The Most Important Reason The Bible Is Important

It is about Jesus.

The clearest, most accurate communication about God is Jesus himself. And the Bible is the only place that has the most historically accurate information about Jesus. The Gospels are the best books about Jesus ever written, collecting together eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ life and teaching. The rest of the New Testament considers the basic implications of Jesus to those who follow Him. And the Hebrew Scriptures are the very books Jesus quoted from, using it to definitively describe what God is like and what He wants from humanity. Jesus is still the most important person influencing the world today—perhaps in this last century more than ever! If we want to know about Him, about his most correct representation of God, then we need to go to the Bible.

Yes, there may be contradictions, but the most important aspects of Jesus are clearly communicated. Jesus teaches us about love and humanism and inclusion and all that is communicated clearly not just in the gospels, but in the whole of the New Testament. It talks about freedom from sin and oppression. It talks consistently about what is really good and rejects what is not really good, or only looks good. The fact that all institutional churches of all ages have rejected what is true in the New Testament doesn’t mean that it is any less true. The fact that theologians have rejected the true Jesus and his true teachings for the sake of their own security and worldly hopes doesn’t make Jesus less true or his philosophy less significant.

The New Testament is the most accurate statement about how we can relate to God ever written. There is history to be found there, and there is philosophical truth. But that’s not what it’s about. It is about being plugged into the greatest power of the universe.