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Saturday, 23 February 2008 @ 8:48 pm The world is evil. Damn it I'm not even kidding. It's a horrible, horrible thing to wake up one morning and realise how screwed up our world is. How little faith we have in God. First and foremost - I call myself a Christian, and I hope that I can, but honestly, I'm not worthy enough to be one. Someone told me today that until you hate everything in this world, and your parents, family, friends, everyone, everything, all that exists, all that you know, except God, and all else that is truly good, and until you see how evil everything else is, you can't go to heaven. Why hate your mother and father? Because they brought you into this world. Meaning you hate this world of sin, and the reason you're in it. Not just because they're there, because you are. I won't go as far as to say I believe him completely, because these days, I believe no one, but he's half right. Now, most things he says, I do question, but he's so right in some other ways. We don't want to know our world is evil, do we? We have everything to lose. Everyone's survived so far, why should we step aside and change things? Why should we see the world in any other way? Shouldn't we appreciate all we have? But this life is only temporary, right? True life is in heaven, that's obvious enough. I haven't read much of the Bible. I have no right to agree or disagree to anything that I haven't read. But of what I have read, I think it contradicts itself quite a bit. As for the Church, in general, they don't even follow the Bible anymore. If you were to step into, say, a Catholic church of some sort, you'd see statues of gold and stained glass windows; huge roofs inside a giant building, and a priest would come out dressed in strange robes and say weird things, and it'd be very worldly, very showy, very pompous. They've got more authority than you, and they've got fancy robes and bathe in the glory of all. Of course, it'd appeal to you. Why? Because you probably think that's better than some small, humble, simple church with no ceremony at all, but preaches life instead of death, and treats all equally. If we really followed the Bible, then the world would be fair, as well as equal, but every evil thing, every injustice is caused by the breaking of any law that God told us to keep. Obviously, no one can obey those laws 100% - obviously every person sins, simply because we are human, and all men sin and fall short of the glory of God, meaning none of us are good enough to go to heaven, and the penalty for sinning is death. And who doesn't die? You're not saved by keeping the law, you are condemned by the law. You are saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. You can only go to heaven through him, and if you don't believe in him fully, you can't possibly go. But that isn't to say that the law is done away with. It says in numerous places in the Bible that you have to keep the law, I will not quote the Bible here, firstly because I cannot remember much of it, and I won't randomly slap down what I understand of it here, because that wouldn't be a direct quote. He will still save those who have faith in Him, that he would save you, and if you really believe in Christ, you'd keep his laws regardless. It's there so you can have a better life here. Everything we want, we can get through the law the right way. Everything we desire, be it sex, money, fame, or whatever you want. It can all be obtained through keeping the law. We don't need to sin to get those things, like we usually do. This world can't even follow the Bible. God doesn't expect us to be perfect, but he does expect us to try to be all that we can be. This life is so limited, don't we realise that? Who can honestly say that their life is so perfect that they could want nothing more? This life is temporary. Short. Pointless. It's not even a life, really. He said, when we finally do go to heaven, if we do, we'll remember this world like you'll remember being in your mother's womb. So obviously, it has very little meaning in the whole picture. If you put it that way though, it was necessary that we were in our mother's wombs to start off with. So, I woke up this morning. And I looked at my life, and the world I live in, and it all seemed so corrupt, full of greed and worldly things. Contempt, lust, desire, and it's just getting worse. He said He already knows everybody who He's saving, before we're even born, and He has a house built for us in heaven, and everything, but there's also a possibility for people who He didn't think He'd save to be saved. He hides the truth from those who aren't His children, because He doesn't want to save them, but if you are His child, you can find the truth in the Bible, and even the whole world around us. We can find proof of God. No one else can save you like you can save yourself. I reckon I could try all my life, but I could never put down all the sin and material belongings which can't help but mean so much to me. Could I ever give up everything I had? I don't think so. I say all this and in the end, I can't do much better. That's why I fail as a Christian, as everything. I'm not anyone of importance, I will live this life and it will pass, in a few years I will no longer be remembered, no longer exist. Why do we believe in heaven, in salvation, in Jesus Christ, in eternal life? Because we can't bear to not exist. We can't imagine ourselves not being there. You might not agree with anything else I've said, but could you bear to be wiped off the face of the earth [to use a cliche] and simply not be any longer? And I'll leave you with this. Just click. Right here. |