Monday, October 23, 2006

In The Dark

What happens to people who never have a chance to hear about Jesus? Will God condemn a person who has never heard about Him?

I did some research and reading and this is what I found:
(Romans 1:20)
20"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
(Ecclesiastes 3:11)
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

All people are accountable to God whether they have “heard about Him” or not. The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature (Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The problem is that the human race is sinful; They all reject this knowledge of God and rebel against Him.

(Romans 1:21-23)
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Apart from God's grace, God would give us over to the sinful desires of our hearts, allowing us to discover how useless and miserable life is apart from Him. This He does for those who reject Him.

(Romans 1:24-32)
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

In reality, it is not that some people have not heard about God. Rather, the problem is that they have rejected what they have heard and what is clearly seen in nature.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Good and Evil

Thanks everyone for contributing to my blog. On the topic of Good and Evil, what are your ways of knowing weather something is Good or Bad (in the eyes of God). TC I'm sure you'll have some great scriptural refrences and everyone please don't get to personal.
Nick

Friday, October 13, 2006

Trends

As I walk through the hall at school i realize how impressionable people are. Including me. There are new trends everyday that ppl spend loads of money on. My question would be is what does God think about this? I know he wants us to be ouselves, but would you concider dressing in the trend as being sinful. I would just like some opinions, NO Fights!
Nick