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?


Thursday, May 1, 2014

Reasons For Reading A Chronological Bible

By Tracie Knight


Various reactions have been evidenced from the various versions of the Chronological Bible that are in circulation today. Most people think that some of these versions do not reflect the order of events as they really occurred. Instead, they haphazardly put stories none after the other leading to possible confusion readers.

Another category of people hold the opinion that the only credible version is that of the Jewish religion popularly known as the Septuagint in the original Hebrew language. According to them, the true doctrine can only be derived from this document and none other. They have a different concept of the Messiah. Abraham is the patriarch and the Messiah has not yet arrived since Abrahams time. Belief in Jesus as the Christ is therefore baloney in their view.

Those who are followers of Jesus Christ know very well that He is the son of God who came to save us from sin. It is however quite unfortunate that a good majority do not mind to follow the genealogy of his birth recorded in the first chapters of St. Luke. Our Muslim brothers can thus easily confuse them that Maria mother of Isa is Mary mother of Jesus.

To escape falling victim to such misguided and baseless teaching of confusion, it is advisable for you to carry out frequent personal study. Going to church on worship day only is not enough. It is good to attend worship services and listen to how the scripture is interpreted. However, you should also go ahead and conduct personal study from which you can get a lot of information. For example, it is one thing to know that in John 11:35 The Lord wept and another to discover the cause of His anguish in this particular setting.

Such a study might be made possible in various ways. The common goal, though, is finishing all the Biblical books in record time with considerable understanding. A plan for this kind of reading can be found in the back pages depending on the version you are reading. Book shops can also come handy since they have many options to choose from; for instance, you might choose to go topical.

You can also find Bibles that are ordered according to sequence of occurrence of events based on Theological research. They give a wealth of information and new revelations about issues that might have seemed complex or hard to understand. A good example is the Pauline epistles. Theologians argue that their order in the famous versions is distorted and thus they become hard to follow.

A chronological arrangement of the scripture does not only consider the order in which books occur but also scriptural arrangement. This is expertly done so that the whole Bible forms a complete sequential story. From Genesis through to revelation, one can describe for instance the story about the Israelites; prophesies about Jesus Christ, his birth, life and resurrection.

After indulging in a study of that nature, it becomes clear that the main subject of discussion throughout the Bible is Jesus Christ. All other persons and occurrences are peripheral to Him. Prophesies of Micah, Zechariah and Isaiah were fulfilled by and in Him. He was physically born, died and his resurrection is an epitome of hope to believers all over the world.




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