"Believe" is posted all over the decorations and advertisements each Christmas Season. However, I want to pose a few simple but logical questions. What are we to "believe" or whom are we to "believe"? Is this an endorsement of "Faith in Faith" or a motivational technique for positive thinking? Must we "believe" everything everyone else "believes"? Does merely "believing" something is true make it truth? NO! Belief must have an object to trust which is grounded in the truth. Belief and believe are very important words in the Bible. In the King James Version of the Bible, "Believe" is found 124 times in New Testament and" Faith 245 times". We are not told to just "believe", but are told to belief the testimony of the Word of God (Romans 10:17). We are challenged to believe the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles concerning the life and works of Jesus Christ. I believe in the truth of Christmas as it is presented in the Bible. I believe the baby born 2,000 years ago is the Messiah (Luke 2:1-20)! I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came from heaven on a mission to reveal the love of God by satisfying the righteous demands of God by glorifying His wisdom of making possible grace by His death on the cross and rescuing us from the power and penalty of sin through His redemptive and vicarious death and resurrection (Romans 3:21-26). Christmas is more than "believing" in something or someone. Christmas is the joyful celebrating belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ is excluded then Christmas becomes the "Holidays". I am not politically correct but I am biblically correct ! Let me ask you a few questions. First, what do you believe? Second, why do you believe it? And Finally, what difference does it make in your life? There are all types of belief held by people some which can be labeled as superstitions, urban myths and hypothetical hypostasis. The birth of Jesus Christ is grounded in history and His life is one of the most documented lives in history. Evidence abounds that the testimony of Scripture concerning the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is fact, not fable! Jesus Christ's impact upon the Apostles was so powerful that they refused to change their testimony and they authenticated it by their martyrdom. The goal of their recorded testimony to Jesus Christ can be summed up in the words of the Apostle John, "and truly Jesus did other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name" (John20:30-31). I believe! I believe Jesus Christ is the Savior! Do you "believe" or do you believe in Jesus Christ?
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