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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to ThyWordIsTruth.com. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information that is received and collected by ThyWordIsTruth.com and how it's used.

1. Information We Collect

  • Information You Voluntarily Provide: When you use the contact form on our website to send us a question, you may provide your name and email address. This information is collected solely to allow us to respond to your inquiry. We don't use this information for any other purpose, like sending unsolicited emails.

  • Automatically Collected Information (via Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies" (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. This information includes:

    • Your IP address (anonymized)
    • Browser type and version
    • Operating system
    • Referring website
    • Pages viewed on our site
    • Time spent on pages
    • Geographic location (city/country level)

    This data helps us understand how visitors interact with our website, allowing us to improve its content and functionality. We don't use Google Analytics to collect personally identifiable information.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • To respond to your inquiries submitted through the contact form.
  • To analyze website traffic and user behavior through Google Analytics to improve our website's performance and user experience.

3. Cookies

While we don't intentionally set or use any cookies on our website beyond what Google Analytics may use, it's important to understand that:

  • Google Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to perform its analytics functions. These cookies help Google track your interactions with our website without identifying you personally. You can learn more about how Google uses cookies and how to opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting Google's privacy policy and the Google Analytics opt-out page.
  • Unintentional Cookies: It's possible that certain third-party embeds (e.g., if you embed a video from YouTube or a social media widget) could set cookies on your device without our direct knowledge or intention. We strive to keep our website as lean as possible regarding third-party content to minimize such occurrences.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We don't sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. This doesn't include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential (e.g., website hosting providers). We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.

5. Data Retention

We retain the email addresses and names submitted through our contact form only for as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry. Google Analytics data is retained according to Google's data retention policies.

6. Your Choices

  • Contact Form: Providing your email address on the contact form is optional, but necessary if you want a response from us.
  • Google Analytics Opt-Out: You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by adjusting your browser settings to block cookies.

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

8. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Our website isn't intended for children under 13 years of age. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you're under 13, please don't provide any information on this website.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We'll notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You're advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us using the contact form on our website.

God's Plan of Salvation

You must hear the gospel and then understand and recognize that you are lost without Jesus Christ no matter who you are and no matter what your background is. The Bible tells us that "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) Before you can be saved, you must understand that you are lost and that the only way to be saved is by obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 1:8) Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17)

You must believe and have faith in God because "without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6) But neither belief alone nor faith alone is sufficient to save. (James 2:19; James 2:24; Matthew 7:21)

You must repent of your sins. (Acts 3:19) But repentance alone is not enough. The so-called "Sinner's Prayer" that you hear so much about today from denominational preachers does not appear anywhere in the Bible. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible was anyone ever told to pray the "Sinner's Prayer" to be saved. By contrast, there are numerous examples showing that prayer alone does not save. Saul, for example, prayed following his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:11), but Saul was still in his sins when Ananias met him three days later (Acts 22:16). Cornelius prayed to God always, and yet there was something else he needed to do to be saved (Acts 10:2, 6, 33, 48). If prayer alone did not save Saul or Cornelius, prayer alone will not save you. You must obey the gospel. (2 Thess. 1:8)

You must confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. (Romans 10:9-10) Note that you do NOT need to make Jesus "Lord of your life." Why? Because Jesus is already Lord of your life whether or not you have obeyed his gospel. Indeed, we obey him, not to make him Lord, but because he already is Lord. (Acts 2:36) Also, no one in the Bible was ever told to just "accept Jesus as your personal savior." We must confess that Jesus is the Son of God, but, as with faith and repentance, confession alone does not save. (Matthew 7:21)

Having believed, repented, and confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, you must be baptized for the remission of your sins. (Acts 2:38) It is at this point (and not before) that your sins are forgiven. (Acts 22:16) It is impossible to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ without teaching the absolute necessity of baptism for salvation. (Acts 8:35-36; Romans 6:3-4; 1 Peter 3:21) Anyone who responds to the question in Acts 2:37 with an answer that contradicts Acts 2:38 is NOT proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Once you are saved, God adds you to his church and writes your name in the Book of Life. (Acts 2:47; Philippians 4:3) To continue in God's grace, you must continue to serve God faithfully until death. Unless they remain faithful, those who are in God's grace will fall from grace, and those whose names are in the Book of Life will have their names blotted out of that book. (Revelation 2:10; Revelation 3:5; Galatians 5:4)