Expert: Mr. McClellan - 2/1/2008

Question
QUESTION: You think you are the right person because of your education? I fill that you still didn't answer the question on missing verses. Please explain

ANSWER: Hello Micahel,
If you mean my formal education, then the answer is no. I am the right person because I know how to discover and to know the truth with real certainty. I am not guessing.
Now, the "missing" verses. Over the centuries, a few "minor" changes in the text of what is called the Bible have taken place. None of those changes affected the meaning of what can be determined to have been the original intended meaning. Generally, such changes were mere attempts to amplify for the sake of clarity, etc. Later scholars have attempted to restore the exact original texts and took out those that they had good reason to believe were not actual parts of the original.
Now, in asking this kind of question and by other things that you have said it is clear that you are concerned about things that are quite inconsequential when it comes to determining what the truth is. For example, are you aware that the question about whether or not God exists is an ignorant question? The question that people should be seeking the answer to is, "Which, if any, of the Gods worshipped by humans is the one that created the universe?" Everyone cannot be right, but everyone could be wrong. How can this be determined with certainty? I know, but do you? And, if the God that created it all has requirements for humans, how can a person know for certain what they are? It is certain that a truly just God could not punish people if they cannot know these things beyond any doubt. Guessing will not do and to say that we just have to accept on faith is to make a big mistake about the meaning of faith. Faith that is pleasing to God cannot be the same as prejudice the way most people think. Real faith is based on evidence that a person may deny but cannot refute on any legitimate basis.
Sincerely,
Mr. McClellan

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QUESTION: Thank you. Mr. McClellan

Plesae enlighten me.(For example, are you aware that the question about whether or not God exists is an ignorant question? The question that people should be seeking the answer to is, "Which, if any, of the Gods worshipped by humans is the one that created the universe?" Everyone cannot be right, but everyone could be wrong. How can this be determined with certainty? I know, but do you?)

I guess I need to ask another question.
Do you belive that the Christain Bible is the inspired word of God writen by men, and is the only way to understand what God is and His purpous for us?
What God do you believe is the right God to worship, and do you belive in a Messiah(Jesus)?
Please don't think that I'm closed minded but just interested in what you think.

Sincerely,
Mr. Little

Thank you for you Time.

ANSWER: Hello Michael,
The Bible was inspired by God and it was written by men. This is a fact, not a guess. It is the only way to learn about Jesus but it is not the only way to know about God nor what his will for humans is. Those things are revealed in what exists. Read Romans chapter 1. The right God to worship is the one that created all things. All of us are subject to that God but few consciously acknowledge that God because most people do not know how to recognize that God. When you ask what I "think," are you asking me for a prejudiced opinion, a personal bias, or are you asking what I know and can prove is true? I know this, that I can only point out the way to discover the truth. After that, you will have to do the work of discovering it yourself, otherwise it will be of no value to you at all. It's the only way that you can "know" what the truth is. It's the only way you will ever be able to have a legitimate faith rather than a mere prejudice no different from the prejudices held by the Jews Jesus condemned for illigitimately thinking themselves to be so wise and learned.They could not see or understand the real truth for their determination to deny the obvious in favor of their mistaken and preconceived ideas.
Here's what you should do if you are serious. You should first decide that knowing the real truth is more important to you than the air you breathe. It has to be so important that you will be ready to instantly give up any prejudices you hold as soon as you discover that you are mistaken and you must work as you have never worked before to look for your prejudices as you study. You must re-read the Bible many times considering the real possibility that you have misunderstandings. You do not need to be an expert in Biblical languages to do this. You need to carefully study the concept of justice just as it is described and demonstrated in the Bible. You must re-think the meaning of faith and learn to understand it with the same meaning that the writers of the Bible used when they spoke of the kind that is pleasing to God. Virtually everyone today uses the idea of faith that was used by idol worshippers and was not pleasing to God. There are just a few other things that you must do, but I will let these be enough for now because what I have given you to do is going to require a lot of work and time. Your current prejudices are going to get in the way a lot and be difficult to cast aside because what you are going to discover is going to be so different from what you currently think you know. No matter what anyone says, you can actually know the truth, and it will make you free though you will be persecuted if you tell others what you discover. People do not want to be sure of the truth because it would mean that they are without an excuse. Neither do they want anyone telling them that the truth can be known with absolute certainty, they will hate you and make fun of you for that. They have eyes, but they refuse to see, they have ears, but they do not want to hear lest they see and hear the real truth and have to confront their own self deceit and hypocrisy. (Jesus paraphrased.)
Sincerely,
Mr. McClellan

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QUESTION: Mr. McClellan
Thank you for your insight.
For me the God I worship is the God Of Israel.
Ans Jesus is our (my) Messiah.
And you are right I have alot to learn.
again thank you. You are very sincere and seem to be a wise
person.

Thank you

Answer
Michael,
When I was only twelve years old, I realized that it was not possible for people to have different ideas about what the Bible says and all of them be right. I realized that there were only two possibilities. Only one can be right or everyone is wrong. I realized that if it is not possible to know with absolute certainty that God exits and with the same certainty know what the will of God is, then God cannot be just (fair) when he punnishes people, or threatens to punnish them, for not obeying him. It would not be just, or fair, to make people have to guess at the truth and then punnish them if they guessed wrong. I heard some people say that God does not exist, I heard some say that we just can't know one way or the other, and I heard some say that God does exist but no one could prove that what they said was true. I recognized, even then, that if God exists and is truly a just God, that he would have to make himself known in such a way that everyone could recognize him without mistake and that if he had requirements for humans that he had to make them knowable to everyone so that they could understand them without mistake. I realized that everyone, all of the "experts," the great scientists, philosophers, and Bible scholars had to be making mistakes in how they tried to determine the truth, so I determined to dedicate my life to discovering how to do it so that we could dispense with the guessing and know the truth about these things with absolute certainty. I read all the things written by great scientists, philosophers, and Bible scholars. And, I attended many public debates between athiests and Bible scholars as well as debates between Bible scholars. I went to a very fine Bible college, I wore out several Bibles and memorized large portions of them in different versions, and I spent years teaching and lecturing on what I learned. After years of intense searching, I finally discovered that the real truth is quite simple to know and understand but all the false ideas we pick up early in life, ideas that most people fail to realize are false (In other words, prejudices that they have accepted as the truth) blind them to the real truth so that it is virtually impossible for them to understand it even when it is right in front of them. There came a time, after all my effort, that I realized that the truth was never hidden at all and that it is really easy to know but I could not have discovered it without doing all that work. No one can. The truth has not been hidden from us, we have hidden it from ourselves. Today, the old Greek philosophy of Sophism is in control of the minds of people. It says that know one can know the truth, that everything is relative, that there is no such thing as right and wrong except as we determine it for ourselves. We are our own gods is what it says, and that might makes right. Well, it is true that some things are relative, but not everything.
Now, I am going to recommend that you take a long and careful look into what justice is and what it requires. After all, the Bible says that God is perfectly just and that he requires humans to be imitators of him and to practice true justice too. The Bible is filled with examples of justice and injustice, so this should be fairly easy to figure out.
Next, very carefully read what the Bible writers said about faith and that there are two kinds. One is pleasing to God and the other is not. Pay careful attention to what true faith requires and that it is not mere inactive intellectual belief or trust, that effort (work) is an absolute requirement or else it is just hypocrisy.
Next, carefully study what the meaning of sin is and that it is not based on a person's actions but rather the motives for their actions.
Next, carefully examine the "miracles" in the Bible all the way from Genesis to Revelation. Carefully note their descriptions and what there purpose was.
Next, carefully, very carefully, read the gospel accounts of Jesus, the book of Acts, Romans, well... all of the New Testament. Pay close attention to Matthew 16-24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, and then other New Testament passages on the return of Jesus. Include the book of Revelation, chaps 1-3, and 22 especially. Oh yes, at this point, be careful to read the book of Daniel too.
Everytime Jeuse is asked how to have eternal life, or to get into the kingdom of God, or get forgiveness, etc, pay careful attention to his answer.
Now, I have pointed out to you the direction to the truth. If you are sincere enough and work hard enough, you will find it and when you find it, you will know for certain. You will not have to guess about it anymore. However, get ready to be persecuted, ridiculed, and made fun of when you try to tell people what you found.
Sincerely,
Mr. McClellan