The Horrors of Evolution (Evolution)

by edinburgh04 , edinburgh, Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 11:58 (5916 days ago) @ dhw

Love and Obedience? - "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Matt 22:40 - The motivation for the things we do must be love. The commandments help us to see when we are not loving a person. e.g. if we are stealing from them, coveting their positions or sleeping with their wife. Obeying the law moral law laid out in the Bible does not produce love. It is possible to live a selfless life and not love. - If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Cor 13:3-8 - So keeping an eye on your moral life only is one instrument that tells us if we are walking with God. If you are breaking the law you are not loving but if you are keeping the law you still need to check your attitude. - People often ask if God is good why is their evil in the world? and if God is love why is there hell? - I'd say the answer is this there is evil in the world because loves us and does not want to destroy us. - The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 2 Peter 3:9-10 - There is hell because God is good and can let evil go on for ever. - For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead." Acts 17:31 - This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. Romans 2:16 - God has to destroy our sin because he is good. He asks us to step away from it if we refuse we will be destroyed with it. - Sincere belief in an of itself is not a good thing a man may believe he can cure his headache by drilling a hole in his head and another may believe an aspirin will do the trick. Both may be equally sincere in their belief but the results will be very different. The one who drills a hole in his head may die this is very unfortunate but not unfair. - The difference between Christianity and every other religion is the other religions say we can get to God by being good enough. Christianity says we have already blown it, the only way we can get to God is if he makes a way. - No amount of good we do will out weigh the wrong we have done. Imagine a doctor who saves the life of one of his patients on Monday. But on Tuesday he gets angry with his wife and kills her. The police try to arrest him and he says why are you arresting me? I killed one person but saved the life of another. On balance I'm still a good person. - If God gave his only son Jesus to die for us so that we can be saved and we reject that, God has no obligation to accept our attempts at salvation. - how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? Heb 2:3

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 - Islam say God has no Son, nor does he have need of one.