Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Saturday, November 26, 2011

Jesus Teachings on Discipleship

By Mercy Nikenya


Jesus had called disciples to help him in his works, he chose folks of different classes with no regard for their status in the society. Indeed His first followers were fishermen who were less regarded in the Jewish society. Jesus had to tell them what true discipleship was as they could miss to understand the real meaning of it and believe that they had a better chance in entering the kingdom of heaven. Have you read about discipleship in Christian forums or other christian websites?

Does it mean that one is free from all troubles of the world by being a disciple of Jesus Christ? Many people desired to be followers of Jesus Christ thinking that they had a better chance of inheriting the kingdom of heaven, as they associated themselves with the son of God, but what did Jesus teach them about true discipleship?

One was to be prepared to leave everything; Jesus told them that they ought to be ready to leave everything of their possession, including their families, wealth and anything they valued. John, James and peter were prepared to leave their nets and their work of fishing to follow Jesus. Like his true disciples who abandoned their works to follow him, we should too be ready to do so. By that I mean we ought to be ready to put God's work first.

One was expected to show love for all; true discipleship required one to be of great love for all, Jesus showed love for all, he spent most of his time with sinners than spiritual leaders, this made people to nick-name him 'a friend of sinners.' He comments in the Luke's gospel that one had to have love for his brother, his own wife and children and even love oneself to qualify to be his disciple. He asked them to love their enemies and pray for them; do you show love for all people despite some of them being your enemies?

Jesus guaranteed them to expect rejection and opposition; a true disciple was expected to face opposition and rejection from the people around them. Like when a friend retires from a wicked group and searches for deliverance, the members will say all sorts of bad things about her or him and even hate him/her. Similar to the mission of evangelizing the word of God to other folks, the disciples were told to expect cruel times and conditions, as not all people could allow them in their land and welcome them in their homes.

They were expected to give freely and expect nothing in return; a real disciple of Jeus was expected to perform works of charity to those in need and expect nothing in return, like in the example of John and Peter when they healed the person at Jerusalem temple's entrance, they went and did it for no payment as this was God given, it should not be charged for in exchange. Christians should too do the same and avoid trading on the gifts given by them.




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Through All World History God Has Fundamentally Unveiled Himself To Human beings In A Reasonably Obnubilate Way

By Neil Baulch


Part 7. That is the reason why God does not show Himself completely to us, to the point at which there's no longer any doubt about His existence and character, because if He came as a super hero with all His capabilities and displayed them in public then all humankind would know without question that He existed and would follow Him for fear of going to hell. (I will explain what 'hell' is in a later article) Where is the real relationship in that? Or the genuine religion?

God is a god of faith, it takes effort to believe and we are to be the equivalent. When you study it, where would the pleasure be, in everyone telling you that they adore you and want to be with you, desperate of fear - simply to fend off hell? I desire my children to obey my directions because they honour and love me not because they're terrified.

This is why God has shown Himself to man through history (see timeline) in a comparatively little way, and why Jesus, when He came, came as a servant and not a super hero in an impressive way to blind all humankind forever.

Some say to me "Oh, I believe in God but I don't need to go to church to prove it." Sure, going to church doesn't prove that we have a belief in God, but the actual problem here is - to believe in God is to Act, it is not something passive. Say, for-instance, you did a great thing for another person at massive expense to yourself, you would expect some type of gratitude and recognition. God also , having paid a great price for us, expects some type of appreciation - He expects us to give over our life to working for Him and His plan for mankind.

I need to explain that when I quote the Bible, I am I am referencing God's words, not just some ancient book that has suffered many trials over the centuries and is now an undependable list or diverse old mens imagination's. A dependable Bible timeline chart will exhibit the consistency of what I am saying. (I can provide you with evidence of the genuineness of the Bible as being from God if you want to see it). The Bible calls itself the 'Living Words of God ' in one Timothy 3 16 in the NT.




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