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  • There’s Good and Evil, So What?

    What difference does it make to me if there is good and evil?

    Well, we all stand on one side or the other. There are some who have earned the reputation of being evil, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson… Society as a general rule regard these men as evil, because of what they have done. (their works)

    Humanism has made the argument that “all people are basically good.” This argument has prevailed for the most part and is accepted as true. But is it true?

    Jesus and the Law

    A question was put to Jesus one day. “What is the greatest, or more important law?” It’s funny, this is the question that we all want answered. What is the least that I need to do to be considered good before God?

    Jesus’ answer as usual was not as easy as we would like, in fact His answer was quite impossible because it encompassed the entirety of the law. The greatest law he said is to love the Lord your God with all your heart mind and soul, and the second is just like it, equal to it, to love your neighbor as yourself.

    Well that put the kibosh on being good easy!

    The first part of His answer is impossible. We can’t love God with all our hearts minds and souls because that is the way we love ourselves. We take the position of love and adoration in our own minds, the position of love and adoration that God wants, that He deserves. We are our own number one, and God wants to be, needs to be, our number one.

    The second part of His answer, simply makes evident our position on the first part of the answer. It is impossible to love God with your everything if you don’t love all that He created as well. We can’t love God and hate our cousin Joe because he is an idiot. That would be a contradiction, a violation of the Law according to the teachings of Jesus. We can’t love God and ignore the suffering of children in need of food and clothing. We can’t love God and ignore the murder of babies. We can’t love God and ignore injustice in whatever form it takes.

    The Human Evil

    Despite the teachings of humanism, we as people are by default evil. We are born sinners, evil, and we look for excuses, and ways to dismiss what we know, that we are bad, rotten to the core. Late at night when all is quiet we know deep inside our failures, our wrongs, our evil actions. You need no convincing of that. The next morning, though we build a facade of righteousness, of all is well. We convince ourselves that we are good, and we go about our lives, putting on the lies.

    All the noise and distractions of our modern society aid us in forgetting that we are inside, evil, bad, lost. So at times when we are forced to slow down all these realities can be harsh, we can be laid bare to ourselves, and we don’t like what we see. That is why there is so much despair in these days, we have been made to be more still than we are used to. We have been made to slow down. We have time to think.

    There is hope! But hope is not in ourselves, it is in God. Seek Him. We are not whole without Him. We are in fact evil without Him. We all know this to be true!

  • The Battle of Good and Evil, for the Souls of Men

    Is there good and evil? Is there right and wrong? For years academia and the world of science has been telling us that there is no such thing as good and evil, no such thing as wright or wrong. They have been telling us that right and wrong is simply religious dogma designed to control us.

    Now all of a sudden academia, and science are all a buzz talking of social justice, and the evils perpetrated on certain groups in our society. I find this really interesting since they have been trying for so long to convince us that there is no good or evil, no right or wrong. You see without right or wrong, there is no justice! Without good or evil, there is no Justice!

    We all know deep within our being that there is right and wrong. We feel it whenever we do something good, that welling up of good unexplainable feeling in our chest. When we do wrong, just the opposite feeling occurs. Why is that? Gods word says that He has written His Law on our hearts. In other words, He has given us a conscience. An inner guide.

    When we try to ignore this inner guide bad things begin to happen. For one thing there is a nagging thought always that we are not doing good, but in fact we are doing evil. You see, there is no middle ground. The bible teaches that if we do not do good, we in fact do evil.

    This is why so many of our young people today are depressed and suicidal. They have been lied to, bamboozled! They have been taught to violate their own conscience. That conscience is always there to remind us of right and wrong. To remind us that we didn’t do good. This reminder comes especially strongly when we are quiet, when all the noise of the day has dissipated, and we lay down to sleep. There is no peace, the battle rages.

    So what is this battle of good and evil?

    God is battling for our souls, wanting us to do life His way. Satan is battling to keep us away from God and His way. Good vs. Evil.

    Doing life God’s way leads to peace, joy, unity. These things come because when we follow God’s way because there are basically two laws that govern our being. 1. Love God above all. and 2. Love everyone else like you love yourself.

    Evil says, you are different to me, so I will hate you. Evil starts by hating God, then hating others. We blame God for our troubles, then we blame others and lash out looking for revenge, but calling it justice.

    God created all men equally. We are not different in His mind, no matter color, race, status, or location.

    Do you want peace?

    Peace begins by listening to the conscience, that law that God has put in our hearts. Most of us know what is right and wrong.

    Real peace comes when we realize that God has already served justice on His own son, on our behalf. You see Jesus died a terrible death, in our place, so that our wrongs can be righted in God’s eyes.

  • God Creates All Things

    God is very specific about the time frame in which all things were created. He specifies the order in which things were made and the the time in which things were made. He is also specific of the fact that He created all things.

    Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    The Time Line By Day of Creation

    1. Day one God Created Time, Earth and Space, Light and Darkness, Night and Day.
    2. Day two God created the atmosphere of Earth
    3. Day Three God separated the seas from the dry land, He created the grass, herbs, and fruit trees.
    4. Day four God Created the Sun, Moon and Stars. He made them to mark time and seasons.
    5. Day five God created all the sea creatures, mammals, reptilians and fish, and all the birds.
    6. Day six God created all the land based animals, animals of all classes. And He created man like Himself. God put mankind over all the other created things, to rule over them and dominate them.
    7. Day Seven God rested from all that He did. He set the seventh day as special because He rested.

    We learn from God’s account of the beginning of all things that He is able to do whatever He wants. He is all powerful, there is no end to his power.

    Everything exists because God wants it to exist, His will is final and irrefutable.

    Everything that God Created is Good, was perfect and without flaw.

    God Created mankind with special attention, with special purpose, and completely different from all the rest of creation.

  • God The Creator

    God The Creator

    God introduces Himself in the first chapters of the book of Genesis as the creator of all things. This includes all that we see and experience around us, including the great expanse of space and all that is in it.

    This has several implications.

    The first is that before the beginning of the creation that we observe around us, both near and far, only God existed! There was no time, no earth, no life, no space, no stars, not even light or darkness. Just God and God alone.

    Everything that exists was made, created by God. So without God there is no life, no matter, no light and no darkness, not even time.

    Everything created is His to do with as He wants. He can keep creation as it is with no changes or He can decide to change things up. For example a big subject today is “global warming.” God if He wishes can heat things up, or cool them off, and there is nothing that can be done about it. If God decides to change the temperature of the climate, or anything else for that matter, the result will be God’s desired result. That means that we, mankind, can’t change the workings of creation or destroy it either.

    Most of the things created by God were spoken into existence. This is important because there is one part of creation that is different to all the rest. When it comes to mankind, God teaches that He formed him from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. God made man differently, He made man much more intimately, more personally. We are created differently in order to interact with God, to relate to God. All the rest of creation is created for mankind, while mankind is created for God. This is truly what sets man apart from all the “animal kingdom.” Not thumbs, not upright mobility. We, mankind, are created differently, with a different purpose, that is why we are different.

    Because all things are created by God there is design and purpose in all things and beings. There are no accidents, every part of creation is planned and purposed. Things did not accidentally become the way they are, life did not evolve from one lower form to another. God created all things as they are.

    God has no need for anything provided by our universe, our world. He exists completely independent of it and from it. The universe and all in it was created by God for God, and He has no need of it at all.

    Because everything is created by God, He can and does determine what happens to everything in this created world. Because everything is His design, He has the right to determine how all things should function, how all things should act and react. God has the right to interfere in the daily functioning of all things. He also has the right to end this world when He desires. There is no fairness or unfairness where God’s dealings with His creation is concerned. How can anything that is made, complain to, or, about it’s maker that one thing is fair or unfair? God determines what is right, wrong, fair, or unfair.

  • God is Totally Unfair!

    I have heard many time from many people about the unfairness of God. Usually they are angry with God because something has happened to upset their normal daily lives. Perhaps someone close has died, or perhaps a job has been lost. As a result the question is, why is God doing this to me?

    I have to agree. God is completely unfair in his dealing with mankind!

    Purpose

    I think we can all agree that there is purpose for everything, and everyone. For Example, a refrigerator. We purchase a refrigerator to keep our food fresh for longer and our drinks cold for more enjoyment. That is the purpose of the refrigerator.

    We purchase a refrigerator and load it up with food stuff and drink. We expect that the food and drink will be kept cold or frozen while inside the box.

    As long as the stuff stays cold or frozen inside the refrigerator it is fulfilling it’s purpose, and is deemed useful.

    What about some day in the future when we open the door of that refrigerator, and we are met with a mildly unpleasant odor, reaching into the refrigerator we find it warm instead of cold. Not happy we open the Freezer part of the refrigerator to find it’s contents thawed and spoiling.

    That refrigerator is no longer fulfilling it’s purpose! It is now worthless, and we need a new one.

    Our Purpose

    God also created us for a purpose. He created us to devote ourselves to Him, to worship Him and to look to Him for all our needs.

    Rom 1:21 states that man though knowing God have decided not to acknowledge Him as God.

    So we when we are not living acknowledging that all things come from God and not giving thanks to Him for all things, we have failed in our created purpose.

    Fairness

    So, if we know what fairness is, and when something in our lives does not fulfill it’s purpose, in fairness we discard that thing. If God were fair by our standards, we would all be discarded. We fail him in every aspect of our lives. This failure is called Sin. The book of Romans once again addresses this in Rom 3:23, stating that we, all of us have sinned against God. We have all failed Him.

    Since we have all failed Him, by our standards we should be cast away, replaced! Being God who created the world and all in it, if God had our mindset, when Adam sinned against God, He would have destroyed it all and started again. Thus we would not be!

    The Unfairness of God

    So we are all failures and we deserve to be cast away!

    But God being totally unfair as decided to buy us back, to make a way that we can be redeemable. That we can be useful once again, once and for all!

    Rom 3:24-26 Go on to tell us that Jesus was given by God to make us acceptable again. He has sent Jesus to Justify us before God, making us useful and with purpose again.

    That is the unfairness of God. He is willing to overlook all our faults, all our sins. Faith in Jesus covers up our faults before God. Gives us purpose again.

    The unfairness of God justifies us without us having to give anything. We have nothing to give that could justify us.

    So yes God is a totally unfair God who created us to look to him for all things. We have all failed God in all things. But He unfairly made us justified once again.

    God has unfairly made us look completely sinless as far as He can see. That is unfair!

  • Evolution Vs. The Bible

    We are being taught today that the universe and all that is in it happened by accident, and, that from that accident all life as we know it evolved. Those who hold to evolution also claim the Bible to be a fairy tale, a superstition advanced by a select group to deceive an manipulate the general population. We are being taught that science proves that evolution has occurred and therefore there is no God.

    Is this all true?

    Scientific Method

    In order to understand what is going on in the world or universe around us there needs to be a method to gain that knowledge. With no method we can draw any kind of conclusion based on any reason which doesn’t have to be based in fact.

    Wikipedia defines the scientific method this way. “The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.[2] To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry is commonly based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.” click here for the full article.

    Let’s make a simple definition for our purposes here. Science is a study of the world around us based on observable, measure-able evidence.

    Evolution

    For the purpose of this discussion I am more interested in the Evolutionary history of life, because this is where the scientific community most takes aim at the christian church.

    Evolutionary History is defined in  Wikipedia as: “The evolutionary history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms have evolved since life appeared on the planet, until the present day.” Complete article here.

    For evolution to occur many years are required, and many accidents that cause change(evolution) to take place. The latest idea out there it seems is that several billion years ago stars exploded expelling stardust across the universe in which itself contained the basic elements for life. These elements then over billions of years established life in the universe as we know it, and possibly in other places unknown to us.

    There are problems with any of this from the prospective of scientific method. First of all none of this is observable. There is also no way to measure either the explosion of the star or stars that “exploded” or the time needed for life to establish itself, or the accident needed to make the environment necessary to generate, then incubate life into existence. One quick thought on heat and life, don’t we use heat to destroy living organisms (sterilization)? Arn’t starts, by their very nature, Heat? In fact much greater heat that we would use for sterilization. We must then simply accept that this great accident actually happened. We must accept that out of the heat of a furnace protazoa emerged. We must accept that inspite of what we know of the destruction that occurs in an explosion, for the purpose of evolution, life emerged. Where did the stars that exploded come from? Did they evolve? According to evolutionists we must have “faith” in the scientific establishment, simply because they are smarter than us.

    Radiometric dating is relied on for the establishment of the age of the earth and everything in it when it comes to evolution. The interesting thing with these methods is the sheer number of assumptions made in the theories used for these methods. The assumptions and exceptions by far out weigh the known facts when considering radiometric dating. After all we have at best a few thousand years of verifiable, datable, objects to test. Even when testing these verifiable objects multiple tests must be run to achieve the correct outcome. Who determines the correct outcome? There are papers on top of papers written concerning the fragility of these tests, and the ease of which the accuracy of these tests can be affected. So if we know the accuracy of a test done on an object of which we have a good idea of the age can be off, how can we be sure of the accuracy of a test done on an object that is unknown in origin? One must assume at that point that the tester must assume the basic age of an object then test to get the correct results. Bad science! Un measure-able. Un verifiable.

    The fact of the matter is, you have to have great FAITH in the theory of evolution. Faith is the basis of religion. And so, I put to you that evolution is as much a faith based religion as any other faith based religion out there. It just so happens that many, not all, but many scientists are of the Evolutionist faith!

    Defense of Evolution

    In the history of mankind, religion has been used to force compliance of peoples all over this world. Most times the motive to force compliance of peoples is power/wealth. The religion of evolution is no different. The power struggle today is very evident. The pressures on our society are very evident. We are seeing evolution being taught in our schools as fact, not theory. In fact it’s interesting that Evolution is still described in articles as “The Theory of Evolution” but presented as if it is established as absolute truth. Dangerous!

    Ridicule is heaped on any who dare express any other idea. Or even challenge simply the time evolution requires. Yet evolutionist wax eloquent on the idea of tolerance. Try to offer a differing view to any of them, and observe the “tolerance.” This is the same tactic used by many religions to force the community into compliance.

    Conclusion

    We have allowed this religion of Evolutionism to take our society, but there will be no taking it back. It’s up to you to decide for yourself if the religion of Evolution is for you, or not.

    You must engage your mind. In the end you are responsible for your beliefs. Blind faith in anyone, or anything is a crap shoot at best. Information, knowledge is there for you to discover, don’t let others define you as a person. Don’t allow yourself to be carried away in a lie.

    Your beliefs define you as a person!

  • Life As A New Christian

    So what does it look like to live a “christian” life. One thing that you can expect is that everyone christian and non christian alike will be more than willing to point out how a christian should and shouldn’t live.

    Likely Advice From Christians

    You will likely directed to go to church and to read your bible. These are two really good pieces of advice. It is always positive to interact with other christians to learn from one another, to discuss what is being learned, and how God is working in our lives. Encouragement from other believers in hard times and good time cause growth and strength in our lives of faith. As far as reading the bible, God has very successfully protected the bible through the history of the world. It is both the most loved and hated book of all time. It is the most published book of all times. It is translated into more languages than any other book. He has protected it for you and I, that we can know him through studying it’s pages.

    Pray, talk with God. He has given us direct access to Himself. Jesus teaches that we can speak with Him directly Just as Jesus can. Tell Him of your struggles. Thank Him for the blessing that He brings into your life. Ask Him to meet your needs.

    There will be other advice that will come from well meaning christians but not really rooted in the truths passed on to us through the word of God. Dos and don’ts that are considered to be the way of the “good” Christian life, but can be a trap pulling us away from God. Beware of religious activity, the High Priests of Jesus’ day were highly moral men, following God’s law to the letter, but missing the spirit of God when He walked among them. The same danger exists for the God fearing person today, be spirit led! Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well that the day will come that we worship God in Spirit… That day is now!

    Likely Advice From Non-Christians

    Believe it or not there will be many unbelievers who will be more than willing to lead you in the way that a christian should go. I found it very interesting as a new believer how many people that would not be caught dead in a church would very readily tell me that “hey christians can’t do that,” or, “a good christian person would always do…”

    Unbelievers will be the most ready to offer opinions of where you can go, what you can do, and how you can act. Live in faith, in the Spirit. Listening to God as you read His word.

    Important for the Christian

    First the christian life is a living relationship with God himself. He said in the word of God that He will send the Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us in all truth. I believe that He will make Himself known to us and guide our lives in the way that He wants us to live. I find that in our intellectual age, we tend to fear the spiritual world but to be a christian is to live in the spiritual world. The bible teaches us that the spirit of God indwells (Jn 16:13) believers, which means that we can be lead by the Spirit at all times. That makes the christian life a spiritual life. We can live in faith knowing that God will lead us, guiding our lives to be pleasing to Him.

    There is no set of rules to live by to be pleasing to God. Jesus when asked which of the commandments was the greatest replied, “The greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as yourself.” These two thoughts sum up the way that God would have us to live. (Romans 1:17) There are well meaning people who will give you a set of standards to live by as a christian. Please know that the bible teaches that just as we are saved completely by faith so we can live only completely by faith. There is no recipe to live by but faith in God. The trick is to do what you do by faith and let God teach you and lead you. There will be people that God may put into your life to lead you along the way, but make sure that what they are telling you matches your understanding of the word of God. Faith is the beginning of our spiritual lives, and faith will take us trough to the end of this life.

  • The Gospel of Jesus Christ

    So what is the gospel of Jesus Christ? The simple meaning of “gospel” is good news. So the gospel of Jesus Christ can be called the good news of Jesus Christ. So what is this good news? The good news or the gospel is that because we as mankind is not good enough to be acceptable to God and only deserving of His punishment, Jesus made a way for us to be adopted as sons and daughters of God, not just accepted, but adopted!

    Unacceptable

    We, mankind are all unacceptable to god because we are imperfect. The moral law that God gave us simply proves our imperfection. when we compare ourselves against the law of God, or the ten commandments we see quickly that we fail on multiple or all points of the law. For myself I don’t make it past the very first commandment, Love the Lord your God with all your heart. My heart and mind are constantly drawn to other things or people casting God aside, failing to keep his law, condemned as guilty. I fail on all points of the law if it is interpreted in the fashion that Jesus says it should be applied. For He said in the sermon on the mount that to even think contrary to the law is to break or violate the law, thus failing to keep it. It is logical to conclude then that no person except God is capable of keeping the law.  we are all Unacceptable and therefore condemned as sinners. Deserving only the judgement of God.

    Judgement

    So we are all judged guilty. We are all rebelling against God and this is proved by the law given us by Him. We all also know this to be true instinctively. That is why we feel guilt when we do or think anything that is immoral, or sin.

    God’s judgement for those who have sinned is death, and separation from Him for eternity. Hell is the place for which we are bound. We judge ourselves, we know our own guilt. There is no defense.

    Substitution

    From the beginning God has allowed for a substitute to die for the sins of another. For Adam and Eve He, God sacrificed lambs and as a symbol covered them with the skins of the animals. The animals bore the sin of Adam and Eve, the blood of the lambs was shed in substitution for the blood of Adan and Eve.

    In the same way God has provided a substitutionary sacrifice in Jesus for all the world. He was judged guilty for our sin, and died as our substitute so that we can live, both now and forever with God.

    One Requirement

    There is only one requirement left to have the substitutionary death of Christ applied to anyone! Believe.

    Yes that is the good news of Jesus Christ. Believe that He is the son of God who died as your substitute to with His blood purchase your forgiveness for all the sin you have done and will do.

    Jn 3:16 Perhaps the most known scripture verse there is. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. That is the only requirement that God has for total forgiveness.

    He doesn’t require that we change our lives to be saved from death. He doesn’t require us to give up any vises, bad habits to be saved. There is no ceremony to be done, no isles to walk, no service to do. Simply believe!

    He will change our lives as we live believing Him, live by faith.

  • Character of God, Did God Create Sin

    There was a concept brought up to me just a couple of weeks ago. A concept that I had not heard before, and the thought of which had never entered my mind. It turns out that his concept is a concept held by some of the “great” theologians who’s teachings we follow with fervour. This is the reason that God has told us very strongly to scrutinise the teachings of our teachers against the word of God. If they are wrong we must confront them as they will do damage to the body of Christ.

    The concept is that God created sin. The basis for the argument that God created sin is that He is Sovereign over all things. That God created all things that exists, therefore He has to have created sin.

    It is interesting that one attribute of God can be taken to such an extreme by our foolish minds that we make God what He is not. There is no scripture that they can point to that declares that God is the Author of Sin, but they have taken scripture that speaks to the Sovereignty of God and applied their own extra Scriptural understanding to it.

    In fact there are a few things that the bible teaches very clearly that God can’t do. Yes even though He is sovereign, He has limitations.

    1. God cannot lie. Tit 1:2 Heb 6:18
    2. God cannot tempt with evil. James. In fact He can only do good. It is not within His ability to do evil, or cause anyone else to do evil.

    Another interesting thing about our Sovereign God is His ability to forget. Yes, Forget. Heb 8:12 Isa 43:25

    So we see that His limitations are toward sin. The only thing that the Sovereign God can’t do is anything involving sin. He can’t cause a person to sin, He can’t make sin, and He can’t do sin. His memory toward sin can also be wiped out. Scripture says He will not remember sin of the redeemed.

    James 1 is the most direct scripture written to this subject. It tells me that this argument has been going on since the beginning of the church. Fallen man is always in danger of misunderstanding God when he thinks too highly of himself.

    James 1:13 is pretty clear that no one can blame God when he sins. Because it say God can’t be tempted with evil and neither does God tempt anyone. So if God in fact did create evil then this passage would be a direct contradiction.

    The passage then goes on to describe from God’s perspective how a man is tempted with evil. Vs. 14 states that a man is tempted when his own lust (NIV uses the words strong desire) draws him away and entices him. That means that the evil, or sin, starts from man’s own person. There is no need for outside influence. There are many people out there who claim things like “the devil made me do it.” Well to say that you’d have to throw the book of James  out of the scriptures.

    Vs. 16 goes on to say that everything good comes from God. That is all God is capable of doing, good! God is not in the business of causing, making sin. Sin is a consequence of peoples own lust. This verse also makes a statement that there is no “variableness” in Him. That is to say that He is always the same, since He is always good, there is no potential for sin, or no potential for Him to tempt anyone to sin.

  • Free Will

    Okay, we all know that God is sovereign! He has the right and ability to rule over all of creation, to do with it as He wishes. After all most of creation was done by Him simply commanding, speaking it into existence. I say most because man was different, God formed mankind with his own hands, then breathed life into him. There is a clear distinction between the creation of man and all the rest of creation as it exists.

    God created mankind in His own image. That doesn’t mean that we look like Him, but rather we are like Him in spirit. Things that set us apart from all other created living things. Creativity, Communication, Desire, Love.

    Yes, mankind is God’s special creation, we also do things, act differently from all of creation. The Bible teaches that all of creation glorifies God, all of creation speaks to His existence. All of creation is created to do just this, all except man. We have been given a choice to decide weather or not we will gorily our creator, again a special privilege.

    Adam and Eve were given a special place to live. In this special place were places two trees that were also special. One of the trees was forbidden to them for food. To eat the fruit of that tree would be to disobey God, to sin. This was the first choice given to mankind. It was a simple choice, to leave the fruit alone, or to eat it. It didn’t take long for a poor choice to take place. Was this God’s doing? Was it Eve’s doing? Was it Adams doing? We have been living with the consequences of that one bad decision for the rest of our history, and we will continue to live with it for the rest of history future, until God brings the history of earth to an end.

    Genesis 3:1-3 The question is put to Eve do you eat of the forbidden fruit or not? Is God holding out on you? We like to blame Eve for this poor decision, but if you read on Adam must have been standing there with her and he offered no resistance to her trying it. The decision was made by both of them. The consequences of making a poor decision did not delay long in coming. God Put them out of the garden, killed animals in order to clothe them, and started the clock of death that would come. Did She exercise her free will to eat of the fruit, did Adam? Yes!

    God sometimes hardens a persons will, usually to force a point to be clearly understood. We see this clearly in the case of Pharaoh while Moses was trying to get him to set the people of Israel free in Exodus. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that He, God, could show the entire world that He is who He says He is and will do what He says He’ll do.

    We have the will to obey or not to obey God. Joshua near the end of his life told the people of Israel to make up their minds who they would serve. They had seen God work mighty works, but still some dabbled in sin. Joshua 24:14-15

    We have the will to believe him or not to believe him. Jesus gives us the same teaching. John 3 Jesus explains to Nicodemus, a learned man in the scriptures, that one must believe on Jesus to attain everlasting life. This is your privilege, to believe on not to believe. There is no other created thing that has this privilege. Will you believe Him? Will you live?