Acts 5:38-39
Fighting God
38 Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. 39 But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."
Gamaliel, one of the prominent religious leaders and one of the Sanhedrin, was talking about the disciples and there seeing and believing in the resurrected Jesus...Gamaliel was a teacher of the young St. Paul (Acts 22:3)...No doubt Gamaliel would have had an interest in a former student, Paul, as he traveled around and taught the Gentiles about Jesus, God, and the Scriptures...I would bet Gamaliel, would have known about the Gentile Missionary of Paul (since Paul was his student) as he made his way around the mid and near east preaching the good news about Jesus...
As we seek God and look for His presence, there will be times when we have doubts...Men are flawed, in this respect...The more we learn and gain in knowledge, the more we doubt...Examining the Bible and seeking God will resolve many of these doubts...
The Bible and its oral stories have been around since the beginning of time...The original oral stories that were passed along were intended to be a focus on God, the Father...The stories were about faith...I doubt if the early oral storytellers had many thoughts about science or history on their minds as they orally told these stories about God, to their families and children and friends...Later Moses wrote down these oral stories in the first five books of our Bible...Some say the Book of Job and the story about Job is the oldest book in the Bible...Job, if it is the oldest book, is still read today...In fact, all the books of the Bible are still read today...It is the best selling book of all times...It is the most examined and studied book of all times...After thousand years of examination and scrutiny the Bible still lives today and is the number one selling book, as it should be...
As Gamaliel said, if a purpose or activity is of human origin, it eventually fails...But if the purpose is from God, man cannot stop it...The Bible and the oral Bible stories have been around since the beginning of time and are still here...Why have they made it through thick and thin and all these times?...The Bible has been the most read, most discussed, most debated, most studied, and most controversy book in the history of man...It has preserved and survived all these years...The Bible is still here today...The Bible is from God, and you cannot fight against our LORD...