About God
“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
Here is I believe a simple truth. I as an individual can present what I believe about God from now to the day God calls me home. I can put all the proofs I can muster out there for people to read. And I know despite all that I do there will be people around me and people who read the blogs I post that will not believe in God.
The writer of Hebrews more or less admits to this, noting,
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”
Hebrews 11:6.
Faith defined as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1.
I think that’s the hard part. Believing in what we cannot see. Yet it is a requirement of God that you believe in Him without seeing Him.
That’s not to say we cannot see his handy work all around us. The psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
One just has to look at the perfection of the world around us to see that there has to be a creator of it all.
Do you believe?
Please think about it.
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Thursday, 29 October 2015
Monday, 9 March 2015
Foolishness
Foolishness
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
The above is what Christians believe. We present to the world a Saviour that is the Son of God. A Suffering Messiah.
We ask people to believe by faith that Jesus is the One and Only Son of God. That he came to earth died, was buried, rose from the dead, walked the earth briefly, before ascending to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.
We ask people to believe in the trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit one being existing in three parts.
These are hard things to accept yet they are the basics of Christianity.
They are truths that a true seeker of God will find to be true if they read the Bible particularly the New Testament. It however takes faith. The writer of Hebrews stating,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6
Please if you are truly seeking God, pray and ask God to show you these truths.
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
The above is what Christians believe. We present to the world a Saviour that is the Son of God. A Suffering Messiah.
We ask people to believe by faith that Jesus is the One and Only Son of God. That he came to earth died, was buried, rose from the dead, walked the earth briefly, before ascending to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.
We ask people to believe in the trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit one being existing in three parts.
These are hard things to accept yet they are the basics of Christianity.
They are truths that a true seeker of God will find to be true if they read the Bible particularly the New Testament. It however takes faith. The writer of Hebrews stating,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6
Please if you are truly seeking God, pray and ask God to show you these truths.
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