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A first rough draft to get started ...
Who IS GOD?
Every building has a builder, but the builder of all things is God. (also see: Hebrews 3:4, Genesis 1)
Note that we ALL know that every building has to have a builder ... so for this given we will all be held accountable. (See also Psalm 19, Romans 1:18-32)
When my then youngest grand-daughter was still in High School ... she asked me: 'Popa, how do you know?' My (then start to a) reply to her was like this:
How do you know that one and one are two?
How do you know if your dad is your father?
Many things are obvious ... and are 'the givens' that we all (adults) really do 'know are true' ... just like one and an other one ... we merely label the new total quantity as two ... and then adding an other ... gives us 'three' ... and so we have what we call the natural numbers. These are 'a given' ... the names we call these quantities ... and the base we use ... these are arbitrary ... but may be picked to make some math easier ... like base two for use inside modern digital computers ... or base ten, to facilitate the decimal number system and the use of powers of 10 to express very large (or very fractional) amounts.
Other things we 'know' because we 'see' them ... or we hear from honest witnesses to the event.
Other things we know from the laws of creation (forensics) ... so if the top of building hits the ground right below it at very close to free fall (in air) speed ... we know that any story about 'pan-caking' is a fraud.
God knows what we know and what we do not yet know and will hold us to account for all that we do know ... like the obvious fact that 'every building had a builder' ... so the design and highly irreducibly complex and interdependent structures and 'engines' in His creation point to a very powerful and extremely skilled engineer.
Now since God created all things in the beginning, He can faithfully tell us some of the steps of His creation that He wants us to know ... and He has revealed them to several of His choosen vessels ... and has also promised to preserve ... and thus caused this revelation from Him to be preserved, of His Word, and His character ... in the Holy Bible ... and guided the faithful translation into many languages ... even during the 2nd and 3rd centuries following the final revelation given to the apostle John.
Who IS JESUS? (John 1:1-18, see also Isaiah 9:6,7, Isaiah 12, Isaiah 53)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Why do we need a SAVIOUR? (Romans 3:23, 5:12)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ... Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Who is the SAVIOUR? (Is there more than one SAVIOUR?) (Isaiah 43:11, 44:8, Hosea 13:4)
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. ... Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ... ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. ... Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. (See also: Isaiah 12, Matthew 1:21 ... call his name JESUS: {YESHUA – GOD my SAVIOUR} for he shall save his people from their sins.)
Why do we need to get to know HIM? (John 17:3, Matthew 11:28-30)
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ... Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
How do we (1) get to know HIM, (2) come to know that we know HIM? (John 8:31,32; 1 John 2:3)
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Does He still speak to us today? (John 10:27, 14:26)
My sheep hear my voice, ... they follow me: ... the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (the Holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.