Follow your conscience and you will find God.
You do have a conscience,
that makes you feel good when you obey it
and gives you regrets when you don't.
You want to live a good, long life and be happy.
You don't want to die.
If it would be possible you would want to live forever.
Your conscience knows right from wrong.
If there is a Heaven, you want to go there.
If there is a Hell, you don't want to go there.
If there is a God, He will give you wisdom and help you do the right thing.
Just ask!
You have a lot to gain and nothing to lose ?
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I just love this article I just read about God:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#Trilemma
In the book Mere Christianity, Lewis famously criticized the idea that Jesus was merely a human being, albeit a great moral teacher:
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to" (Lewis 1952, pp. 43).
According to the argument, most people are willing to accept Jesus Christ as a great moral teacher, but the Gospels record that Jesus made many claims to divinity, either explicitly — ("I and the father are one." John 10:30; when asked by the High priest whether he was the Son of God, Jesus replied "It is as you said" Matthew 26:63-26:64) — or implicitly, by assuming authority only God could have ("the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" Matthew 9:1-6). Lewis said there are three options:
1. Jesus was telling falsehoods and knew it, and so he was a liar.
2. Jesus was telling falsehoods but believed he was telling the truth, and so he was insane.
3. Jesus was telling the truth, and so he was divine.
Lewis’s argument was later expanded by the Christian apologist Josh McDowell in his book More Than a Carpenter (McDowell 2001). The term "trilemma" (which Lewis did not use) is often used to refer to this argument. Although widely repeated in Christian apologetic literature, it has been largely ignored by professional theologians and biblical scholars.[1]
Lewis's trilemma appeared at a time when secular scholars, such as David Friedrich Strauss, had portrayed Jesus's miracles and resurrection as myths. The concept that Jesus was not God but a wise man had gained ground in academic circles. The trilemma opposes the idea that Jesus was not divine, without relying on miracles for proof. In accepting the premise that Jesus had claimed divinity, he contradicted a viewpoint, popularized by H. G. Wells in his Outline of History, that Jesus had made no such claim.
When we live we might not think we need faith in God. We have all the visible things and people around us and they keep us occupied.
But in the moment we die we step into unknown and we need all the faith we can get.
I think the more we believe in God while living the better prepared we are for dying.
Fairness means "free from injustice".
Not an easy to understand concept.
I remember when I was in school and somebody from our class would do something wrong and we all got punished for that; I thought that was not fair.
In the same way Adam and Eve sinned long time ago and when God punished them; we all suffer these consequences every day.
This is probably the main explanation bad things are happening to “good” people.
“What have I done to deserve this?” sounds like a legitimate question.
We all live in a fallen world where the effects of sin and brokenness affect everybody. And sometimes it just doesn’t seem fair…
But the good news is this: It wasn’t fair for God to punish Jesus on the cross for all the sins of everybody in the world either. But He did it anyway. It don’t think it’s fair for me to receive forgiveness of my sins when somebody else paid for it. But I receive it anyway and I am grateful and glad with God not all things are fair.
I hear some saying that "The Bible" has too many things in it and is hard.
Than I think to myself that if it would have only one page and one verse: Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." it would be simple.
So we would only believe this and it would be the humbling revelation that we owe everything to God.
So maybe than we would ask Him: What now ?
Since the Fall of man, there has been a great battle for the souls of men and women.
God want us to follow Him out of gratitude and love,
and the evil one wants us to do whatever as long as it's not that.
James 1:5
"If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him."
When we drive on the freeway,
the LAW says 100 km/hour maximum but
our opinion of righteousness says up to 130-140 km/hour it's ok.
I imagine a police officer and a judge coming where I live and going from door to door asking who ever broke the LAW.
I would have to admit that I am guilty because my conscience tells me so.
What if I have to do time in jail ?
What if I have to pay a huge fine ?
But what about if from the crowd a man I don't even know would offer to pay it all.
I complained I had no shoes till I met a man with no legs.
A. W. Tozer wrote in The Knowledge of the Holy:
God’s justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become
a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws every day nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded.
As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.
“Most I fear God. Next to Him, I fear him that fears Him not.”
If someone has no fear of God, he will lie to you, steal from
you, and even kill you . . . if he thinks he can get away with it.
Charles Spurgeon:
"Ho, ho sir surgeon, you are too delicate to tell the
man that he is ill! You hope to heal the sick without
their knowing it. You therefore flatter them; and what happens?
They laugh at you; they dance upon their own graves.
At last they die! Your delicacy is cruelty;
your flatteries are poisons; you are a murderer.
Shall we keep men in a fool’s paradise?
Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from
which they will awake in hell?
Are we to become helpers of their
damnation by our smooth speeches?
In the name of God we will not."
“God commands all men everywhere
to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness.”
The issue isn’t one of happiness, but one of righteousness.
The fact that the Bible doesn’t mention the word “happiness”
even once, yet mentions "righteousness” 289 times,
should make the issue clear.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
Fear is the opposite of faith.
Still there are some healthy fears we should all have, like fear of danger ... and probably the number one should be "fear of ending up in hell".
HE had no servants, yet they called Him Master.
Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher.
Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer
He had no army, yet kings feared Him...
He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world.
He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.
He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today.
My wish is that today I would trust God more than I did yesterday
and tomorrow I trust Him more than today
because there is coming a day for all of us when we will have to trust Him completely.
Thoughts on the Resurrection
The fact that God raised someone from the dead is not really significant. He raised the dead a number of times both in the Old and New Testaments. But Jesus resurrection had enormous lawful repercussions. It was evidence that the Judge of the universe had acknowledged that the payment for our sins was acceptable. It was the key that unlocked the door to immortality for humanity.
When eternal justice called for our blood, Jesus gave His blood to atone for our crimes.
We were not redeemed with silver and gold...but with the precious blood of Christ.
Many Jews had been crucified as criminals by the Roman cross. All suffered unspeakable pain. But this Jew's suffering was different because He was the Lamb of God, whose blood did not contain the taint of sin carried by the lineage of Adam.
These are wonderful truths that we know and rejoice in this Easter and every day of the year.
All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Bible
* Miracles happen
* Somebody loves me
* I am not alone
* The majority isn't always right
* Wonderful things happen in dungeons
* Death is only skin deep
* Poverty is temporary and so is wealth
* He who dies with the most toys loses the most toys
* You can always go home again
* Things will look better in three days
* I always have at least one friend that is closer than a brother
* Family is everywhere
* There is always something good to look forward to
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WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH SIN AND THE TEMPTATION TO SIN
EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES
IF IT'S NOT THIS THING, IT'S ANOTHER.
IT NEVER ENDS.
WE OVERCOME ONE AND BEFORE WE KNOW IT ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO RESIST ?
WHY ARE WE NOT FREE FROM THIS ONGOING PROBLEM ?
BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO BE FREE
NOT ENTIRELY
EACH OF US LOVES SOME SINS AND WE ARE ADDICTED TO THE WAY THEY MAKE US FEEL.
IT FEELS GOOD FOR THE MOMENT
WE LIKE TOO MUCH TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON
HOW CAN WE BE DELIVERED WHEN IN FACT WE DO NOT REALLY WANT TO BE DELIVERED ?
OH MY GOD
LORD HELP US
THE SMOKER KNOWS WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE CIGARETTES PACKAGE
BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
HE KNOWS THIS BUT STILL HE DOES NOT QUIT
UNTIL THE DOCTOR TELLS HIM HE IS VERY ILL WITH ONLY FEW MONTHS TO LIVE
THEN HE QUITS
MAYBE
We all are a mixture of maturity and immaturity in different areas of our lives.
We hope that with age we become more mature and we learn that the perfecting process is not an easy one and it never really ends.
I believe that growing more mature in our many areas of immaturity starts with asking the right question:
What is the wisest thing to do in this situation ?
We know we are immature when we ask ourselves any other easier questions like:
How much can I do this and get away with it ?
How long can I still do the things I know are not best and still have no negative consequences ?
How many unhealthy things I can put in my body and not get sick ?
How much I can bend the rules and not get caught ?
How fast I can drive without getting a ticket ?
the list is long...
Wisdom actually starts with reverence and respect for the God of the bible, with knowing what He says and allowing the truth to change and shape our thoughts, words and ultimately actions.
Do we want to do that ?
Do we really ?
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