I had already come to see that parts of it contradicted one another, that there were historical implausibilities, and mistakes of various kinds.įor me at that stage, the Bible was not so much the words God had given his human authors as it was a book that was written with real religious insight by special authors whose words were a medium through which God could deliver his message to humans. I still thought that in *some* sense it was the Word of God, but I did not think that it was infallible or true in every way. I was becoming socially quite liberal, and was starting to take a more liberal view of the Bible. The church I was attending was evangelical, but I was moving away from a conservative theology and its strict, literal interpretation of the Bible. It’s a pretty funny story.Īt the time I was still a church going Christian. The believer's waiting to meet the One who gave us life.Discussing the mythology found in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 has made me remember something that happened some 35 years ago. The non-Christian is waiting for the end of life and doom. Yeah, but to the Christian it's something we look forward to. If you really believe that, you couldn't even look at your watch without wondering if it was going to happen now.
I'll say one thing, anybody who's left here is going to need it. The good around us still has the support of the spirit of God. See we just don't know what it would be like to live in a world like that. And the evil one the Bible calls the antichrist or the beast, will rule supreme. That means a whole new ball game, only this time with no rules, evil will just take over.
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Well for example, the Bible says that right now the spirit of God is holding back the full force of evil in the world, but after the believers go, the spirit will too. After that it's going to be pretty awful here on Earth. One of these days and it could be any minute now, Christ is going to come back for His own. When they asked Him, even Jesus said that He didn't know the exact time. Gone where? It's alright honey, it's alright. Sandy had to go to her aunt's so I came home early. And surely this serves to remind us that the time is short at best, and if we would be followers of Jesus Christ, we must join His band now. Well from our studies in the past few weeks, we can conclude that we're living now in the end times, the days in which we live are seeing many prophecies being fulfilled that we have never seen fulfilled before. In the meantime his wife had awakened out of her sleep and discovered her husband was gone, turned on the light, found his pajama tops, and was immediately convinced that the rapture had taken place and that she had been left behind. I'm reminded of a neighbor I had back in Nebraska who got up one night in the middle of the night, took off his pajama tops and went downstairs for some ice tea. When you received his blood, that saved your life. HIS blood had the cure.Įxactly, HIS blood had the cure. There was no way your body could produce the antibodies that were needed to fight that poison.
Look at it this way, what chance did you have of making it after your accident? Well Jim you have to understand there are times when God uses circumstances in our lives, to bring us into a closer relationship with Himself. I think I understand, but where does love fit in? How could a God who loved me cause me to go through what I did? It's true that God IS love, and that God is holy, but God will also punish sin. God is love, and He's not going to destroy us because we can't help doing wrong, is He? Well, maybe not, but my minister says we don't have to get all hung up on that theology stuff.
But we, well actually you, broke that relationship when you didn't choose Christ. God made us for Himself, that He might enjoy us, and that we might enjoy Him, and also that we might enjoy each other. I'm as good as the next person, maybe better. It's all beyond me, I've been raised in the church, taught to do the best I can, to believe in God and hope for the best, what else is there? I mean I'm good.
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