In this week’s Blog I highlight what the True Creator’s God is All about, and His Thoughts towards Us, His Ultimate ‘Crown’ of Creation! (Next week I shall look at the Counterfeit God – God of This World, and His Plans for Humankind)
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
THE GOSPEL OR GOOD NEWS
A SUMMARY OF THE PROCESSES OF FINDING SALVATION TRUTH
- YEARNING FOR TRUTH – EXISTENCE, PURPOSE IN LIFE
- TO FIND ULTIMATE TRUTH WE NEED TO COMPARE BRIEFLY THE MAIN SYSTEMS, IDEOLOGIES OF THE WORLD, WHAT THEY OFFER IN THE WAY OF LIFE GUIDELINES, AND THEIR OVERALL END RESULT OF FOLLOWING THEM LONG TERM – RELIGION, NO RELIGION, EVOLUTION, ATHEISM, =
OBLIVION? OR ETERNITY WITH JOY
- WE WANT SOLID ANSWERS BASED ON SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE –
WHAT SPRINGS TO MIND AS EXAMPLES OF THIS?
- CHRISTIANITY = BASIC MORAL CODE PRACTICED BY MOST OF THE WESTERN WORLD
- COMMUNISM = HARSH DICTATORIAL GOVERNMENT BASED ON ATHEISM AND FEW ELITE CONTROLLING MIND CONFORMING MASSES
- HINDUISM = MANY INTERWOVEN IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES WITH THE END GOAL OF NOTHINGNESS (NIRVANA)
- NATURISM = FOCUS ON NATURE AND NATURAL WORLD, LIVING IN HARMONY WITH IT BUT WITHOUT A PERSONAL, INTELLIGENT GOD
- CATHOLICISM = MIXTURE OF PAGANISM (WORSHIP OF MANY DEITIES, INCLUDING NATURISM) WITH CHRISTIANITY
- PURE CHRISTIANIY = BASED ON THE JUDEAO- CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES OR ‘BIBLE’ (JEWS ACCEPT ONLY PART OF THE BIBLE CALLED ‘OLD TESTAMENT, ISLAM ACCEPT ONLY PART OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CALLED ‘THE LAW’ OR FIRST 5 BOOKS)
- PURE CHRISTIANITY OFFERS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SETS OF PRINCIPLES BY WHICH MOST NATIONS OF THE WORLD ARE GOVERNED, NAMELY – THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE GOLDEN RULE (CALLED ‘KARMA’ IN SOME CULTURES), JUDICIAL METHODS OF PUNISHMENT, COUNSELLING, WITNESSES, JURIES & LAW COURTS, JUDGMENTS AND APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENTS ACCORDING TO MISDEMEANORS AND CRIMES
LOVE IS SHOWN BY THE SACRIFICE OF GOD HIMSELF (CALLED UNDESERVED GRACE) BY WHICH THE CREATOR OF MAN WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT OF MAN’S FIRST MISDEMEANOR/ CRIME./ SIN, IN THE FORM OF GUILT, PAIN AND DEATH ACCORDING TO THE EXTENT OF THE ACCUMULATED DEBT OF MANKIND’S SINS OVER THE PAST MILLENIA SINCE THE CREATION OF MANKIND, TO THE VERY END OF THIS WORLD’S EXPERIMENT WITH SIN (REBELLION OF MAN IN LIVING LIFE ‘HIS’ WAY, RATHER THAN ‘GOD’S BETTER WAY. (MAN’S WAY IS SELF-CENTRED, SELFISH, CORRUPT ULTIMATELY, GOD’S WAY IS OTHER-CENTRED, LOVING, IN HARMONY WITH OTHERS, ULTIMATELY PURE) THE LONG TERM GOAL AND PROMISE TO THOSE WILLING TO TURN, OR REPENT, IS ACCEPTING GOD INTO THEIR LIVES FULLY, ACCEPTING GOD’S PAYMENT THROUGH THE SON OF GOD (JESUS) IN PAYING FOR THEIR FORMER REBELLION, (EVEN THOUGH, MOST OF THE TIME UNAWARE OF IT) AND, THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD’S SPIRIT, FOLLOWING GOD’S PURE GUIDELINES IN THEIR LIVES, IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR THE ULITMATE LIFE, LIVING FOREVER, IE. ETERNALLY, WITH THEIR PERSONAL CREATOR/SAVIOUR GOD, IN PEACE, JOY AND FULL HARMONY WITH ALL OF CREATION AND WITH EACH OTHER AS FELLOW BEINGS!
WHICH ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF ‘CHRISTIAN?’ GROUPS IS EXPOUNDING THE FULL TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE?
READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF, EITHER AN EASY TO READ MODERN VERSION (ALL THE BASICS ARE SPELLED OUT) OR THE AUTHENTIC AND MOST TRUSTWORTHY OLDER VERSION, WITH ITS SOMEWHAT ARCHAIC BUT REVERENT LANGUAGE, REVERED BY MORE CHRISTIAN GROUPS THAN ANY OTHER VERSION
- WHICH GROUP FOLLOWS THE BASIC RULES OF GOD IN THEIR ENTIRETY?
IE. THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, INCLUDING THE 2 GREAT COMMANDMENTS WHICH ARE A SUMMARY OF THE TEN
- WHAT ABOUT PROPHECY (HISTORY IN ADVANCE) INCLUDING FOLLOWING SOUND AND SENSIBLE METHODS OF UNDERSTANDING AND EXPOUNDING THE PROPHETIC BOOKS OF THE BIBLE CONCERNING THE ‘END TIMES’, REVELATION ETC ?.
- HOW BIG IS THE FINAL GROUP EXPECTED TO BE WHO ARE FINALLY ACCEPTED BY GOD? BIG? OR SMALL? WHAT’S MORE IMPORTANT IN THEIR OUTREACH? NUMBERS OF MEMBERS?, AMOUNT OF GOOD WORKS ? OR SIMPLE OBEDIENCE TO EVERYTHING GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO DO IN THEIR LIVES?
DO THESE QUESTIONS AROUSE REASONABLE AND LOGICAL ANSWERS TO THE DEEPEST YEARNINGS OF YOUR INNER BEING?
LOGICAL PROGRESSION WOULD BE TO FOLLOW ON TO THE NEXT STEPS?
(AS THE OLD SAYING GOES, IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM, JOIN THEM)
JOIN JESUS!
JOIN HIS BODY / GROUP/ CHURCH
GROW IN GRACIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
TRUST IN GOD
PRAY MORE AND MORE
WATCH YOUR PRAYERS COME TRUE!!!
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