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The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is like a giant jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box. It also could be compared to a treasure hunt. God did not make certain things easy to find, but He did not make it impossible either. He has now, however, made the most important things crystal clear: Repent of your sins and turn to Christ in "child" like faith, and love Him and your neighbor as yourself.

There was a time when nothing but God and His thoughts existed. And God, who is “one” and without beginning, has always existed as a Trinity—or He became a Trinity. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The Word of God made “all things.” The “beginning of the creation of God” may have been the visible “image of the invisible God,” the “bright and morning star” of Revelation 22:16.

Then God created the “sons of God,” who had freedom of thought and would exist forever. It seems the first created was Lucifer, the “anointed cherub,” who was “perfect” in his ways until “iniquity” was found in him. God charged His sons “with folly,” and many turned against Him. So God implemented His plan of "grace" to forgive and spiritually recreate all His sons. He “knew” who would accept and hoped that all would. He promised the “elect” eternal life “before the world began.” We were "predestined" to be

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