Month: June 2011

Religious Left started by Judas Iscariot

“Should not this expensive perfume have been sold and the money given to the poor?”

Judas was trying to tell Mary what to do with HER money, when all along it was just a ploy for HIM to get HIS hands on it.

Q: You know what a kilobyte and a megabyte is. What is a Moabite?

A: It’s a Lot.

Q: Where did Cain get his wife?

A: He married his brother’s sister because he was Able.

I’ve been asked if I take the Bible “literally”. This is often a trap, as there are many literary devices used in Scripture.

Where the Bible gives accounts of historical events, yes it can and should be taken literally.

Where the Bible employees poetry, such as Psalm 91 where it says that God has wings and feathers, it should be taken figuratively.

The problem with liberal theology is that they want to “spiritualize” and “allegorize” everything. When you do that, you can make the Bible say anything you want.

I’ve heard folks say that they rely on the statistics for what is true. How can a majority of people be wrong? How comes the Bible goes against the “common intuition” of man?

This actually proves the Bible as true!

Scripture says that the heart of man is decietful. Man has a fallen natutre. The wisdom of man is at odds with the wisdom of God. God uses the simple to confound the wise, that no man can take credit.

Jesus said that the path to destruction is wide and many travel it, while the path to life is narrow and there are few that find it.

Keep in mind that in spite of Noah spending 100 years building the Ark and preaching to the people of the day, nobody got on the boat except Noah’s 8 member family.

What about people living in remote places where they never hear the gospel?

This is a good question that I often hear, and often ponder myself. While I don’t have an answer that will satisfy most people, here is what I have found so far in scripture…

1. People don’t go to hell because they havn’t accepted Jesus, they go to hell because of sins they have committed. Jesus came to save the world, but people still choose to reject Him. (Romans 6:23)

2. Everyone is without excuse, because the evidence for the Creator can be clearly seen in His creation. (Romans 1:20)

3. God foreknows who will respond to the Gospel, and He arranges for them to learn what they need to know about God. (Romans 8:29, 11:2) All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13)

How can a loving God send anyone to hell? He doesn’t send anyone to hell. God is not willing that any should perish. (2Peter 3:9) Hell is the alternative to being in God’s direct presence for those who willingly reject God. God originally created hell for the rebellious angels (Matthew 25:41) and hell was enlarged to accommodate rebellious man. (Isaiah 5:14) The truth is God Himself, motivated by His Love, took our place and died for our sins so we would not have to go to hell.

The real question, is how can anyone reject a Loving God?

Power corrupts [man], and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power attracts corrupt power-hungry men the way a lamp attracts moths.

The more centralized and concentrated the power, the more corrupt the men in charge.

In a nation, the leaders tend to be the most corrupt and power-hungry in that nation.

Once we have a world governance body, the men in charge will be the most corrupt in the world.