Time Factor.
Many people today excuse the bible as a book of nothing more than a fantasy, because of its dating of history. The new religion of science can now prove ages and times! But this excepted fact may be wrong and the bible will be proved right.
The acknowledgement of God and facing up to human failure are the reality for most people when it comes to the Christian faith. Our God is of the impossible and of miracles, so we must not loose heart with this unbelieving world. John 1:1-18.
Conflicts and Wars.
This is a part of the human condition Sin, it leads us to do what we want to without considering the outcome at a later point. Humanity has always had the problem of disagreements from the family tiff to political, religious rows. Usally someone has offered their services of mediations and this has calmed the situation down.
But as we have seen on our televisons recently many lands are going through various phases of Revoloutions, with horrible violence. It is almost always the woman and children that suffer in these situations. Apart from the Arab Spring, the world is seening rioting and terror in Venuzuela, Thailand, Bosnia, Turkey and now the Ukraine.
Many of these conflicts have a deep rooted Sectarianism to them, which the Media is desperatly trying to hide from us with other names. Despite all of this as believers in Jesus, we have to push on through showing no favoritism. Instead we need to pray for a resolve quicly and a restoration of elected government.
Psalm 2:2, Ecclesiastes 7:19, Romans 13:3, Ephesians 6:12, Titus 3:1.
Human Nature.
People cannot help anger and hateing each other, they find excuses to start a row over nothing. on a domestic scale this can become bad enough, but on larger global scale it will lead to war and conflicts. A third party can help to resolve any situation, but then the hardness of our stubborness sets in to block off the mediation.
Wars are caused by the inherent Sin and selfishness of the human heart a condition that does not even leave those who have faith in God. But to have faith in God and a personal relationship does help us to see our own faults and ask the lord to help us, intead of ignoring or denying in the first place.
Genesis 6:5, Deuteronomy 29:19, Proverbs 6:17-19, Matthew 15:18-19, Mark 7:21-23.
The state of the British Church now seems to have entered the age of apostasy, every Sin is acceptable? Because we are all victims. But we are warned in 1 Timothy 4:1-2, that this will happen, it did happen in the early Church to an extent. When ascetic ideals were introduced to self-abasement, but today it is the moral code re-sexuality that is being excused in a complete contradiction to the word of God. Romans chapter one. The Bible has been watered down to the point of choosing the bits that suit personal preferences.
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