Is the Bible still relevant in today's world? This section will answer that question.

Some people in this day and age state that since the Bible was written almost two-thousand years ago, it no longer has any relevancy to the world we live in. When you look at the technological advances humankind has made over the last two millennia, the results are stunning. During the last one-hundred years humans have created airplanes, automobiles, and ships that have reduced the travel time of human beings from days, weeks, and years to that of minutes and hours. Telephones and radios have allowed humans to communicate with each other as close as next door or as far away as the other side of the world. Television has made it possible for people to see each other all over the earth. The computer age of the last few decades have allowed for dramatic increases in healthcare, communication, science, space travel, and many other areas of life that affect human beings. Humankind's technological progression has truly been a series of incredible achievements. So do all these events make the Bible irrelevant?

If the Bible's primary focus was with the world's and human's physical environment then I believe the answer would be yes. But the Bible relates God's concern with His creation, humankind. It declares in Genesis 1:27 that God created humans in His own image. This means that God is our Father and has a Father's love for His children. It is His desire that we choose to live our lives in a beneficial way for ourselves and for other human beings. Sadly, as the Bible makes clear, we humans have chosen to rebel against our heavenly Father's wishes and have chosen to live our lives to satisfy our own personal desires. This sinful rebellion is what the Bible refers to as human nature. It is our human nature that God wants to change in our lives if we will let Him.

The Bible, which as stated above, was written almost two thousand years ago. The Old Testament shows how God chose the Jewish nation of Israel, the least of all the peoples on the earth as He called them, to be an example to the rest of humankind. He gave them rules to live by in order that they would have prosperous, fulfilled lives. But like all the other humans on the earth they rebelled and committed murders, rapes, thefts, sexual immoralities, idolatry and many other forms of evil. This rebellious attitude of His creation caused humans to lose fellowship with their heavenly Father. So God had a plan to reconcile His children to Himself.

The New Testament reveals this plan. In probably the most well-known verse in the Bible, John 3:16-17, God declares His desire to restore His children into fellowship with Him: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved." God then sent His Holy Spirit upon those of His children who accepted Jesus Christ as their savior to help them live the prosperous, fulfilled lives that He originally had intended for them. But God does not force anyone to accept His Son. God never forces anyone to love Him. Sadly many people reject God and His Son Jesus Christ. But to those who do receive Jesus He gave them wisdom in how to live their lives.

This wisdom is found in the Holy Bible. In it God tells His children not to commit murder, adultery, and robbery. He says for humans not to get drunk or participate in sexual immorality or many of the other evils that exist in our world. Why does God ask His children not to partake of this evil behavior? Because He knows that these sinful behaviors will harm us and those around us. Jesus said that we are to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. What loving Father wants to see his children suffer or make others suffer? Sadly there are many people suffering today because they have not heeded God's word, which is found in the Bible.

So even though humans have tremendously progressed technologically since the Bible was written, their behavior is exactly the same as that of their forbearers two-thousand years ago. And just as the Bible had the answers back then for people to overcome their human nature, it has the same answers for people in this day and age.

Therefore, the answer to the question: "Is the Bible still relevant in today's world?" is an unequivocal "Yes!"