I write the following out of love and deep concern for those that reject Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
I find the comments made by the scoffers and unbelievers on this tread both amazing and sad at the same time. I am amazed by many of the comments that show a complete lack of knowledge and understanding regarding God, His revealed Word in the Bible, or the eternal importance of what God has revealed to His creation.It becomes obvious, by reading many of the comments of the unbelievers, that they obviously spend more time researching a video game they are considering buying than seriously thinking about God's revelation to humanity and the consequences of how we deal with that revelation. When confronted by the good news of the Gospel, and the evidence for the truth of Christianity, many would rather mock the messenger than seriously consider and think about the evidence for the truth of Christianity and the eternal importance of God's revelation. This is what saddens me.
We are all one heartbeat away from eternity, and whatever state of relationship with the Lord that we die in, we will remain in for eternity. This is not a video game friends where we get another chance, life, or an opportunity to respawn and do things over.
Rather than search for the truth themselves, many unbelievers would rather just take the advice of a non-believing friend or from something they read on an atheist website and not seriously think about, or research for themselves the truth and how this relates towhat happens after our time in this temporal world ends. They are so wrapped up in their own self pride in this temporal life that they forget that our time on earth is but a grain of sand, a wisp of smoke, compared to eternity.
In their narcissism, they want to tell God how they expect things to be done. They want a holy, just, and righteous God to compromise with their feelings and emotions regarding how things should be done.They want God to "fix everything" to meet their expectations with no obligations on their part.They want God to lower His standards of holiness and righteousness to meet their standards. They want God to intervene and prevent all evil resulting from man's free will without interfering in their free will to reject Him and live in disobedience to His will.They want a one-way street, their way.
These same scoffers will think nothing of changing things about themselves to get a girl or boy to like them.They will readily accept their employers rules to keep their job. But they think nothing of rejecting God's plan for His creation. Funny thing is, these same scoffers will be the first, come judgment day, to say "why didn't someone tell me this", "I didn't know", or "give me another chance".The sad reality is that there will be no second chance.
This attitude is evidence of the damage and destruction that has been wrought on our youth by the indoctrination into the religion of secularism, self-worship, and materialism, that has been visited on our youth by the public indoctrinations centers we call schools and universities, and the rampant moral decline, perversion, and liberalism in our culture.
The Bible is God's progressive revelation to mankind with the central figure being the true living God, revealed through Jesus Christ the Messiah. Understanding the truths it reveals and applying them to our lives and beliefs is the most important thing we will ever do in our lives. We can ignore it, disbelieve it, or pretend it isn't true, but we cannot change it. Our opinion of the truth of the Bible does not determine whether it is the truth or not.Moral relativism is a lie that many have bought into to their own peril.
The entire Bible is the inerrant, inspired, preserved,revelation from God of His interaction and plan for His creation with Jesus Christ as the central revelation.
The Bible is composed of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors, from all walks of life, written in three different languages, on three different continents, all in perfect agreement and revealing a consistent message. The Old Testament contains 39 books written from approximately 1500 to 400 BC, and the New Testament contains 27 books written from approximately 40 to 65 AD.
There is no other book that has ever come close to this remarkable achievement and wisdom. Anyone that reads and studies it and cannot see the inspiration and work of God in the Bible just doesn't want to. Try getting 40 people in the same room or on the same internet thread to agree on something and it will be clear that the Bible is God's inspired, inerrant, and preserved Word. Anyone can pick a verse out of the Bible and try to discredit it but when one openly and honestly looks at all of the evidence for the truth of the Bible in its entirety, only one that chooses to remain in rebellion to the Lord will reject it. It has been said, even by secular psychologists, that if one studies the Sermon on the Mount, in the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew, the excellence of the words and teachings of Jesus in just those verses, surpasses the totality of all thing ever written in the history of man by all psychologists that ever lived. This is overwhelming evidence for the divine inspiration and truth of the Bible as well as the divinity of Christ.
In the Old Testament
The books of Law reveal the foundation for Christ the Messiah
The historical books reveal the preparation for Christ the Messiah
The books poetic books aspire to Christ the Messiah
The books of prophecy reveal the expectation of Christ the Messiah
In the New Testament
The Gospels reveal the historical manifestation of Christ the Messiah
The Acts reveal the propagation of Christ the messiah
The Epistles reveal the interpretation of Christ the Messiah
Revelations reveal the consummation of all things in Christ the Messiah
God has not revealed His entire plan and everything regarding the natural world to man. Man could not possibly comprehend it with our finite mind. He has revealed what He, as our Creator, wants us to know.
The truth, whether anyone wants to accept it or not, is that without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through faith in Him as your Lord and Savior, one is lost. God has lovingly provided a path to salvation in Jesus Christ but He will not force anyone to accept His plan. He respects your free will to choose him or reject Him.He does not want a single person to be lost but he will not force Himself on anyone. The choice is your and yours alone. Make your choice freely and God will be faithful in giving you the destiny you choose.
We are all sinners and unable to save ourselves. There is nothing we can do, no righteous works, that can earn us salvation. Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way. When we sincerely put our faith in Christ, our sins are forgiven and the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.At judgment, we, though yet sinners, we are counted righteous by God based on our faith in Jesus Christ through His blood shed to pay the penalty for our sins, a penalty we deserved to pay but that Christ paid instead for those that put their faith and trust in Him.
Here is the Gospel from the Word of God.
Rom 3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Rom 3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2Pe 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Rom 5:8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Joh 3:16ForGodsolovedtheworld,thathegavehisonly begottenSon,thatwhosoeverbelievethinhimshouldnotperish,buthaveeverlastinglife.
Joh 3:17ForGodsentnothisSonintotheworldtocondemntheworld;butthattheworldthroughhimmightbesaved.
Joh 3:18He that believethonhimisnotcondemned:buthe that believethnotiscondemnedalready,becausehehathnotbelievedinthenameoftheonly begottenSonofGod.
Joh 3:19Andthisisthecondemnation,thatlightiscomeintotheworld,andmenloveddarknessratherthanlight,becausetheirdeedswereevil.
Joh 3:20Forevery onethat doethevilhateththelight,neithercomethtothelight,lesthisdeedsshouldbereproved.
Joh 3:21Buthe that doethtruthcomethtothelight,thathisdeedsmaybemade manifest,thattheyarewroughtinGod.
Act 16:30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Act 16:31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Eph 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: itis the gift of God:
Eph 2:9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Joh 14:6Jesus saith unto him, Iamtheway,thetruth,andthelife:no mancomethuntotheFather,butbyme.
Act 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Jn 5:11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jn 5:12He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1Jn 5:13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Rom 3:24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25Whom God hath set forth tobe a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 10:9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1Ti 2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
1Ti 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Ti 2:5For thereis one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1Ti 2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1Th 5:9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Th 5:10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
You have the good news from the Word of God.I have done my part.The rest is up to you.Please consider what I have shared. I pray that the Holy Spirit will work in your heart to convict you of the truth of God's Word and lead you to salvation in Christ.
God bless
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