Is God Real and How Can I Know Him?

You were created for the purpose of having fellowship with God. But in order to establish a relationship with God, you must first get to know Him. The only way you can get to know him is through His Word, which is the Bible.

The Bible is the Word of God.  He dictated what He wanted to have written to a select group of men, who in turn wrote those words down for mankind to read.

“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Peter 1: 20-21.

          “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3: 16

So before you can begin to determine, in your own mind, if God is real or not you must go to the source, God’s own words – the Bible. “But there are many Bibles, you say, “how can I be certain if the Christian Bible, the Jewish Bible (which is the Old Testament of a Christian Bible) or the Muslim Bible is the real one?”  Answer: the one that is real is the one that is living. It speaks to you as you seek answers. But there is only one that will point you to the living and true God and His complete revelation for mankind. We believe that the Christian Bible is the only living Word of God.

 There are many translations of the Christian Bible, these translations will be many lessons in itself, but for now we will suggest you will be better prepared to follow this teaching if you use a King James Bible, not to be confused with the New King James.

In the Bible you will find:

• God’s plan for all mankind

• The righteousness of God

• The requirements for membership in the Family of God

• The obstacles to a close relationship with God

• That there is life after death

• Where you will reside after you die

In your search for finding God, we will assume that:

• You first have a desire,

• And that you are seeking to know the truth

If that is the case, I want you to read John 8: 32: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” If you really seek truth, you will find that freedom comes from the Lord Jesus Christ, who is truth.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14: 6. 

The Truth that will make you free is none other than Jesus Christ.  So, in order to know truth, you must believe in “The Truth,” which is the Lord Jesus Christ, Who was with God in the very beginning of time. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made…and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth” John 1: 1-3, 14.

There is a barrier (wall) that prevents most people from finding truth, or getting to know God.  That barrier is known as “sin.”  In the Book of Romans we find that our sin has separated us from God.

          Romans 3: 23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” To come short is to fail to attain what God requires for fellowship. It is to be lacking in something. That something is a Savior, someone to pay the debt for my sin.