Jesus is our lord and savior

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Self-anointed Bible expert, without a friggin proper cite on hand.
 
Q: How can people say that one religion is better than any other religion? Religion is just a matter of personal preference, as far as I'm concerned, and what works for you might not work for someone else. In my opinion, "truth" doesn't have anything to do with religion (or anything else, for that matter). — P.D.



A: Dear P.D.,
I respect your right to your opinion, but I sincerely hope you will be open to reconsidering it. Elsewhere, you make it clear that you don't want anything to do with God and this is the real issue you face.

Let me ask you a question: Do you honestly think everything in life is just a matter of personal opinion, and there is no such thing as truth? I doubt it. When you get on an airplane, do you care if the pilot believes it makes a difference whether or not he lets down the landing gear? When you get a prescription filled, do you care if the pharmacist thinks it makes a difference what pills he gives you? I suspect you do.

Here's the point: We don't need to guess about God, or wonder what He is like. He has revealed the truth about Himself to us. How has He done this? One way is through the world we see around us.

But He revealed Himself most clearly in a way that staggers our imagination: He became a man! That is who Jesus was: God in human flesh. The Bible says, "For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him" (Colossians 1:19). Do you honestly want to know what God is like? Look at Christ. Don't let anything your pride, or sin, or anything else keep you from Him.
 
As I read the Bible, I find love to be the supreme and dominant attribute of God. The promises of God’s love and forgiveness are as real, as sure, as positive, as human words can make them. But the total beauty of the ocean cannot be understood until it is seen, and it is the same with God’s love. Until you actually experience it, until you actually possess it, no one can describe its wonders to you.

Never question God’s great love, for it is as unchangeable a part of God as His holiness. Were it not for the love of God, none of us would ever have a chance in the future life. But God is love! And His love for us is everlasting.

Have you ever felt real love?
 
What is conscience? God has put within each one of us something that cries aloud against us, whenever we do that which we know to be wrong. Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression. Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act, is held up for either censure or approval.

I believe there is no greater argument for the existence of God in the world today than conscience. There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man. Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.
 
The world’s millions could come down to the beach and reach out their hands to be filled with sea water. They could each take as much as they wanted, as much as they needed—and still the ocean would remain unchanged. Its might and power would be the same, the life in its unfathomable depths would continue unaltered, although it had supplied the needs of every single person standing with outstretched hands along its shores.

So it is with God. He can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.
 
The word “mystery” is used many times in Scripture. Some of the mysteries of the past have been fathomed by science. Others still bewilder mankind. This fact remains: All of the garnered wisdom of the ages is only a scratch on the surface of man’s search for the knowledge of the universe. For the most part, God retains His secrets, and man standing on his intellectual tiptoes can comprehend only a small fraction of the Lord’s doings.

This inability to comprehend fully the mysteries of God does not in any way curtail the Christian faith. On the contrary, it enhances our belief. We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us. A “mystery” in Scripture is a previously hidden truth now divinely revealed, but in which a supernatural element remains unknown despite the revelation.
 
There is much in our nature that perplexes us. Many people are disturbed as they confront the troubling riddle of their own existence. They are bewildered by their proneness to sin and evil. They quake and tremble at the thought of their inability to cope with their own lives.

Christ can give you satisfying answers to such questions as “Who am I?” “Why was I born?” “What am I doing here?” “Where am I going?” All of the great questions of life can be measured when you come by faith to Jesus Christ and receive Him as your Lord. Let Him be your Pilot. He can take away the worry from your life.
 
Just a quick comment to everyone here, i have 4 people that have read my thread from the start and now they are true christians. they read what i had to say along with sending me privae messages wanting to know things.
These 4 gave their life to jesus christ and are all filled with the holy ghost! they told me they finally can feel peace and happiness. thanks everyone, Frank
 
Do you think that God would have bothered to send His Son to the world, if man had been able to face life and eternity alone? Christ’s coming to the world proved that God was not happy with man’s unhappiness. He sent Him not only that we might have eternal life but that we might have life here and now, and that we might have it more abundantly—Life with a capital L!

Jesus’ teaching was unique and different. He took religion out of the theoretical category and placed it in the practical. He spoke with authority! He spoke with finality! He spoke as though He knew . . . and He did! His was not the soft empty conjecture of the philosopher, who professes to search for truth—but readily admits he has never found it. It was more the confident voice of the mathematician who gives his answers unhesitatingly, because the proof of the answers can be found within the problem.
 
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