Is The Bible Still Relevant?

Last week, the BTV Breakfast Show invited me to be a guest to discuss this column. (I should pause here and say thank you to you, my readers, for making this column such a success by faithfully reading it each week!)

They asked many questions which resonated with their audience. If you would like to view the full interview, go to my YouTube channel: Ashley Thaba. Click on the video titled “Breakfast show 2”. But for those who don’t have the eight minutes or so to watch that, I decided for today’s column to answer one of the questions I was asked live on national TV: Is the Bible still relevant today? Furthermore, they wanted to know why we should read the Bible.

We are all busy people! Who has time to read yet another book? Is there any personal benefit or do we just do it to feel like we are fulfilling some religious duty to attract some type of points with the Almighty “eye in the sky” who we may have to answer to on judgement day IF we even believe in that stuff?

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