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Do I Really Need a Savior?
 A lot
of pain and suffering in the world has come about in the name of religion.
The church today is just another business, trying to gain wealth, power, and
success. People would be better off taking care of each other rather than
worrying about religion. And who needs a god anyway, since it is well
known that we evolved from monkeys, and the universe came about on its own with
a Big Bang without any help from a god.
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Yes! God is the Creator and
Sustainer of the universe.
Today's world would have us believe that there is no
need for God, and no need for a Savior like Jesus Christ.
They exchanged the truth of God for a
lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is
forever praised.
-
Romans
1:25
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been
made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- John
1:1-4 |
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How many stumbling blocks, obstacles, rationalizations,
reasons, and excuses will the world conjure up for not believing in God?
In Jesus' day, as it is in some parts of the world today, belief in Jesus could
lead to physical persecution and death. More commonly today, however, are
intellectual and social obstacles toward us developing a simple faith in Jesus.
All angles are attacked: The church and clergy are portrayed as corrupt.
Believers in Christ are thought of a fools and hypocrites. The Bible's
account of Creation is attacked with every new "missing link" in evolution and
new theory about the forming of the universe receiving front page attention by
the press (and the rebuttal and eventual disproving of these theories receiving
no attention by the press). Jesus himself is discredited in modern day
literature, which is portrayed as fact by the media rather than the fiction that
it is. Attempts are made at the legislative level to remove any mention of
God from all governmental areas, as if the government needed to be
protected from religion rather than the other way around. Where will it
all end?
Actually, the theme of individuals and society
abandoning belief in God for there own personal beliefs is a recurring theme in
the Bible. In Paul's letter to the developing Roman church, the
progressive decline in a society that does not believe in God is vividly
described. What was true then is true today. Please take the time to
read Romans 1:18-32 here, and see if it does not describe today's society, even
though this was written almost 2000 years ago:
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness
and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what
may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to
them. 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.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him
as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their
foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became
fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look
like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of
their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one
another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served
created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same
way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed
with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and
received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to
retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters,
insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things
deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also
approve of those who practice them.
Why does belief in God and Jesus
receive such negative publicity, while a belief in evolution and a permissive
Godless society receive such positive publicity today? Because belief in
God and Jesus makes us look at ourselves as the sinners that we all are (all
Christians included), and belief in Jesus leads us to change our sinful ways.
Only through the saving power of Jesus Christ can we even begin to become right
in God's eyes. After we first turn to Jesus as our personal Savior, our
eyes will be opened to the lies and deceptions that the world and society has
been bombarding us with, and we will be given the strength to resist them.
For more information about accepting
Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, click on one of the links below:
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