The Question
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25,26.
Here is a simple statement spoken by Jesus himself that every man and woman that has ever been presented with the gospel of Christ must answer. Who do you believe Jesus is.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“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 patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
For those who doubt that Jesus is indeed God incarnate, God in the flesh, I would suggest you read C. S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity. He for me presents an excellent case for Jesus.
Either way God has given each and every person a free will to choose the path they follow. That free will includes the right to reject the claims of Jesus and the gift of eternal life that he offers.
Jesus said,
... “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6.
The decision as to who you believe Jesus is however remains up to you the reader.
I a Christian would ask one thing of you the reader. Please read at least the New Testament with an open mind and no preconceived ideas before you make your final decision about Jesus.
Please think about it.
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The Question
The Question
“The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'”
Billy Graham
Most people especially here in the west have a hard time understanding what they can’t see, hear or touch. As a result they dismiss the spiritual dimension of life. It’s hard to have faith in something one can’t see.
The writer of Hebrews defines faith as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1.
Scientist I believe come closest to Christians when it comes to faith. They look at the evidence around them and make their theories.
They believe from the best evidence they have before them their theory is correct, and start to make an experiment that will prove it. They are if you will, sure of what they hope for, and certain of what they do not see.
As a Christian I look at the world around me in all it’s mathematical perfection and see the hand of a creator God.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
The way I see things is that everything on this earth came together to support mankind. I doesn’t matter to me whether God created the earth in six twenty-four hour days or using the big bang over billions of years.
What I believe is God created it. That there is life after death and that it is your actions in this world that will decide as to where you will spend eternity.
I cannot believe this world is all there is. If so what a waste of people.
I also see that the majority of the world population throughout history has believed in an after life. It indicates to me that deep down in the soul of every person there is something that says life goes on after death.
It is something sadly many people fail to acknowledge in our so called enlightened day and age.
People in the twenty-first century, especially here in the west have turned away from God for a myriad of reasons and are now worshipping at the alter of materialism.
They are saying in effect, “ This is all there is. So in the end it’s the one with the most toys wins.”
The thing is in the end you don’t take ‘the toys’ with you.”
The writer of Ecclesiastes
“What does the worker gain from his toil?
I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 3:9-17.
I believe we will all one day stand before God. For those who deny there is a God it will be a surprise. Sadly by that time it will be too late.
To day is the day one needs to acknowledge God, to turn and worship him. To acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Saviour of mankind.
Think about it.
“The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'”
Billy Graham
Most people especially here in the west have a hard time understanding what they can’t see, hear or touch. As a result they dismiss the spiritual dimension of life. It’s hard to have faith in something one can’t see.
The writer of Hebrews defines faith as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1.
Scientist I believe come closest to Christians when it comes to faith. They look at the evidence around them and make their theories.
They believe from the best evidence they have before them their theory is correct, and start to make an experiment that will prove it. They are if you will, sure of what they hope for, and certain of what they do not see.
As a Christian I look at the world around me in all it’s mathematical perfection and see the hand of a creator God.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
The way I see things is that everything on this earth came together to support mankind. I doesn’t matter to me whether God created the earth in six twenty-four hour days or using the big bang over billions of years.
What I believe is God created it. That there is life after death and that it is your actions in this world that will decide as to where you will spend eternity.
I cannot believe this world is all there is. If so what a waste of people.
I also see that the majority of the world population throughout history has believed in an after life. It indicates to me that deep down in the soul of every person there is something that says life goes on after death.
It is something sadly many people fail to acknowledge in our so called enlightened day and age.
People in the twenty-first century, especially here in the west have turned away from God for a myriad of reasons and are now worshipping at the alter of materialism.
They are saying in effect, “ This is all there is. So in the end it’s the one with the most toys wins.”
The thing is in the end you don’t take ‘the toys’ with you.”
The writer of Ecclesiastes
“What does the worker gain from his toil?
I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 3:9-17.
I believe we will all one day stand before God. For those who deny there is a God it will be a surprise. Sadly by that time it will be too late.
To day is the day one needs to acknowledge God, to turn and worship him. To acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Saviour of mankind.
Think about it.
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