"Have an open mind"
Q: What do you say when someone says:
"Read John 21:25. I have an open mind and believe that there is more outside of the Holy Bible that talks about Jesus Christ being the Son of God".
A: um...Whats the point being made here?
1. Is this saying(?):
"Read John 21:25, have an open mind and believe that there is more outside of the Holy Bible that talks about Jesus Christ being the Son of God".
If so... Is it a demonic spirit, thru a cult member or quasi Christian religion member, twisting sth to get you to believe there's more about God or Jesus outside Scripture today, that they claim to know about (as if we dont have all God gave us)? Or an attempt to try to further guide a convo to decieve you about so called missing OT books?
2. Is it asking you to realize in general there's non Christian early historical references to Jesus too, that we can and should believe.
Well..
A. If you mean there's more from God:
No. God has given us the Holy Word; 66 books of the Bible. He told us what he wants us to know about God, creation, perfection, the fall, how to be saved & live godly, and about eternity. It is complete. John closed canon.
1. Deut 4:2
You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
2. Rev 22:18 "For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
God did (thru John) intend👆 to mean Revelation and The entire Scriptures. There's nothing else; God has told us all we need to know. And He was clear about all what he revealed to us about Jesus- the Son of God.
B. If you mean "there's more than" what early history records?
No, but:
> Apostles and Israeli people heard and saw other things (not needed to be in the NT, per the verse op quoted). But not something else "missing" from the Bible about Him as Son of God. God would've told us and it would be in those 66 books.
>Historians and rulers wrote about him. Josephus the Jewish historian wrote about the resurrected Christ, prior to John writing Revelation. But that didnt say more than what God aleady revealed in the 66 books; of The Word of God.
[Also, we have enough of the Apostles 'disciples' writings to confirm there's nothing missing].
C. Beyond that... anything claimed to be of Scripture, claimed by a new word, new revelation, or "new book", or even info from a version of Jesus "altered" by world religions [which they added to their teachings (to decieve people)] are not words of God nor true. - As noted above in #1.
Trying to get people to "open their mind" beyond what God has said, claiming theres more you dont know about but OP does... is straight up false teaching. It's like Satan in the Garden trying to decieve again.
Reject it and all lying spirits.
Trust God.
He gave us the complete Scriptures, and He is all poweful; able to preserve it, just as history shows He did.
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