WHICH BOOKS ARE THE BEST TO READ WHEN AT THE LIBRARY, ENCLYCLOPEDIAS, TECHNICAL, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS OR FICTION? Readers Seeking Truth Are Often Deceived By Deceptive Authors Because They Do Not Think In Terms Of Practicalities But Idealism. Broadening what you think about it can be advantageous, but how beneficial is it to be learning untruth?

If people held Bible research at the library instead of Bible study in a church basement, would Christianity or even religion exist at all?

Happy Riches answer requested by Dwayne Robert

Christianity exists because the Son of God became a man and was obedient to the Heavenly Father, even unto death on the Cross of Calvary, where he was crucified in the place of a murderer (Mark 15:7-15), after which He rose on the third day (Acts 10:40).

Bible research at a library might consist of pulling a Bible from a shelf and looking up some texts, such as the following for starters:

• You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to Me [Jesus] that you may have life. (John 5:39-40)

• From childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:15-17)

After having read those texts, one has to ask the question: Does everybody know they possess salvation? Has everybody taken the opportunity to establish their relationship with the Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ?

• Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:6-9)

Having realized that the ways of God are different to the ways of men and the thoughts of God are different to the thinking of men, having a prayer meeting in the Library is not a bad idea at all. After all, the wicked needs to forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, so that each may learn the ways of Almighty God and the thoughts of the Omniscient One.

When comes to doing research in the library and comparing the ideas of men to those of God, in all probability, the wise will spend more time learning what God requires rather than mulling over the thoughts of dead people whose philosophies offer no hope—Nietzsche comes to mind: Nein! Nein! Gott ist tot.

God lives. Ja! Ja! Gott lebt. But it is too late once one has died (Luke 16:19-31).

• Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (John 5:24)

Actually, if research at libraries became compulsory, and philosophies of dead men were compared with the Bible, of whom its Author is testified as living, there might be old-time-religion revivals happening at every library where the events are conducted.

The Ways Of Men Lead To Death But The Way Of God Promises Eternal Life