Of Jesus
“The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t know if Emerson was a Christian but he is right when he states, “He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.”
Jesus did know the full worth of man because he is God and he created man. He wanted man to have fellowship with Him.
In our world today life is cheap. Murder on and industrial scale has been going on since before the twentieth century. The twentieth however put murder in the form of war into overdrive and the carnage continues as we enter the twenty-first century.
The carnage on a lesser scale also happens in the form of murders by individuals on the streets of our cities. Crime is everywhere.
Some people within our society have no fear of the law. Their conscience seems to be non-existent. They to steal, murder, rape and kill at will.
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society. Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
Abba Hillel Silver
The more our society becomes more secularized and God is taken out of it or as in the case of groups like ISIS the morals of God are twisted the worse our society becomes.
Our society needs moral absolutes and unless we the inhabitants of Planet Earth turn back to God’s absolutes I’m afraid our society will eventually spiral down to anarchy or end in hell.
Think about it.
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