Friday, December 29, 2006

not particularly relevant to my life ... ultimately -updated

We've got lots of choices as believers, but we have no choice at all when it comes to acknowledging that Christ's literal resurrection from the dead was real and actually happened.

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith."
1 Corinthians 15:15

If Christ wasn't raised from the dead then there's not much to add, except that believers have been deceived for 2000 years by the legend of the only man who was crucified for teaching Forgiveness, that God is Love ... the only man who had the audacity to call himself The Son of God and The Prince of Peace.

Christ's resurrection is the pivotal event of all up till now ... even for non-believers and atheists. Whether a man who called himself the Messiah was raised from the dead by the supernatural being he called his Father would certainly answer forever any question about whether God exists.

Atheists seem pretty smug about dismissing or even ridiculing believers for embracing decreipt superstitions and worshipping an invisible sky-man ...

If you're a skeptic, or are convinced there is no God, you've elevated yourself to god-status and crowned yourself a supreme co-owner of the universe ... as divine as any other thing ... and have granted yourself the wisdom and authority to assign purpose to this cause or no purpose to that one ... and left yourself free to frolic through your reign in your personal kingdom with no ultimate consequence or purpose whatsoever.

Because ultimately nothing matters.

"When we reject belief in God we must give up the idea that life on this planet has some preordained meaning." - Peter Singer


Denying the existence of a divine authority greater than yourself defines your life, your death, as well as everything you know and every person you care about, as ultimately meaningless and no more important than a passing gust of wind. So for you there's really no reason to read any further because you're already convinced nothing ultimately matters.

If you do believe Christ was who he said he was and that God literally raised Jesus from the dead, but aren't living totally, completely and absolutely for him ... then I've gotta ask, What else will God have to do in your life to get your attention?




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