Can one man change the world?

Question

A revolutionist perhaps like Christ. You know, pardon me for saying such inane thoughts, but did Christ change anything? Has the Bible helped mankind in any way shape or form? Too many inane questions:
1. Was there goodness or free will before the Bible? Or was man a slave to evil men and women?
2. Does a man's sanity relate to the Bible in any way, shape, or form?
3. Does the Bible affect the world itself, including its value as well as the value of human life?
4. How long before the world remembers the world they live in is just a way of life made from our ancestors, then discover that its foundation is infinitely hollow?
5. We're surround by ageless inherited beliefs and inventions / technology. It has changed our life style, our fashion, but not the world. Not at all. So my final question is in a form of multiple questions.
Is change in existence?
Can perfection change?
Can imperfection change?
Can you change what is not there?
Can you change the world?

Does God change?
Does Satan change?
Has man stopped making mistakes?
"You can't change the world, you can only believe it's not there, because it is not there." Apparently, you cannot change what isn't there.

Answer 1

there's an old semitic story goes: once lived a little rabbi. when he was young, he sought to change the world. but world is so big and rabbi is so little, how can he hope to change it? so, rabbi decided to change his town. but the town is so big and rabbi is so little, how can he hope to do so? so, rabbi decided to change his family. but the family is so large while rabbi is so little, so he failed again. so, he changed the only little thing he could - himself, which changed the family and the town and entire world.

what still is still. illusions change. numerous mirror shards reflect the sunlight and people dance with them and chase them as real. they do not wish to see why the reflections are there and why they chase them. they know nothing but the dancing. how can you explain what blue color is to a blind? one must be wiling to see to discover this.

yet your attempt to fish one of the many deserves every respect.

emptiness

Answer 2

1) Christ was the son of God and his birth death and resurrection changed everything!.

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of His Divine manhood. While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a Cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying—and that was His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Such was His human life—He rises from the dead. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the Centerpiece of the human race and the Leader of the column of progress. I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One Solitary Life. --James C. Hefley

or even from a man that didn't believe he was the saviour!

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.--H.G. Wells

C.S. Lewis was an atheist and after many long debates with JRR Tolkein and looking at the Bible and Jesus accepted Jesus as saviour and in Mere Christianity gave more than this, you should read it.

"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."--C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)


2) A man is given a choice of whether to believe or deny what is in the Bible and based on his belief in God, Jesus and the repentance of his sins his eternity is decided.

3) The Bible and the language of the Bible affect even the speech that most people, just as literature it is an extremely important book.

4) ?

5) Change occurs around us daily and even by the second. God and Jesus do not change and are the rock we can build our lives on in this speeding river of life. Many choose to try it on their own and are just swept along through life without benefit, cause or even hope.

In the end the most we can do is to try and improve our own small part of the world and help those we can in other parts of the world. That is what Christian organizations like Compassion, Samaritans Purse and World Vision try to do every day, improve the world! Each of them was founded by ONE person's idea and have grown from there. Just read the Bible, if you are in God's will one man can change anything. Samson killed thousands of Phillistines with a donkeys jaw, David and a sling and stone paniced and started the enemy to running when he killed Goliath, Elijah stood upto 450 prophets of Baal and at the end of the day only he was still alive, etc.


Here are a few links I grabbed off Ravi Zacharius's web page. He is a leading Christian apologist and a favourite of mine to listen to.

Answer 3

Has G-d changed? He could if he wanted. Now, the writing in the Torah is not the same G-d as in the Christian Bible. He is a much nicer being. I am not sure that means a thing.
Satan? What change would he need make?
Change in existence, very much so. We change all the time. Some things get better, some worse.
Perfection cannot change. It is or it isn't perfect. Now, can opinion change? Yes. Does that change perfection? First you have to show me perfection.
Imperfection can be changed to improve it.
Yes, you can change something that is not there. Your mind.
No, I cannot change the world. Still, I have influence some change and possibly over 10,000 years that might have a lasting impact.

Answer 4

Oh my gosh it's the Old Woman in the Shoe. But she is absolutely right!

Tiger Woods is changing the Golf World.
Michael Jordan changed basketball.
Madeline O'Hara took God out of school
Mahatma Gandhi liberated India from colonialism peacefully
Albert Einstein helped create the atom bomb.
From Abraham came 3 religions
Jesus Christ saved mankind from their sins.

History is replete with "one person" changing the then known world around them. What can I say about the Wright Brothers or Thomas Edison and his phone?.

The only constant is change.
Each of us change in life. Can I change the world? No. But I might change one man. And it's something about perspective. Because to the world you are one person. But to someone who loves you, you are the entire world.

Answer 5

the worldwide ameliorations simply by fact of wars, failures, climate, technologies, innovation. This has been happening for ever and in background there are infinite person men and females people who're considered in cost for changing the worldwide. in my view of the worldwide that's what i want to propose with the aid of worldwide substitute. So we are actually not talking approximately that form of substitute. we are keeping there's a distinctive view of the worldwide and that could desire to wish to alter for one man or woman, you or me. I somewhat have an journey, learn some element, I somewhat have an concept, and that i'm thoroughly distinctive. I thoroughly substitute and that's a metamorphosis interior the worldwide. yet while it is not a worldwide substitute, then there replaced into no definitely substitute. It replaced into in actuality my view of the worldwide that replaced, and this petty view is continuously changing and it would be an considerable, historic, substitute, like an comparable wars, suffering, and violence, yet that's no longer any substitute in any understand. Do you observe? if it is in uncomplicated words my substitute interior the way i do subject concerns, the way i think of, it is no longer substitute. when I see i'm petty, egocentric, grasping, desiring substitute, and that i see it with the middle, intelligently, I see thoroughly i'm the worldwide, and that's a metamorphosis.

Answer 6

If someone answered ALL of these questions for you--Would believe them. NO So why do you want anyone waste their time and your time reading the answers. These are more discussion questions--not really an answer to them. Right.?? Good Luck in finding your answers.

Answer 7

I personaly didn'tt hink he cahnged anything. The bible was ntohing but war and murder. Those who were wrong, evil, or sinners were just killed, and there were more of those people to take the deads place. ITs just an endless cycle, people will always bee the same unless there is some chemical change in our brain that forces us to accept and love.