The truth or a lie?

The truth or a lie?

The apostle John writes,

"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.  

The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.  

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.  

We write this to make our joy complete." 1John 1:1-4.

John makes it clear that he was writing his letter to tell about all he heard and all he had seen with his own eyes about Jesus.

John in his writings makes it clear he believes Jesus is the Son of God. That he is God incarnate. In his gospel he writes about Jesus whom he calls the Word saying,

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  

He was with God in the beginning. 

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  

In him was life, and that life was the light of men....

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. ” John 1:1-4,14.

According to John Jesus created all things. He makes it clear that “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” 

John is clear that the creator of the world became flesh and dwelt among mankind. That he has seen “the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

That being said. Here is something to think about.

If what John is saying here is a lie. Then it is the greatest lie ever in the history of humanity. A lie that close to three billion people in the world today believe. And millions if not billions have gone to the grave believing.

For me I believe what a person believes about Jesus has eternal consequences.

As the same time I cannot force what I believe on anyone. Everyone must decide for themselves what they believe about Jesus. All I would ask however is that before anyone makes a decision about Jesus, is that they at least read the New Testament.

Please think about it.

On Faith

On faith

“He spreads out the northern  skies  over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”
                                             Job 26:7
When I see the above picture of the earth taken by Apollo 17 from the moon. I am amazed at the accuracy of Job’s statement over two thousand years prior to Apollo going to the moon.
I am reminded that God created this beautiful blue dot. The writer of Genesis stating,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                                       Genesis 1:1.
In another picture taken from the Voyager space probe 6,054,587,000 Kilometres from earth we are shown yet again how small earth is in the vastness of the universe.
Yet that “mote of dust” as Carl Sagan called it is our home.
Carl Sagan wrote,
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
                                                                          Carl Sagan
Sagan of course is right. That tiny speck in the universe is all we have. That is if you think of it from a purely human prospective.
There is however more than this world. I know Sagan and all who do not believe in God would disagree with me. After all it seems far more logical to us that if there is a God, why would he not simply reveal himself directly to us?
The answer is simple. He requires us to if you will take a more difficult path. A path that shows our love and loyalty to Him. The path of faith.
The writer of Hebrews defines faith as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” 
                                                                                                                          Hebrews 11:1
Going on to say,
“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.
It’s not like God did not leave us any evidence that he exists, He did.
He set the earth, that “mote of dust” we live on at the perfect position not only in the solar system but in the universe. A position that allows life as we know it to exist.
Also throughout history he has sent his prophets to tell the world about Him.
God has set I believe in each persons heart the knowledge that there is life beyond the grave.
History stands as a testament to this belief. All societies throughout history have had rituals designed to help the departed enter the next life. The majority of people that have ever lived have believed in God.
Additionally He himself in the form of His one and only Son Jesus Christ came into the world to point our way to heaven.
John the apostle wrote,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. ....
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 
                                                                                             John 1:1-5, 10-14.
Now I know Atheist and others do not believe the words of John. But then to believe that God created the universe and everything in it. To believe He entered the world He created takes faith.
And to have faith in anything especially God is a very difficult thing to do.
Please think about it.