Originally posted by karoly aczel
"God will reveal 'himself'". Why not just leave it at that.
So all other religons and claims of dieties of God are fake? Despite huge followings like christianity? Despite historical evidence?
You know what, I never lie either but I dont think myself the son of God . (anymore than say...you)
I resent statements like 'whoever doesn't believe Him ...[text shortened]... the 'space-brothers' would look down and smile and say "All is well with the Earth"
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And, my contention is you can never really trust anyone else until you can trust yourself.
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You may trust yourself and do many evil things. You may leave many wounded and hurt people behind you though you trusted yourself.
To take an extreme example, Hitler trusted himself very strongly. Who had more self confidence that Adolf Hitler? His trust in himself and in the motherland of Germany was huge.
But look at the tragic trail of human suffering, wreckage, and death he left. What did Hitler's gigantic self trust do for the world ?
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And if you truly trust yourself then you have no need to trust Jesus because you will know the he and you are of the same essence.
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Well, I think I need to trust in Jesus Christ. That is because Jesus Christ is unique among all human beings as the only Person totally absolute for the will of God, His Father.
No man (and there were a lot of good examples ) lived unto God with no thought of what it meant to himself, as Jesus did. He was absolute for the will of the Father.
So I need to trust such a Lord and Savior as Jesus. And the good news is that He is available for me today. But even more than that. His life can enter into my being, mingle with me, blend with me, and He can live again on the earth, but this time in me.
This is more than marvelous. This is more than revelutionary. Christ can live in me. Because ....
"the last Adam became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45)
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And the 'space-brothers' would look down and smile and say "All is well with the Earth"
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The space brothers, whoever they are, are mistaken.
We are on the TITANIC - proud, thinking we'll never go down, totally headed for damnation. And as the Gospel states we need to be saved.
You shoud view the world today as being the Titanic headed for a tragic cataclysmic rupture and sinking. Multitudes are ignorant of the disaster ahead of them. We are being warned in the Bible.
Or think of it this way. The holiness of God, the righteousness judgment of God , and the glory of God is to a sinful world like a hydrogen bomb.
The redemptive love of Jesus the Son of God is the only safe bomb shelter. The Bible urges us to come into the shelter.