1:20-21.
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” - 2 Timothy 3:16-17. While the stories of man may be inflated with lies and exaggeration, the Word of God is truth.
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