In searching for truth, one is obligated to do the following: to think, to respect evidence, to accept what evidence says or implies, no matter how it contradicts one’s belief. For one’s need to believe or not, there are these corresponding obligations. That means non-thinkers are not excused from simply labelling one thing or the other – an easy way out for refusing to use one’s brain.
Lazy non-thinkers are fast in labelling things they do not understand as fiction. The Bible is fiction to atheists. But what does the Bible say?
The words of God in the Bible are words of truth.
PSALMS 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
The sum of His words is the truth.
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PSALMS 119:160
The sum of thy word is truth; and every one of thy righteous ordinances endures forever.
The words of God are powerful that they sanctify a believer.
JOHN 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
In following God’s laws, a man can be made holy.
THE ROMANS 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Transgressing the commandments or disobeying God’s words produce sin and evil.
I JOHN 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
The dictionary defines “fiction” as not real, but imaginary, theoretical, an invention. Calling the Bible fiction because it does not mean anything to someone, does not make it fiction – anymore than when a librarian places it in the Fiction counter. Some people label austere matters in the negative in their efforts to dismiss them as nonsense.
Here are some tweets as a response to my blogs on atheism –
To say the least that the Bible is a book of fiction is tantamount to saying that it is fiction to love a wife or a husband. Here are injunctions of the Bible –
EPHESIANS 5:25, 28
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
It will also be fiction to be faithful to a wife or a husband.
MALACHI 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
At creation, God made in the beginning only one man to have only one wife to preserve a godly seed that will always obey the will of their Creator, teaching them not to deal treacherously with each other. This union He pronounced to be a life-long union.
MATTHEW 19:4-6
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh
6 Therefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
THE ROMANS 7:2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So, is being faithful to each other fiction?
HEBREWS 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Imagine the evil that would result in regarding these pronouncements as fiction!
Love your neighbor as yourself. Fiction?
Honor your father and your mother. Fiction?
Is this hearsay?
MATTHEW 5:42
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
What about injunctions for keeping the environment safe when one responds to the call of nature? Fiction?
DEUTERONOMY 23:13
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: – fiction?
This commandment is an exact knowledge where modern communities got the idea of constructing septic tanks and proper sewage systems.
What about practicing a good conscience towards God and fellowman? Fiction?
THE ACTS 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.
Disregard all these words of God like the commandments, “thou shall not kill,” “thou shall not covet,” “thou shall not steal,” “thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour,” and many more, and it will make you an atheist over time. It will give you freedom to do all things contrary to these morals and goodness! This will result in evil everywhere; accidents will happen; violence will erupt like the BIG BAAAANNNNGGGG!
Who originated the idea that God does not exist?
PSALMS 53:1-3
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Every one of those who refuse to believe in the existence of God got that idea from their want of freedom to do evil! This is the same idea I read on buses in London.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/ni/2009/12/top_ten_religion_stories_of_th.html, 31 December 2009 –
Atheism on the buses. Ads reading “There’s probably no God” appeared on buses across the country after the Atheist Bus Campaign raised more than £140,000 to counter Christian advertisements on London buses. Christian campaigners complained, unsuccessfully, to the Advertising Standards Authority, and Ron Heather, a Christian bus driver in Southampton, refused to drive any bus bearing the ads.
More than all of these, God is a God of order.
I CORINTHIANS 14:33, 40
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
He set order and ordinance in the universe.
JOB 38:33
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Order can be observed within the unfathomable reaches of the universe!
Can order be attained in an accident like the big bang? Never!
Science and wisdom is inherent in nature. Man’s knowledge in science is a result of the discovery of such wisdom through systematic observation and experimentation. Time and again we are witnesses to the fact that mathematically and scientifically, an accepted truth in man’s limited knowledge in science may vary even to the point where one contention denies the other. No scientist with his understanding of the vastness of science will say that what he knows about everything that exists is complete enough to conclude that he is 100% right in every aspect. Only the atheists do this – in all their arrogance and careless ignorance!
True enough, the Bible tells us exactly so!
ECCLESIASTES 8:17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
We may know a part of God’s work or an area in the vast domain of His power and wisdom but not all! It is a challenge written in the word of God which up to now is still stands uncontested! The truth is, no atheist can claim monopoly over science which is only a small fraction of God’s wisdom!
The problem with atheists is that they pride themselves as possessing some wisdom that others do not have.
I CORINTHIANS 3:18
Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.
This is my advice to an atheist. May God bless you. Keep in touch for more to come.
Sincerely yours,
Brother Eli
Bravo, Brother Eli! I couldn't agree more with your points.
FORGIVE THEM (the ATHEIST) o Lord for they don’t know what they are doing and believing at.
May God bless you people who hate God. Sana kausapin Niya kayo sa lalong madaling panahon.
To God be the Glory!!!
Sa katuwiran palang baluktot na baluktot talaga itong mga Atheist. Pag sinabi ng science bilog ang mundo naniniwala kaagad. Pag sinabi ng science ang tao galing sa uranggutan naniwala kaagad based daw on studies and facts. Sino ang nag sabi noon? Di ba tao? Bakit kayo naniniwala? Noong si Jesus Christ nag sabi na may Ama siya na nasa langit hindi kayo naniniwala? Gayong walang scientist na makagawa ng ginawa Niya.
Sana ipagkaloob ng Dios na lahat ng atheist makasumpong ng kaligtasan sa pamamagitan ng pagkakilala sa Dios. Mapalad nga ang naniniwala na hindi nakakita kay sa nakakita na hindi naniniwala. Pagpapalain po tayo ng Amang nasa langit sa pamamagitan ng kanyang bugtong na Anak na si Jesus.
Very well said again I love you Bro. Eli Soriano. Bless you all atheist!
There’s ONE thing common among ATHEISTS —
1 John 4:8: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
ATHEIST has no LOVE for GOD is LOVE..
AGREE or NOT AGREE?
#TheBilbleIsNotFiction
#TheBibleIsNotFiction
Thanks be to God for a preacher like you Bro. Eli. No one’s like you that will give time to tackle this issue. ^_^
I strongly agree that God created the universe in its perfect order. That’s why we need to follow His words for us to maintain the order or else it will be chaotic. And the authentic proof of God's words is in the Bible! To God be the glory!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Praise our Lord! It almost reads like a charlatan twisting a square peg into a round hole, but nah. I mean I know we Christians have no actual evidence but this is well written.
Scientists are still searching for evidence to explain the whole ideas from small things to vast of universe but still some of them are considered a theory, an iota of truth.
Atheist claimed themselves perfect but ironically they are relying also from the book of sciences.
All Atheists must read the Bible first before they say it is a fiction book. All God’s words are really true, just think and confront your conscience to evaluate yourself if the word of God can make you a good person.
Finally, when a time comes men who do not believe GOD will meet his/her inevitable death, for any kind of circumstances especially in heavy distress or imminent danger, he/she would ask or call God to help him/her out of misery.
Let us veer our wrong belief into realistic spiritual Word of GOD. Please listen to Bro. Eli’s point of view, just open your heart and you will learn a lot with God’s help.
Salamat sa Dios ng marami, kahit hindi ako ganoon katalino pero nakakaintindi naman.
Amen, Bro.Eli.
The truth of God will ever stand and prevail." the words of a wise are as gouge and as nail fasten by the masters of assembly which given from one shepherd ". Ang magtangka giba!
To all atheist: By this reasoning, if you don't believe in God you are not a human being. Open your hearts to the truth.
I only hear these arguments to Brother Eli and his questions are VALID!
No wonder EVIL DOERS came from these people…People who deny the existence of GOD…the GOD who teaches to do GOOD
To the atheists out there, have you read the entire Bible for you to say that it is FICTION?!
Follow Brother Eli’s Blog and you will learn more interesting things about the Bible. I guarantee you! 😀 “Been there, done that, man!”
Atheists, ask your conscience and it will surely answer that there is GOD. We dare you all! Just be true to yourself. No more no less.
Bro. Eli, may GOD continue protect and use you to proclaim to the world the existence, goodness, everlasting mercy, etc. of GOD, until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This atheists refuse to believe God’s existence to excuse their behaviors. They just want to be free of guilt on the things that they do because they can’t accept the fact that there are things they can’t do if they do acknowledge the existence of God. No wonder that I never encountered a well-mannered (non hypocrite) atheist. Most of them are prideful people who thinks they’re superior and more intelligent by making fun or ridiculing people who don’t agree with their belief. So much for being “well educated” :/
Thank God for a very clear explanation, Bro. Eli!
To God be the Glory
Thank you po, Bro. Eli for giving them advice. Hopefully and I pray to GOD that one day they realize before it’s to late because we know and we can’t deny it that one day we will ask and seek His help because we are helpless in His hands. So wake up you people. May god bless you!
#TheBibleIsNotFiction
@ Brother Eli Soriano, tama ka po! Ang mga Atheista na yan ay mga walang takot sa DIOS kaya po sila nagsasabi at nagpo-post ng mga ganyang mga bagay at salita laban sa DIOS. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER ELI!
#TheBibleIsNotFiction. Tama po! SA DIOS ANG KAPURIHAN! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
Atheism equals to idiotism!
God Bless you Bro. Eli!
Athiesm is equivalent to chaos and disorder. It is the highest degree of foolishness. Thank God for sending Bro. Eli to preach the truth.
#TheBibleIsNotFiction it's not a Marvel comics or a spaghetti monster.
Bro. Eli, there are too many versions of the Bible nowadays. Can you tell me how and where to get a copy of the Bible that you use?
Any right-thinking person would not regard the Bible as a fiction nor as a figment of someone’s caprice. The Bible though as ancient as the human civilization cannot be antiquated by time, its sound teachings and principles are still pertinent and valuable in this generation as explained by Bro. Eli. The historical narratives of the Bible are genuine and has been validated by Historians, its scientific accounts are even more advance than human discoveries as pointed our in this previous blog http://www.elisoriano.com/blog/big-bang-theory-creation-believe/.
Bible is the book of truth. If somebody don't believe in God they are simply in the assembly of evilness.
I strongly agree that God created the universe in its perfect order. The authentic proof of God’s words is written in the Bible..To God be the glory
I have a question: Why do atheists think that the Bible if Fiction?
Bible can tell the past and future but atheist can't.
Therefore I conclude Atheism’s belief is FICTION!
Salamat sa Dios. This is another proof to the authenticity of God's Word. The Bible is not a fiction.
Please read the blog of Bro. Eli and you will find out what is truth, especially the atheists. #TheBibleIsNotfiction
Thanks be to God for someone like Bro. Eli who is leading us!
You still have time, atheists! It is better to believe that there is "Someone" who created us & everything.
Everything that have been written in the Bible are sensible & worthy to believe. Until this time Bro. Eliseo Soriano's teachings are firm & has always proved that the Bible is not a fiction. #TheBibleIsNotFiction
Itong mga atheists parang sila lang ang may karapatan magpaliwanag tungkol sa science. Parang sila lang ang marunong.
If God doesn’t exists that means you should not exists too. God made man on His own image so you don’t have the right to say that you came from chimpanzee. Believe it or not your ancestors are chimpanzees. CRAZY ATHEISTS pardon me.
Absolutely correct! To God be the glory!
AMEN
Explanation as bright as a day! I dare any atheist to disprove this! To God be the glory!
Sana maliwanagan po silang hindi naniniwala sa Dios. To God be the glory!
Wow! What a great show of wisdom and love of God of the Bible even to His creations who refuse to acknowledge Him.
The Creator, through Bro. Eli’s writing of this blog, does not instantly despise and condemn these arrogant atheists but offer them real chance to rethink and reconsider their unbelief to their own Creator.
May this enlighten the atheists. Thanks to the only wise, good, and loving God of the Bible, who created everything in the whole universe.
To GOD be all the glory and honor forever!
The things in the world and in the universe are proofs that there is a Creator called GOD. Therefore, I believe in God. Thanks be to God.
Lahat ng verses na inilatag ni Bro. Eli na hindi matututulan! :))
Ang tututol na lang talaga ay yung mga ma-pride at nag-iisip na sila ang tama!
Salamat sa Dios ng marami sa pgabubukas muli ng pintuan ng karunungan sa ating mga mangangaral! Very well said!
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!! 🙂
Thanks be to God. To God be the glory! Amen.
Thanks be to God for this nice and intelligent blog. I hope with God’s help they (atheists) will be enlighten in one day.
God Almighty is a God of order. Order can be observed within the unfathomable reaches of the universe. It is illogical to believe that the expansion of the universe began with a gigantic explosion but resulted in very good and proper order. #TheBibleIsNotFiction Thanks be unto God for sending us the most sensible televangelist of our time, Bro. Eli Soriano!
Whew! This one should awaken those atheists.They think they know everything about the world and even deny the Divine existence. Thanks be to God, Bro. Eli. Looking forward to more articles like this.
Everyone support Bro. Eli Soriano because many people believe in God. Give Up atheists! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
#TheBibleIsNotFiction
TO GOD BE THE GLORY ^_^ #TheBibleIsNotFiction
The Bible is truth (John 17:17) and the one that contains it is the word of God with power (Luke 1:37). But the theory of Big Bang is nonsense.
Very well said Bro Eli. So clear as ice to understand why the Bible is not fiction and why these atheists keep refusing the existence of God. Atheism is full of shills, pride, ignorance plus arrogancy. Feel pity for their souls. Hope they would change their views upon reading your great article. Can’t wait for more to come. To God be the Glory!
Glory to God!
After reading this blog, if I were you (atheists), I’d rather eat my pride than continue believing that the Bible is a fiction!
Thank you Brother Eli for your courage to answer those hard-headed atheists.
Please continue sharing us more wisdom from the bible!
Thanks be to God!!!
The best book ever written is not fiction: The Bible. Fools delight in wickedness and love chaos. Read it and be immersed in the light of truth!
Amen, Bro. Eli! To God be the glory!
I CORINTHIANS 3:18
Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.
Atheists must take it from the expert and it is from God. No advice can be better than the advice of the words in Bible which are true. To God be the Glory!!!
I pray for atheists that God may enlighten their minds and hearts and that they may live with purpose! Without God, your life will be so miserable. #TheBibleIsNotFiction
Wow! A very clear manifestation of God’s unfathomable wisdom, preached by His sent preacher in this perilous times where atheism is very rampant. Atheists are just freeing themselves from the guilt they feel after committing numerous violations of God’s ordinances written in the Holy Scriptures.
Majority of the criminals, adulterers, hypocrites, boastful, self-centered came from atheists. I just could not accept atheists’ theory that humans came from apes, and that the universe came from nothing and just exploded. Oh, come on! Don’t degrade the humankind. Its very logical to believe in the Bible which can foretell the past and the future. Don’t be boastful and prideful atheists. Mind you, you will regret your decision of being against God soon when the perfect time comes that the “fallacious science” you keep believing on cannot save you from His anger and wrath. BETTER CHANGE FOR GOOD!
Magsaya tayo mga kapatid sapagkat napakapalad natin na maliwanagan sa mga bagay na pang langit, at nadidisplina tayo ng katuwirang galing sa Diyos. Nangigilabot ako at napapaluha kung gaano tayo kapalad samantalang ang mga taong ito (atheists) ay madidilim na ang pagiisip.
Naaalala ko noon nang humingi ako ng sign sa Diyos at kinaawaan niya ako. Lubog na po ako sa mga bisyo noon at nasira pa ang aking pamilya. Ngunit pakiramdam ko mayroong hindi tama kaya humingi po ako ng tulong sa Kanya. Ngayon, sa awa at tulong ng Diyos, pinapagtibay Niya ako sa pananampalatayang ito. Sa Diyos ang lahat ng karangalan at kapurihan magpakailanman.
To say the least that the Bible is a book of fiction is tantamount to saying that it is fiction to love a wife or a husband. Here are injunctions of the Bible – EPHESIANS 5:25, 28
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
"So, is being faithful to each other fiction? Imagine the evil that would result in regarding these pronouncements as fiction! Love your neighbor as yourself. Fiction?Honor your father and your mother. Fiction? Is this hearsay?" – Brother Eliseo Soriano
Indeed. Thanks be to God. (Y) (Y)
God is a God of order! The Bible is NOT a FICTION! Thanks be to God.
#TheBibleIsNotFiction
Amen! To GOD be the Glory!
Salamat sa Dios sa isang katulad mo Bro. Eli.
Well, as they say: You are the master of your faith and the captain of your soul. Don’t expect receiving a diploma of salvation from GOD on your graduation while remaining these days as an atheist.
Salamat sa Dios at may Bro Eli Soriano!
MGA ATHEISTA, hirap ng baguhin mga yan liban sa DIOS, kasi nga nakahula na ang mga yan, maliban na kung ang humula sa kanila ang siyang babago sa kanila.
I challenge all atheists, ask yourselves: At one point in time, WHY DO YOU DO GOOD? Think carefully before you answer.
To God be the glory!!!
Big Bang Theory??? Iit will never be a fact! It will remain a theory. Big Bang has been proven wrong now; accident can’t produced beautiful things.
Mga anak ng demonyo ang mga atheists; kasama nila ang mga pastor na bulaan! Mga tutol sa aral ng Dios .
Thanks be to God. To God be all the glory and honor. Atheist, there's more than meets the eye. If you just read the whole bible. Just give it a try, i guarantee you. Just look inside yourself while reading the bible. You don't really have to seek tangible evidences because not all evidences are tangible. That's the power of God. You are only depending on tangible evidences but God can provide both tangible and intangible proofs.
The God of order that atheists refuse to acknowledge
#TheBibleIsnotfriction
Thanks to God….
Atheists, this is for you –
Psalms.53
[1] The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
[2] God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
[3] Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
What good awaits us if we believe these arrogant atheists? none!!!
Christ Jesus’ doctrines, however, teach us to be better persons.
I’d rather choose to be a better person than these wise men wannabes who are sure to meet their master from hell on judgment day.
Thanks be to God for sending us a preacher like you, Bro. Eli. I really love this post!
I really love this post, Bro. Eli! 🙂
if man hide the truth, God will reveal to them who seek for truth because God speaketh truth.