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Eternal influences

When I was a kid, the excuse "so-and-so told me to do it" didn't hold much weight with my mom. She'd usually reply with "if so-and-so told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?" Sadly today, we are almost completely driven to act and live the same as everyone around us. If we had to give honest excuses for wrong-doings in our lives, then surely more often than not, our excuse will be that we were influenced by other people. With that introduction, here are some questions I want you to ask yourself. By what standards do you compare yourself? What determines if you're good or bad?, wise or unwise?, cool or un-cool?, good looking or ugly, etc? I'm sure most people will answer, that society determines these things. Every day the world force-feeds us what we are to believe to be good, wise, cool, good looking, etc, and if we don't buy into the world-view, then we're classed as weird or abnormal. Now some people who've read thus far m...
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Fear and hope

Yesterday, I read somebody's blog about the problems they have with Christianity. About so-called contradictions and mistakes in the Bible. I went to the site they got their info from... and this site is absolutely dedicated to smearing the Bible and Christianity. The Internet has lots of these sites. I think a lot of people have had bad experiences with Christians, or don't like and understand the message of the Bible. Anyway, I went through the list of "contradictions", and found what I expected to find, that every scripture was taken literally and mostly out of context, and that way seemed to be contradicting. Anyway, my views that the Bible is the absolute perfect Word of God, still stands unwavering. This lead me to think... this person who has created this site, who I believe has absolutely convinced himself that the Bible has no message for his life. What does he do now? What does he live for? Why does he live? What about death? Surely if you know death i...
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Genesis

This is it! My first attempt at writing a blog. I’m just a guy who has been saved by the grace of God. I am no more than any of my fellow human beings. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.(Ephesians 2:8,9) It saddens me to see a world, so desperately in need of God, so desperately in need of truth, not taking the time or effort to search. Do not just accept everything the world tells you! Start giving thought to your ways, and your life. Do not be content! Life is too short to waste it! Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”(Haggai 1:5, 6) It saddens me that so many people take the words of other men, as truth ...
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