Thank you for taking the time to read this message, I appreciate it! - I’d love to share this amazing news with you, but first, there is some bad news, here, take a test. Where are you going when you die? Do you think your a good person? If so... * How many lies have you told? * Have you ever stolen anything despite its value? * Have you fornicated or entertained lustful thoughts (aka. committed adultery-of-the-heart)? * Maybe you’ve never gone so far as to murder someone, but have you simply harboured hatred for another human being (aka. committed murder-of-the-heart)? * Have you desperately longed for something you do not own, or that someone else possesses? (covet) * Have you taken God’s holy and awesome name in vain, using it as a swear-word? (blasphemy), Have you remembered the sabbath day? There are some of the Ten Commandments. Now, if God were to Judge you on the Ten Commandments, would you be innocent or guilty? The Results You and me, we have both broke God’s laws, we would be guilty, none are good but God. Since the fall of man, it is now embedded into our very nature to be dreadfully sinful, utterly disobedient, and outrageous rebels. Romans 3:23 says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. God is Holy and Just and will condemn guilty sinners, just as a Just Judge must condemn someone guilty of a crime. The Consequence God’s law clearly displays our wickedness and the problem we have with sin. His standard of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3-17) expose our sinfulness. Romans 6:23 informs us of the wages of sin — death. By disobeying God who is Holy, Righteous, Just, Perfect, Sovereign, Eternal, by breaking His laws, we have earned death for ourselves (spiritually, physically, and perpetually for eternity). That was the bad news; Now we know nothing can create intelligent design, order, conscience, morality, but an external greater force, (Almighty God) can. Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: People know God exists, but suppress the truth in unrighteousness, John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Some sources for Jesus: 500+ witnesses, 24000+ manuscripts, fulfillment of Biblical Prophecies, historical, archeological, scientific data, 9 ancient sources, Holy Scripture, etc. The Lord Jesus Christ's resurrection shows that the Lord Jesus Christ is the one and only way, truth, and the life. HERE IS THE + GOOD NEWS! + The Ultimate Sacrifice and Victory Though we’ve lied, stolen, blasphemed, lusted, and broke all God’s laws, and will be justly condemned to Hell if we remain in our sins, God is the God of Love whose mercy endureth forever, God does not want any to perish but for all to come to repentance, so God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, (God manifested in the flesh), to suffer the wrath of God we deserved, then Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day conquering sin death and the grave! God offers salvation as a free gift, amazing Grace! Our Response When we repent of our sins and trust fully in the Saviour to rescue us from our own sinfulness, we become new creations! “The old has gone, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17)! Along with inheriting our new identity as a Christian, a child of God, an ambassador for the Lord, we are assured a place in Heaven and gain the desire and power to battle sin. Whereas before, we were held captive to sin, utterly powerless and given zero reason even to fight against it, now, we are slaves to Christ and His righteousness (Romans 6:18). This is where true freedom begins! But, what exactly does repentance mean? And what does it look like to trust Christ exclusively. Repentance is to reject your old sinful ways of living and make a 180-turn towards God and His good, righteous character/statutes. It means we feel the weight of our guilt before God and respond by sincerely apologizing for our wickedness, thanking Him for His pardon through the blood of Jesus, and living the rest of our lives to please Him — and Him alone. To trust Christ is to understand that only He has the power and authority to rescue you from your sin. No amount of good deeds will save you; only His redeeming blood-sacrifice will. Not one person will make it to Heaven because of something they did. The credit for our salvation belongs entirely to the Lord. So, love Him! “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30) because of Who He is and what He has done for us. Summary To sum it up, here is a brief message of the Gospel: You’ve sinned; I’ve sinned; we’ve all sinned. Every single one of us needs saving and we can’t save ourselves; there is no possibility of earning our way to Heaven. Jesus Christ, the blameless Messiah, — truly God & truly man — humbled Himself as a servant on Earth and died a horrible death, paying the penalty we rightfully deserved for our own sin. Three days later, He conquered sin/death once-and-for-all by resurrecting from the grave. Now, through Christ’s death and victory, we can be made alive (no longer spiritually dead). He paid our ransom, our fine, and triumphed over the power of sin so that we could do the same, following after Him. What do you need to do to receive this precious, totally undeserved gift of salvation? Repent and believe (Mark 1:15). Turn away from sin, reject your old way of life and place the entirety of your trust in Jesus Christ. Humble yourself. Quit being prideful, relying upon your own good deeds to get you through. Understand that He is the only way to Heaven and put your faith in Him alone to save you. Thank you for taking the time to read it, the person reading this, I care about you so much and there is nothing more important than your salvation, and God wants you to come to salvation. Peace be with you. Love you!
Some quotes, not needed beause everyone knows God exists, but here anyway. I care for you, please humbly put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
This view [that Jesus didn’t exist] is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. …. Most of its proponents are also extraordinarily incompetent.
Maurice Casey, Nottingham University, in Jesus of Nazareth
Today, nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.
The late Graham Stanton, Cambridge University, in The Gospels and Jesus
Biblical scholars and classical historians now regard it [the theory that Jesus didn’t exist] as effectively refuted.
Robert Van Voorst, Western Theological Seminary, in Jesus outside the New Testament
I do not have to provide you evidence because you know God exists but suppress the truth in unrighteousness, it is not a truth problem, it’s a heart problem, people don’t want there to be a God because there love for sin and pleasures are more than being righteous.
nothing can not create space matter nor time, and also they believe there is no such thing as good or evil nor objective truth, our conscience says otherwise.
The Bible is a reliable collection of historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses which report supernatural events in fulfillment of specific prophecies claiming that they are words of divine origin, rather than human in origin." derived from 2 Peter 1:16-21
C.S. Lewis on Reasoning to Atheism
”Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”
—C.S. Lewis The Case for Christianity, p. 32.
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