Whether God created man or man Created God?
One of the most underestimated argument, but a very profound statement. When we look at the way a religion particularly popular one - Christianity, many say there are possibility that few men (or a group of men) could have thought to create a religion that could bring them great wealth, treasure, name and fame. But the reality is just the opposite. If it were few who would have created a religion, what about the rest. Most of the Christians in the early times do believed in the God and Science. They argued from a Skeptic point of view and thoroughly checked, verified and found the facts that Christianity as a religion is true and nothing can destroy the faith of this religious views, because the true God, The Son of God Jesus Christ - His life,, death on the cross and resurrection is real and it is a fact - A Proven one. Not only from the Biblical source. But also from the other sources.
There are many who argue, if Christianity is a true religion and if Jesus Christ is the God, why does not he appear to everyone and make it so simple to follow him? rather why Christianity allow doubts and gaps that are filled with all kinds of thoughts?
Christianity is true for sure. It doesn't make any sense if it has to be true, it has to be the only religion. Then there would not have been any point of reference to see that Christianity is the only true religion. With no doubt in my heart I could say that other religions are false and it is false because, Christianity is the only true religion and the other religions has to be false because Jesus Christ clearly states that there is no other way to God, but he alone is.
His forgiveness of Sin, offering himself is a great act of faith and obedience to the father. His resurrection is one of the greatest testimony for the whole human kind, as Paul says: 1 Corinthians 15:14 NIV And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
When we understand the human condition of his wants and needs, we could say that even if Christ were to be here they wouldn't have recognized, that was what happened two thousand years ago, when Christ came into the world and said that he is the Son of God, God himself - nobody believed in him. Jesus points out this very clearly in one of his parable - The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus:
Today we have God Spirit - The Holy Spirit the one of the God-head lives in us. This is the main reason why Jesus Christ has to go to heaven and sit at the right hand of the God - The Father.
John 16:7 NIV
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Jesus did not say, The Holy Spirit may not come, but will not come. So, it was very important for Jesus Christ to leave us and to ascend into heaven.
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
All the religions could be wrong, but only one can be right - David Pawson
One of the most underestimated argument, but a very profound statement. When we look at the way a religion particularly popular one - Christianity, many say there are possibility that few men (or a group of men) could have thought to create a religion that could bring them great wealth, treasure, name and fame. But the reality is just the opposite. If it were few who would have created a religion, what about the rest. Most of the Christians in the early times do believed in the God and Science. They argued from a Skeptic point of view and thoroughly checked, verified and found the facts that Christianity as a religion is true and nothing can destroy the faith of this religious views, because the true God, The Son of God Jesus Christ - His life,, death on the cross and resurrection is real and it is a fact - A Proven one. Not only from the Biblical source. But also from the other sources.
There are many who argue, if Christianity is a true religion and if Jesus Christ is the God, why does not he appear to everyone and make it so simple to follow him? rather why Christianity allow doubts and gaps that are filled with all kinds of thoughts?
Christianity is true for sure. It doesn't make any sense if it has to be true, it has to be the only religion. Then there would not have been any point of reference to see that Christianity is the only true religion. With no doubt in my heart I could say that other religions are false and it is false because, Christianity is the only true religion and the other religions has to be false because Jesus Christ clearly states that there is no other way to God, but he alone is.
His forgiveness of Sin, offering himself is a great act of faith and obedience to the father. His resurrection is one of the greatest testimony for the whole human kind, as Paul says: 1 Corinthians 15:14 NIV And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
When we understand the human condition of his wants and needs, we could say that even if Christ were to be here they wouldn't have recognized, that was what happened two thousand years ago, when Christ came into the world and said that he is the Son of God, God himself - nobody believed in him. Jesus points out this very clearly in one of his parable - The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus:
Luke 16:19-31 - The Rich Man and Lazarus
New American Standard Bible (NASB)The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 And a poor man named Lazaruswas laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21 and longing to be fed with thecrumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. 22 Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 And [a]besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham *said, ‘They haveMoses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
The other parable on the similar lines, which also speaks about the treatment of the Son of God by a wicked and cruel generation. The religions and the people, which teaches the self-righteousness, The Soul owners, The captain of the ships... The rider of the horse...etc will able be faded away when the Real Son Of God - Jesus Christ comes in the clouds of Heaven.Luke 20:9-19English Standard Version (ESV)
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
9 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard andlet it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. 10 When the time came, he sent a servant[a] to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 And he sent another servant. But they also beat andtreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14 But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15 And theythrew him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” 17 But helooked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it fallson anyone, it will crush him.”
Paying Taxes to Caesar
19 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
John 16:7 NIV
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Jesus did not say, The Holy Spirit may not come, but will not come. So, it was very important for Jesus Christ to leave us and to ascend into heaven.
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
All the religions could be wrong, but only one can be right - David Pawson
The Uniqueness of Christ in an Age of Pluralism
David explains that Pluralism is the current solution to the issue of people of different religions living together in the same community. All the religions could be wrong, but only one can be right, because there are radical contradictions between them. Christianity is unique because Christ is the only one of his kind. He came into this world and went out of it like no other. His life was different from everybody else in what he did, what he was and what he said. Unless the Gospel record is dismissed as fraudulent, Christ’s words leave just three options, that he was a lunatic, a liar or the Lord. So faith in Christ is exclusive, he is the only way to God, and inclusive – it is for everybody everywhere.
Talk given at Revelation TV in November 2009.
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