Nothing but His grace.
Let us say you have a girlfriend (I am a guy so I say girlfriend. Just transpose the gender if you’re a girl. It shouldn’t be hard, society transposes gender everyday…). Her name is Beautiful. Now lets say that Mocking and Foolish, two popular guys, star-athletes and well respected by the world, come up to Beautiful and slap her. They spit in her face they call her fat and ugly, they cut her flesh and they torment her. We could go further and say that Mr. Worldly comes and joins Mocking and Foolish in the activities. Now Beautiful is raped and her friends are murdered because they know you. That’s central, it’s because they know you and love you. What is your first reaction? I bet it is extreme wrath.
Does this seem too surreal? Too extreme and unrealistic? Then why does it happen every single day since the beginning of time!?
God has a bride, more than a girlfriend, but a companion inseparable. That bride is the Christian church, the body of believers that live out the faith they profess. No not the buildings. No not one denomination over another though there are some with a higher population of believers over others. And every day believers are mocked, killed, and debased because they love the Most High King. Christians arent killed everyday , you fanatic! Where do we throw them into arenas with gladiators and starving lions like back in the day? Where are they persecuted for knowing your king?
Go to…well, anywhere…and open your eyes! Go to Tibet and China and see how the underground church is hunted and sought after for denying the claims of atheistic communism or demonic Buddhism. Go to the middle east where our very ancestral brothers blow themselves up in the name of Islam and wage jihad on the infidels. What is an infidel? Christians and Jews especially, hated ever since Isaac was chosen over Ishmael (Genesis 17:17-21).
You don’t even have to go that far. Listen to the news. See how there is constant debate over the authenticity of Christianity. Watch the Discovery Channel or the National Geographic Channel as they capitalize on the doubts and criticisms of Christ with the “gospels” of heretical gnostics. Look at the cars that drive by. Some will have an outline of a fish with the name Jesus in English or Greek inside. This fish is a historical symbol to the church, it’s an identifier. Now look again and see the fish with feet and the name “Darwin” in the outline. It is bitterness and nastiness, it is the world defying their king!
And this attack will only get worse. More and more people will turn away from the Lord God in disgust because His message does not allow for them to live the lifestyle of iniquity that they wish. “Rev.” Jeffery John, homosexual bishop of the Anglican Church, refuses to believe in the very center, the apex, of Christianity. He refuses to believe that God would send His only son to die on the cross to redeem mankind of their sins. Why does he refuse? Well, he doesn’t think humanity needs to be redeemed from hell, there probably is no hell, and no nasty ole Satan that tempts us and tricks us into sin and therefore no need for a belief in some psychopathic infanticidal “idea”. Rev. John has been given up to his sins, he has traded the truth for a foolish and futile lie. There is no hell and no judgment. God, if there is a God, is love and mercy only.
Then why is Christianity THE debate of all debates? Why do we still grow fearful at the thought of the Resurrection? Why don’t we debate Buddhism or Zorastians and grow fiery angry and have little fish contradicting their beliefs on our cars? Because the founders of those false religions are dead and were dust long ago! But Christ is risen, proving His divinity and His faithfulness. Why did He die!? Because we are wretched felons, murderers and adulterers in our hearts! We, all of the world, have broken the just law of the Creator God, and the penalty is death. Death. SHEOL, HELL, HADES, DEATH! But for His sake, because He loved us so, He sent His only son, the Word of God whom was God, to die for us and to take the penalty for us on the cross!
AWAKE WORLD! Wake up from your iniquities! Wake up from your lifestyle of debauchery, drunkenness and loathed sin! Awake and turn to the LORD GOD whom was and is and is to come. Beat your chests in grief for turning away from Him that loves you most. Repent for the rule of God is coming! PLEASE I BESEECH YOU to not tarry upon your confession of His lordship over your life!
If you tarry you will perish. You will be guilty of not giving God the glory He deserves. Why does He deserve anything? Because He is God. “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” –Revelation 4:11
Become His beloved. Seek the Lord God with all your heart. Nothing we can do can wash away the guilt and shame, the mark of sinner from our souls. Nothing but His grace.
Becky said,
April 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Buddhism is just as persecuted in Tibet as any other religion. And they don’t worship demons, or really do anything demonic at all, so I’m not exactly sure where the “demonic” comes from.
Becky said,
April 11, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Also: I don’t think Buddhists HAVE a “Christian fish” equivalent, so having a symbol mocking it on your car would be difficult to say the least.
cottonwoodwatson said,
April 11, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Yanluowang (Yama in Sanskrit) is the name of the cheif diety in Buddhism. He is the lord of death, the god of hell. In the temples there are images and statues of him raping and torturing his subjects. The monks mediate on this constantly. They know they will be with Yanluowang in death so they go through intricate, painstaking, ceremonies like bowing low and praying evey couple of inches over great lengths to minimize the suffering they will have. Boys below a certain age are not allowed in the temples because the monks would rape them and molest them over and over again night after night because their minds were filled with the filth of these images of their god doing the same.
Tell me again how it is not demonic.
I dont make this up. What a horrid thing to imagine and create. Becky, you should go there because you never see this on Mtv or in “Seven Years in Tibet” because then it wouldn’t be hip or pop-culture. The lies would be exposed and society wouldn’t have an alternative to the One and Only.
Becky said,
April 11, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I’ve never Seven Years in Tibet. Is it any good?
And on topic: I have no idea what Buddhism you’re talking about; Buddhism doesn’t have any dieties per se. They have teachers, but they’re much like the prophets from other faiths. And of course, you could be right about some monks molesting children, but that’s true of any faith, including Christianity. I sincerely doubt that it’s institutionalized, though if you can show me your sources I’m open to be proved wrong.
On that note, these are the ACTUAL basics of Buddhism, none of which mention anything about ANY god, let alone one of death. The entire website is actually pretty thorough; I just picked the basics page as it is the most concise. http://buddhanet.net/e-learning/5minbud.htm
cottonwoodwatson said,
April 11, 2007 at 1:33 pm
http://buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_chron-txt.htm From the same site is a history of how Buddhism came about. Note that there are in these boxes names and regions that, for the life of me, I cant begin to imagine how to pronounce. It shows the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia, including India. This shows a relationship between Buddhism and Hinduism. Why is that important? Yama, answers to Sheva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama). No I dont think wikipedia is 100% reliable.
Here, http://buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/deities.htm, again from the site you prescribed, are some of the deities of Buddhism.
And dont mistake me in saying these kids are molested because they are Buddhist. As you rightly pointed out, Becky, it has happened in Christianity too. From Catholics to Baptists. Sin is the cause of this. Sin is falling short of the glory of God. Breaking His law. We can be redeemed, not by hail marys, or karma/darma ratios, by by the blood of Jesus Christ who stands at the door of your heart, knocking, awaiting to you to let Him in and love you. Let Him in.