And it’s so true that we don’t really see our wickedness until we are saved. I have been a Christian for about five years now, and it wasn’t until last year that I saw my wickedness, sinful habits and evil thoughts that I denied for all those years. I’m so glad that God opened my eyes to see my sins, and so thankful that he continues to forgive through the blood of his son.

Thanks for sharing this.

- DYU
http://theg2gblog.wordpress.com

Christ Jesus said at Matthew 10:34 “Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

While Satan works to maintain “peace on earth” and halt prophecy, mankind is alienated from God. What was prophesied long ago is currently taking place and will continue to until the battle of Armageddon.

Ezekiel 29:8 “Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to bring a sword against you and wipe out man and animal from you.”

Yes, that means God is angry. 

Revelation 16:21 “Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from heaven on the people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.”

We are currently in the Tribulation and the severity is about to become much worse. If you think things are bad now, you can’t imagine how bad they will become.

Satan is not the cause of what is occurring in the world via natural disasters, plagues, pestilence, financial crisis and all the rest. It is Yahweh’s will and it comes directly from Him. He is the One in control, and the One whom is nature.

Psalm 83:18 “May they know that You alone – whose name is Yahweh – are the Most High over all the earth.”

Calamity will come upon mankind and it will be via Yahweh’s hand. Satan is powerless to stop Him and mankind is powerless to stop Him.

Ezekiel 28:23 “I will send a plague against her and bloodshed in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Yahweh is about to bring full rebellion to Satan’s empire. As hard as he works to try and keep peace, he will not be able to halt the people from rebelling against the governments. There is a reason the job failures and the staggering economy, and the lost homes. They are all designed to culminate against each government of every nation affected by this curse from God. 

Malachi 1:4 “Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the LORD has cursed forever.”

Satan will bring the nations back up from ruin for a short while, but they will not hold together. During that period of destruction, the people will curse God and seek their true benefactor that is opposed to Christ and Yahweh – Satan. The Antichrist will then make his appearance. The people will be awed by Satan’s regained powers and his strength to bring peace to this world of people. But it will not last. Yahweh will see to that.

Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!” 

All of mankind is cursed except for the remnant. Think. How many people survived the Great Flood? Sodom and Gomorrah? It will not be any different. Those events were precursors to what will occur in these End Times. 

Mark 11:12 “[ The Barren Fig Tree Is Cursed ] The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry.” 

Mark 11:21 “Then Peter remembered and said to Him, ” Rabbi, look! The fig tree that You cursed is withered.” 

Satan’s family tree is barren and was cursed long ago.  Mankind is withering under our Creator’s curse.

Jeremiah 17:5 “[ Curse and Blessing ] This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes [human] flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.” 
Mankind is under a curse and belongs to Satan. It requires effort – action on the part of anyone hearing this wake up call to get out of Satan’s empire. Those that have remained are to receive the plagues just ahead. Everything else has just been foreplay. The worst is just ahead, and it’s all from Yahweh.

When Satan’s empire totally crumbles out from under him and them as their Antichrist, this is what will happen:

Ezekiel 33:27 “Tell them this: This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I have given to wild animals to be devoured, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.”

Ezekiel 38:22 “I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone on him, as well as his troops and the many peoples who are with him.”

Habakkuk 3:5 “Plague goes before Him, and pestilence follows in His steps.” 

That is the path Yahweh will lead Satan’s followers down.

Deuteronomy 28:16 “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.” 

There will be nowhere to hide.

For the so-called Christian churches that claim to reveal Yahweh’s Word in truth:

Revelation 2:23 “I will kill her children with the plague. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works.” 

They are cursed especially for their lying conduct in reference to Yahweh and Christ. Remember when Yahweh killed the first born males of ancient Egypt? Now He will kill the children of Satan that make up the false churches. 

1 Chronicles 21:27 “Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.” 

The only way this will happen is if they repent and accept Yahweh for who He really is – in Truth. 

Otherwise, those churches professing to be true Christians will go the way of the rest of cursed mankind. 

Revelation 2:11 “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.”

i look at it in a logical way, and i think thats really the only way we can look at it, parents who know there kids are disobediant might punish them, but not for eterinity.

i think something must be missing in the bible maybe?
just doesnt make sence?
and how can we trust the bible hasnt been manipulated by the government to keep it easyer for us to control?

Well done! I have been a Christian since 1978, my senior year in High School. My father was an atheist and my mothers faith was more Sociological. Because of a move, my family had discontinued any journey of faith around 1972. Ironically, this was one of the best things that could have happened for me. Coming to faith in this environment caused me to weigh the evidence for or against Xianity. My search led me to Christian faith as opposed to others and into full time teaching ministry. As I have worked with thousands of Christians over the past 32 years, I think you are dead on with your answer to the question “Why are you a Christian?” Your thoughts need to be heard!

Mike

That’s odd considering the Piraha have no tradition of art or drawing at all. They also do not have a word for “god” or “gods” in any way shape or form, they do not believe in a higher power, they do not believe in an afterlife.

However, you are right in that they are not atheists in the traditional sense (although they still are in the technical sense) as they do believe in spirits and supernatural causes to things like diseases (they believe that malaria is caused by contact with a leaf that has fallen from beyond the sky). However the “spiritual world” here is drastically different from conventional “understanding” of a spiritual world. If you were to loosen your definition of spiritual until it envelopes every petty superstition in every culture and tribe around they world, you’ve defined it out of any sort of practical relevance.

I don’t want to lower our discourse down to baseless ad hominem attacks but I am beginning to doubt you’ve studied many other religions as rigorously as you apparently have studied Christianity.

From living in South America, this is simply untrue. In fact, Daniel Everett wrote a book called “Don’t sleep there are snakes” about his de-conversion from theism through an atheist South American tribe.

“Hostility towards people because they worship the only God is not a separate issue.”

I’m not hostile towards you. I only seek to help you through your delusion.

1) atheists are hostile (for a pretty mangled definition of “hostility”)
2) therefore, their hostility is evidence that they realize they are wrong

And then you have a terse version of the Transcendental Argument for the existence of god, where you crucially leave out your justification for the assertion that “Laws can only come from a lawgiver that has similar characteristics.”

And then you conclude with a direct threat. Very classy.

“True, but it is historically and statistically improbable that your belief is finally the right one. There is nothing to make the claims of god any more compelling or true than that of Vishnu or Zeus or Tengri or Buddha or Crowley.”

There are only two religions in the world. Many of “works,” meaning you need to do something like a ritual, pray 5 times a day, meditate, etc. in order to please your deity or your belief. Then there is Christianity in which your saved by grace. And only God chooses to save you.

Christianity is very unique.

In theory: It seems like something of some kind must have designed physics. Such a being may as well be called “God”.

In practice: It seems like something of some kind must have designed physics. Long story short, My particular brand of Christianity is exactly right.

This post was mentioned on Reddit by dinx2582: I have a genuine and honest question that I was hoping you might be willing to answer: Why do you personally choose to believe in something for which there is no evidence to suggest the existence of? I’m …

If the above paragraph seems ridiculous to you, then why should the same paragraph make sense when referring to a “god”?

Tell me, is there no such thing as Hindu’s either? How about Taoists? Jainists? Budhists? Sikhs? Wiccans? Please…