Merry Christmas

How to Be Saved



Happy Thanksgiving

Remember to give thanks to God our Creator on this Thanksgiving.

Thanks to Jesus He is God our Creator and Redeemer.

Comments on Genesis 1: 13

Genesis 1:13
And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Commentary

Once again we the term “evening and the morning” denoting this third day as an ordinary Earth day.  

A Christian Perspective on Death

For the Christian death is not last we will see of our believing loved one for we not only expect to see them in heaven upon our death but the hope of the Christian is the resurrection and glorification of our physical bodies.

According to the Bible all humans are born as sinners in rebellion against God. The resulting evil makes us unfit for heaven. If we die in this state God can not allow us into heaven since we would ruin it as we have the Earth and God’s respect for free will prevents God from forcing Himself on us so he has no choice but to allow the unredeemed sinners to a place with out God called hell. We can only go to heaven by accepting God’s gift of redemption and then he can change us so that we are fit for heaven. The reason for this is that when sinners rejects God’s gift of redemption they are saying that they don’t want to be with God and so at death God lets them go to a place with out him and that place it called hell. God’s gift of redemption was made possible by Jesus (God in the Flesh) dyeing on the cross so as to pay for our sin. If we accept God’s gift of redemption go to be with him at death. For the dyeing this is actually the most wonderful event we have ever experienced as we see the resurrected Jesus face to face and see our saved loved ones that died before us.

Death however is not the end of the body for when Jesus returns for his church the dead in Christ will be resurrected and those Christians living at the time will allow with them be taken up to meet the Lord in the air with these bodies taking on a glorified form will no long be subject to death.

A Christian Perspective on Life.

Life from a Christian perspective is a serves to Jesus Christ in gratitude foe what He has done for us. This  includes not only things like helping others to find salvation through Jesus but it also means using the talents and abilities God as given us to reach people for Jesus. This can be something as dramatic and adventurous as going to some remote primitive village to something as mundane as working to be able to help support such missionaries. The key is in finding how God would have us use our talents for Him.

The Christian life also means living a life that is separated from those pleasures of the world that are not pleasing to God. This is not about fear of God striking us down out of anger but out of Love and wanting to keep a close relationship with Him.

To a faithful Christian this not drudgery by the greatest joy a Christian can have.

Independent Thinking

The importance of independent thinking can not be understated because it means thinking for your self. Independent thinking does not mean that you believe or think a certain way; in fact it means the exact opposite. The key to being an independent thinker is knowing the reason why you believe what you believe and not believing something just because some one in authority told you to believe it. It means checking out what you are told and rather than just absorbing it like a sponge.

Contrary to the claims of some being an independent thinker does not necessarily mean abandoning one’s faith. This is particularly true with Christianity which is based on an individual relationship with God. It may be a problem for some churches or denominations but not for the Christian faith itself.

Independent thinking is hard work since it requires checking out and thinking about what you hear. However the rewards are worth the effort since it is easier to defend a position that you have thought through and know why you think it’s correct as opposed to that’s what I was taught.

Freedom of thought is the freest right that exists since it transcends physical freedom and circumstances. It is the one right that even the most tyrannical of dictators can not take away by force but has to be surrendered voluntarily. You can be chained in the darkest of dungeons and still be totally free inside your own mind.

Here is Proof of the Existence of Absolute Truth

The fact that Absolute Truth exists has come under attack by people trying to claim that all view points are equally true this claim is particularly made a bout religion in attack on the Christian doctrine that Jesus is the only way to God. However the fact is that Absolute Truth exists regardless of what it is can be easily proven on two basic points.

1. The claim that there is no Absolute Truth is self refuting since it is itself a absolute claim about truth and there it is self disproving.

2. There are many points of view that are polar opposites of each other such that both can not be true. As a result all positions on any topic can not be equally true unless they are all equally false.

As a result some possible view point on every must be the truth even if no one holds the true point of view so there for Absolute Truth must exist.