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DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER IN GLORY, JOY AND PLEASURE?
Here is how:
Everybody, if they are honest with themselves, knows they want to live forever. Even an atheist wants this, regardless of anything they may assert to the contrary. It is actually possible to live forever in glory, joy and pleasure. We have the ability to find out how to do this.
Depending on where you are at in your learning, thinking and understanding, in order for you to come to this knowledge about eternal life, you may not only have to learn some things that you have not learned before, but you may have to UNlearn some things that you think are true.
There is overwhelming, compelling evidence that the Bible is literally the Word of God. This assertion is acknowledged as true by millions if not billions of people. If you research this claim honestly and open-mindedly, you will have the basis for coming to this conclusion for yourself.
The mainstream scientific, educational and media sources of the world tend to assert that the earth and the universe are billions of years old and that life on earth evolved by purely natural means over eons. But there is a minority of scientists who hold one or more opposing views. ChatGPT has stated the chance of life evolving on earth by purely random, natural means is one in ten to the 640th power! For all practical purposes, that means there is ZERO chance that life evolved this way. But even a theistic evolutionist, one who believes that there was supernatural guidance involved in the process of evolution, is going against the fundamental principles asserted by the mainstream science community. Non-theistic scientists assert that there is and has been no supernatural cause of natural effects. They believe the universe and nature explain themselves. If one takes a real, hard look at the evidence, these principles of the mainstream intellectual elite show themselves to be absurd.
If we are wrong about how life got here, then we are probably wrong about how death originated and about what can be done about death.
Once one has realized that the Bible is the word of God, a shockingly different view of life and death emerges in place of the mainstream worldview. The Bible indicates that at the beginning, nature, the universe, the earth and life on the earth were perfect and set to last forever. But the first two humans sinned against the creator. Every human born since the beginning, with the exception of Jesus Christ, has inherited an evil, sinful, selfish and anti-God nature in their “heart.” Also, God responded to the sin of Adam and Eve with a Curse that has been placed on nature. That is the reason that physical death came about, as well as all other imperfections in life and nature, such as disease and disaster. That is the reason why galaxies collide and stars explode!
Man is powerless to come up with a solution to the problem of death. No advanced science, technology or medicine will ever cure this Curse. It is supernaturally caused and can only be supernaturally solved. God has provided the solution. While physical death is inevitable, spiritual, everlasting life is available. It is not universally granted to all humans. It is only granted to those who repent of sin and give their lives over to control of the Creator.
Below, to the next subtitle, is an excerpt from a letter that I have been sending to some people:
I am writing because I want you to go to heaven. There is an intellectual world-view that is commonly called “the biblical word-view.” This is the view that the Bible is the Word of God and is the only infallible source of the truths that it addresses.
Again, I am writing to you because I want you to go to heaven. I have recently become a born again Christian, which provides me with eternal security. I wish the same for you. You, like all people, know that you have done things in your life that were not right. This just goes to show that it is true what the Bible says about all of us humans: we are all born with a sinful nature. The Pope, Billy Graham, Adolf Hitler and you and I were all born with this evil nature and it puts us all, by default, under God’s condemnation. There is only one God and only one mediator between God and Man: the man Christ Jesus. There is one and only one way for anybody’s destiny to be changed from eternity in hell to eternity in heaven. Our destiny can be changed from eternity in hell to eternity in heaven in a moment. Each person needs to acknowledge they are a totally depraved sinner, repent of their sins, turn to Christ and submit to Him as Lord and Savior. Repentance does not mean doing penance (punishing yourself) or doing good deeds. It means changing your mind about sin and deciding that you do not want to sin against God anymore, as much as you can help it. After you do this, you are born again, and cannot ever be kicked out of the Kingdom of Heaven, no matter what!
I don’t know where you stand in your beliefs. I and millions, if not billions, of people assert that there is compelling, overwhelming evidence that the Bible is literally the Word of God. And that the main message of the Bible is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some of this evidence is scientific: all “science” which is proposed that contradicts the Bible, in the long run, turns out to be itself, scientifically refutable. This includes the Big Bang theory, the theory of evolution, and the claimed old ages of the Earth and the universe. For a treatise on why the Big Bang theory is scientifically refutable, visit my website, www.cosministry.com. (If you go to this website, please don’t click on the “Discussion” link, because I am not maintaining this website and the discussion forum link is inoperable. But please do go to the article entitled “Big Bang Busted.” This website is best viewed on a desktop PC or laptop, not on a mobile device.) For why the theory of evolution is scientifically refutable, there are many sources to go to. The website of the Institute for Creation Research is a good place to start for all your science inquiries: www.icr.org.
Part of the evidence behind the claim that the Bible is the Word of God is historic: the pattern as to history is as the same for science. The pattern is, that in the long run, all discrepancies between standard knowledge of science and history and the Bible, get cleared up in the Bible’s favor. For instance, the ancient, biblical city of Ur was thought to be mythical. Then archeologists found its remains. The most compelling evidence is the astonishing fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about the coming Jewish Messiah which were realized in the life of Jesus Christ. If you have even a rudimentary knowledge of the Bible, you know that only one Person, mentioned in the Bible, is said to have died for the sins of others. This Person is Jesus Christ. The Old Testament prophet, Isaiah, for example, wrote about the Messiah, 700 to 800 years before Christ was born! He wrote, among other things, “God has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
If you want to do a detailed study about these kinds of things, google “Christian apologetics.” I have enclosed the text of a tract called “The Search for Truth,” which, with its included Sinner’s Prayer, might be helpful to you. I pray for you and yours.
IN SEARCH OF TRUTH
By Josh McDowell
Few people have been more sincere than I in trying— without success—to find meaning, truth, and purpose in life.
At the university I noticed a small group of people—eight students and two faculty members—who seemed different. They seemed to know what they believed and why. I wanted what I saw.
Two weeks later, while I was sitting with some of them in the student union, the conversation turned to God. That bothered me, because I thought it was not intellectual. And yet I was curious.
Leaning back in my chair, I said to one of the students, “Tell me, what has made you so different from others?”
She looked me in the eye with a little smile and said, “Jesus Christ!”
My response revealed my bias and my ignorance. “Oh, for heaven’s sake,” I said. “Don’t give me that garbage about religion!”
She replied, “I didn’t say ‘religion.’ I said ‘Jesus Christ.’”
My new friends challenged me to examine the claims of Christ. I thought most Christians were idiots. But these people were persistent. Finally, I accepted their challenge, but I did so out of pride, to refute them.
One of the claims I researched was Christ’s resurrection. And after more than one thousand hours of study, I concluded that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was either one of the most vicious hoaxes ever foisted upon human minds or the most fantastic fact of history.
Jesus of Nazareth, a Jewish prophet, claimed to be the Christ prophesied in the Jewish Scriptures. He was arrested, judged a political criminal, and crucified. Three days after his death and burial, some women went to his tomb and found his body gone. His disciples claimed that God had raised him from the dead and that he had appeared to them and to many others at various times before ascending into heaven.
In my attempt to refute Christianity, I made some startling observations. Until then, I’d had no idea there was so much historical, literary, and legal testimony supporting the factuality of Christ’s resurrection. But the more I investigated, the more evidence I found, including Jesus’s foretelling of his resurrection.
Prior to his death, he took his disciples aside and told them that he would be condemned to death and handed over to the Romans who would mock him and spit on him, flog him, and kill him. And three days later he would rise from the dead (Mark 10:33–34).
The more I studied the Christian faith, the more I realized it is a thinking person’s faith. As Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).
Having set out to refute the resurrection and Christianity, and then having been compelled by the evidence to believe that Jesus Christ was indeed exactly who he claimed to be, I faced a new problem. My mind was saying, “Christianity is true,” but my will was saying, “Don’t admit it!”
It came to the point where I couldn’t sleep at night. I knew I had to get Jesus off my mind or go out of my mind. Finally, on December 19, 1959, at 8:30 p.m., I became a Christian.
I prayed four things that night to establish a relationship with the resurrected, living Christ who has since transformed my life. First, I said, “Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for me.” Second, I said, “I confess there are things in my life that are not pleasing to you. I ask you to forgive and cleanse me.” (The Bible says, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow,” Isaiah 1:18.) Third, I said, “Right now, in the best way I know how, I open the door of my heart and life, and I trust you as my Savior and Lord. Thank you for coming into my life by faith.”
After I prayed, nothing happened. There was no bolt of lightning. I even said to myself, “Oh, no! What’d I get sucked into now?” I felt I’d gone off the deep end. And some of my friends agreed. But I can tell you now that in the months following, I found that I had not gone off the deep end. For one thing, I had finally found mental peace. I had also found control of my temper. And old hatreds were gradually turning to love.
You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it changes lives. Christianity cannot be forced on anyone. All I can do is tell you what I’ve learned. Beyond that, it’s your decision.
Christ was raised from the dead. He lives. He has the infinite capacity to enter your life, forgive you, and change you from the inside out.
Adapted from The Resurrection Factor, published by Here’s Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California.