Sunday, August 28, 2005

Some thoughts for today

I have written these in a forum. Thought of putting them in my blog. :)
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If there are no laws, sin will not be taken into account. The reason there are laws is to judge sins and to make sins known.
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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned -- for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. (Romans 5:12-14)
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The penalty of sin is death and so everyone has to die once! The second death will be in the lake of fire for the unsaved. What is sin? Why all sinned? Read this: http://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-sin.html
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
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Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, (Hebrews 9:27) The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:13-15)
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Some bible scholar believes that in the days of Noah, the people were even more evil and violence than now. But God found Noah to be righteous and Noah's ark saved his family. Now Jesus Christ died for all so that all can be saved (in God's pure justice) and He has become our ark of life.
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It seems that the current situations are changing and people are becoming more evil and violence. There is no place that can be considered safe than before. I believe it will reach a point where it will become more worse.
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For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now -- and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. (Matthew 24:21-22)
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Amen.
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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. (Romans 8:20-25)
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Since sin came into the world, everyone and everything is subjected to decay. We are frustrated by the daily stuff. From childbirth to the present age, who has not been groaning in pains, the world, the society has caused upon individual? Hope. Yes, everyone is looking for hope and they are looking for hope elsewhere which is usually short-lived, and empty. If hope can be seen, then should we call it a hope? Where can we find hope? Yes, in the One who will bring us out of this bondage to decay. The Truth will set us free!

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Friday, August 19, 2005

Man-making competition

I have many thoughts but I just can't sit down, quiet myself down and put them into words. This is not so easy task to people who are not that good in languages. I will try to post them after this semester final examinations. Even though I have no time to write long posts but I am able to find the time to publish short post. =)
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There's a story about a group of scientists who decided that humans could do without God. So one of them looked up to God and said, "We've decided that we no longer need You. We have enough wisdom to clone people and do many miraculous things."

God listened patiently and then said, "Very well, let's have a man-making contest. We'll do it just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The scientists agreed, and one of them bent down and picked up a handful of dirt. God looked at him and said, "No! You have to make your own dirt!" (Extracted from ODB August 3, 2005)

Even the dirt belongs to God!

The Bible tells us,

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1; 53:1).

"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen" (Romans 1:25).

"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" (Romans 1:20).

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