God
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.
God exists. Whether you believe it or not. He has given each and every person freedom to do as they wish. At the same time God has place in the hearts of all men universal moral absolutes necessary for civilization to exist. The ten commandments being the simplest example of those moral absolutes. Obedience to those simple ten commands alone makes our society a safer place for all.
Knowing there is a God who to whom we will have to one day answer, a God who will one day judge us, also keeps society grounded.
The writer of Ecclesiastes states,
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.
It is when men loose their fear of God, and individuals feel they can do as they wish, that bad things start to happen. We only have to look into our jails to see men and women who have no fear of God or the consequences of their actions. To state the obvious they are filled with murderers, thieves, and other criminals.
On a global scale there are terrorist who have twisted the absolute moral values to suit their own way of thinking. With no fear of God.
The apostle Paul speaking to the Athenians said,
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:24-31.
That Judge is Jesus.
While Jesus will one day judge the world. Jesus offers us all hope. Speaking of himself He said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3:16-18.
Please think about it.
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.
God exists. Whether you believe it or not. He has given each and every person freedom to do as they wish. At the same time God has place in the hearts of all men universal moral absolutes necessary for civilization to exist. The ten commandments being the simplest example of those moral absolutes. Obedience to those simple ten commands alone makes our society a safer place for all.
Knowing there is a God who to whom we will have to one day answer, a God who will one day judge us, also keeps society grounded.
The writer of Ecclesiastes states,
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.
It is when men loose their fear of God, and individuals feel they can do as they wish, that bad things start to happen. We only have to look into our jails to see men and women who have no fear of God or the consequences of their actions. To state the obvious they are filled with murderers, thieves, and other criminals.
On a global scale there are terrorist who have twisted the absolute moral values to suit their own way of thinking. With no fear of God.
The apostle Paul speaking to the Athenians said,
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:24-31.
That Judge is Jesus.
While Jesus will one day judge the world. Jesus offers us all hope. Speaking of himself He said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3:16-18.
Please think about it.
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