Time & Eternity

Answering a question about which religion has the most evidence, a friend answered: “I don’t understand how logically Christianity can beat Islam. If you consider the amount of supernatural stuff that each religion contains in its dogma Christianity is a strict superset of Islam. All the hokey magic stuff in Islam is in Christianity plus more. So it follows it is less scientifically plausible.” Like many others, my friend automatically equates ‘scientific evidence’ to ‘evidence’.… Read More »The natural and the spiritual

Human-centered religion does not work, because it is not the truth. True faith is God-centered. Be wary if you’re receiving religious teachings that are centered around ‘human improvement’, be it self-improvement or improvement of others. The fact that such teachings come with a religious cover by acknowledging that we shall do it with some help from God does not change the human-centered nature of the teachings. We yearn for eternity because “we will see God”… Read More »Human-centered religion does not work

Two great mysteries in Christ From Genesis to Revelation, there is one thought that runs through the Bible, that God has a plan. Not only does this plan include man, but man plays a key role in it, being of critical importance in God’s plan. (“Man” represents both male and female, see Adam, man and woman.) The end of man, as revealed in the Bible, including the Gospels, the apostolic epistles, and finally the book… Read More »Friends of the Bridegroom

The book of Job in the Bible is especially meaningful when read in conjunction with the Gospels. Here, two different stages in the plan and heart of God’s salvation are stated, and in between is inserted the entire history of Israel, the age of the Law. Although the book of Job comes after the books of the law in the Bible, the events in the book took place in a time before the law was… Read More »Job and people of the heavenly kingdom

None of the books in the Bible were written because something happened by chance first, and God found it interesting enough to record it and put it in the Bible. All of them were done according to God’s plan. God’s plan was that man, who was temporarily smaller than the angels, would receive the life of the Son of God in Jesus Christ and become sons of God to glorify God, the Creator of all… Read More »Job and his friends

What does it really mean to believe in Jesus Christ and be a Christian? What is the point of believing anyway, when everyone has one life to live and expects death, a common end? Why does God care so much about whether we believe or not? There is a common misconception behind these questions: that faith is a subjective idea that originates in a person’s mind, which is human, and therefore, its meaning is found only in… Read More »God’s Plan and the History of Man