Southern Belle
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- Sep 30, 2006
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- Conservative
If you look at God in the Bible like a father, and take the Bible as a whole, you will see everything He's done or promises to do will only mean good. His is the standard, he is Holy, Pure, Light, Love, Rightous Just and trustworthy. He does have his reasons for treating nations the way he did in the OT, but he knows what he is doing whether we understand it or not. Those were real people's lives, and if you read of them, he ALWAYS took care of those who trusted in Him. Of course, not even the Israelites were perfect, so he judged them as he saw fit, and they went back and forth obeying and disobeying, but he hasn't forgotten them. It says some of Israel will be saved, and I think that will be a perfect ending to a perfect story.
We are broken from the inside out. The Bible is the cure for your very being, it speaks right to your soul and tells you what is good and what is right and what isn't. It also lets us know that as humans we just can't achieve true goodness, we just can't because it's physically impossible. God can't let us near him or our flesh would die, and he can't let our sinful selves in heaven to walk around corrupting everything like we corrupted everything down here. Even when we speak to each other, and talk each other into doing something that isn't right, we are the cause of some kind of harm or consquence that happens to someone else. God kicked his most beautiful angel Lucifer out of heaven because of his Pride, because he wanted to be God, and Lucifer, knowing God face-to-face, made his choice, and so did a third of the angels.
Evil is not the opposite of good, evil is the absense of God, just like darkness is the absense of light and cold is the absense of heat. We are seperated from God right now, which is why the world is and has basically always been in turmoil.
Jesus Christ is truly the only way back to the Father, because the wages of sin is death and even the Israelites needed innocent sacrifices to clean their sins until Christ came as the ultimate payment for everyone. He didn't have to, but he loved us and wanted us, even despite all the horrible stuff we do to everything and to each other, and to Him. If you choose Him and His ways, he will come into your heart and care for you as one of His children. He created you, he knows exactly who you are, how you feel and what you need, and he will turn no one away. He's not a religion, he is Goodness itself, and the way to life.
If you think that you need a church or something else besides the work on the Cross, suppose you don't know God and you woke up one day and everyone and everything was gone except for you and a Bible. There were no more churches for you to join, no people to baptize you and no good deeds to do, and all you had was the Bible and Gospel to believe in. Jesus' work would have to be enough for you because everything else wouldn't be able to help. Or, pretend not even the Bible was there, but you had heard the gospel before and that's all you had to go on. It would have to be enough. So simple a child can understand.
I hope anyone who truly wants to find hope and peace, please look to the Bible. Test the morals and charecter of the Bible with any other religion, and there will be some kind of flaw in all the other gods or ways. I've done it myself, none of those other gods even act right, they even sin themselves. God is the true standard.
Sorry if it's kinda rambling but I just wanted to say that.
We are broken from the inside out. The Bible is the cure for your very being, it speaks right to your soul and tells you what is good and what is right and what isn't. It also lets us know that as humans we just can't achieve true goodness, we just can't because it's physically impossible. God can't let us near him or our flesh would die, and he can't let our sinful selves in heaven to walk around corrupting everything like we corrupted everything down here. Even when we speak to each other, and talk each other into doing something that isn't right, we are the cause of some kind of harm or consquence that happens to someone else. God kicked his most beautiful angel Lucifer out of heaven because of his Pride, because he wanted to be God, and Lucifer, knowing God face-to-face, made his choice, and so did a third of the angels.
Evil is not the opposite of good, evil is the absense of God, just like darkness is the absense of light and cold is the absense of heat. We are seperated from God right now, which is why the world is and has basically always been in turmoil.
Jesus Christ is truly the only way back to the Father, because the wages of sin is death and even the Israelites needed innocent sacrifices to clean their sins until Christ came as the ultimate payment for everyone. He didn't have to, but he loved us and wanted us, even despite all the horrible stuff we do to everything and to each other, and to Him. If you choose Him and His ways, he will come into your heart and care for you as one of His children. He created you, he knows exactly who you are, how you feel and what you need, and he will turn no one away. He's not a religion, he is Goodness itself, and the way to life.
If you think that you need a church or something else besides the work on the Cross, suppose you don't know God and you woke up one day and everyone and everything was gone except for you and a Bible. There were no more churches for you to join, no people to baptize you and no good deeds to do, and all you had was the Bible and Gospel to believe in. Jesus' work would have to be enough for you because everything else wouldn't be able to help. Or, pretend not even the Bible was there, but you had heard the gospel before and that's all you had to go on. It would have to be enough. So simple a child can understand.
I hope anyone who truly wants to find hope and peace, please look to the Bible. Test the morals and charecter of the Bible with any other religion, and there will be some kind of flaw in all the other gods or ways. I've done it myself, none of those other gods even act right, they even sin themselves. God is the true standard.
Sorry if it's kinda rambling but I just wanted to say that.