If you suddenly discover someday that everything in the Bible (Old and New Testament) is 100% true, what will you do next? Where are you going to spend eternity when you die?
(For those of you who are responding that reject the Bible and its teachings, I would want to be 100% sure that everything that Bible says and the Bible itself is not real, because if you're wrong, eternity is a very long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time).
2007-05-25
22:16:11
·
9 answers
·
asked by
mj456a
3
in
Society & Culture
➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's sad, many people have the answer, but choose not to accept it.
2007-05-25
22:53:14 ·
update #1
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." - John 3:16-21
2007-05-26
21:04:03 ·
update #2
Since God planned for us to have peace and real life right now, why are so many people hurting or angry inside????
Our Problem...Separation From God:
God created us in His own image so we can know Him personally and have a joy-filled life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him, but gave us free will and a freedom of choice. Since the beginning of time (from Adam & Eve first eating of the forbidden fruit to down throughout the ages of mankind and right up to you), we (everyone in the human race) have chosen to disobey God (we all sin) and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God and ends in misery.
The Bible says: "All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's holiness". (Romans 3:23).
"The result of unforgiven sin is death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord". (Romans 6:23).
2007-05-26
21:08:29 ·
update #3
Disobeying God (sinning) results in being separated from Him and unless we repent (asking God to forgive us of all of our sins) we will die (a spiritual death. A fate far worse than any physical death could ever be). Despite all of our best attempts nothing can never unite us with God. Nothing we can ever do or ever hope to do can ever repay our debt of sin. Because God is a just & righteous God and God cannot deny himself (God cannot speak any lies or do anything evil because those things are against his nature and character), sin must be punished. The punishment for all sins is death and only Jesus Christ has conquered this power over death. Through the ages, people have tried many ways to bridge this gap and to try to reach God -- without any success, ever.
The Bible says: "Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die". (Romans 5:12).
"You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead". (Proverbs 14:12)
2007-05-26
21:09:56 ·
update #4
God's Remedy...The Cross:
Jesus Christ is the only answer to this problem. Nothing else in the world can solve this problem but Jesus. He is the only one who can bring us back to God. He died on the Cross and rose from the grave, paying the penalty for our sin and bridging the gap between God and all people.
The Bible says: “There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God”. (1 Timothy 2:5).
“Christ died once for our sins. An innocent person died for those who are guilty. Christ did this to bring you to God”. (1 Peter 3:18).
We do not deserve such love & grace and nothing can ever repay it, but God loves us all so very much that he gave the gift of Jesus to take all of our punishment for us in order to bring us closer to God.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
God has provided the only way we must make a choice.
2007-05-26
21:15:10 ·
update #5