The Book challenges Christianity's often believed understanding on the Godhead. The author is concerned about the dangers of just accepting what one has been taught about the topic without going to scripture to substantiate it. Christians joined religious groupings for the primary purpose of being saved, not necessarily for belonging for the sake of it. However, the concern comes when, at the end, the very God one thought he or she worshipped says, "I do not know you!" What a treble loss will such a one experience? This study is motivated by the rationale that it is an absolute imperative that every Christian should be clear about not only the standard of worship acceptable to his or her Creator, but also the object of their worship. He or she should have no vestige of doubt about whether he or she is worshiping in Spirit and in truth. And yet for one to be able to worship acceptably, he or she must address his or her worship to the right God, in addition to obviously offering the worship correctly. After all, is it not true that it is possible to be in the right church and still worship a wrong god, or worship the right God in a manner that falls short of being acceptable? Recall that the children of biological Israel thought they were the Chosen Nation only to crucify the very One who had chosen them to be His peculiar people! According to 1 Peter 5v17-18, judgment begins in the house of God, I mean the house of the true God! Why? The implication is clearly that it is possible for those in the correct church to still get lost because they would have fallen short of the required standard of worship, or even worse, worshiped the wrong "God". Recall Christ's answer when He was asked about which commandment is the greatest! He said, "The first of all the commandments is this, 'Hear O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment." [Mark 12v29-30] Other versions say the first and principal or the foremost, or in simple, the greatest. This logically means that anyone breaking this commandment has to be the greatest sinner. Therefore, dear child of God, while there are many false gods, the true God is only ONE. You have to be sure of the God you worship so that you have no doubt that he is the One and only true God and that you are worshiping Him correctly. May God bless and richly reward you in your search for Him!In all matters that pertain to Inspiration, Christians are better advised to tread carefully, lest they mix the common with the sacred and get struck down as did others in the past, as recorded in scripture. I find that the only safe course to take in order to optimally benefit from this study is to present the evidence from Scripture impartially. No attempt should be made to hide anything, even those points that seem to go contrary to one's current understanding. Then, from the weight of evidence alone, one is to choose what makes sense. The safest course is to completely leave out the will of man and let the will of God prevail in each circumstance.I know this last step is not a very easy one to adopt, except when guided by the power of the Holy Spirit, because the human mind will often strive to read its own prejudices into any presentation. May God help both the author and the reader to be divested of every vestige of prejudice so that only that which the Word of God says should prevail will ultimately do so! Give glory to God! The author hopes that, in studying the Word of God, Christians will discover the truth about the God they intend to spend their eternity with.
