In Search of True Life

  When God creates something, He creates it with purpose and design . The Genesis account of creation makes it clear that God’s creation is “good” ( Genesis 1:31 ). But mankind has a history of distorting what God has made, whether out of ignorance or just plain stubbornness. The golden calf ( idol ) of the Israelites , for example. Gold is beautiful to look at, but God clearly did not want His people worshipping it. Sex (and yes, sex was God’s idea) is no different. God created it, and therefore it is reasonable to expect that it is good. But when man distorts it by ignoring God’s specific standards, it becomes harmful and destructive. So the question we’ve asked “why save sex for marriage” is really a question of understanding God’s purpose and design for sex. We can choose to do things God’s way, and experience the beauty of His plan, or we can choose to do things our way, and experience harm and destruction ( Proverbs 16:25 ). So, l...

    In earlier generations, this question was very seldom raised, simply because divorce was almost never encountered among Christians and was unusual even in the general population. Today, however, it has become a very real problem in evangelical Christian circles. Infidelity is no longer rare, even among Christian leaders, and one can hear almost weekly of some new pastoral “affair” and its traumatic effect on his church. With such examples in the leadership, it is bound to be even more common among the ordinary members, and the resulting decline in the stability of the Christian home today is surely one of the more alarming signs of the times. In the past, attempts to deal with this question on a Biblical basis have tended to be somewhat academic, probably because the very idea of divorce was so alien to the expositor's own experiences. Nowadays, however, since the tragedy of divorce has spread so widely that almost every C...

  The greatest drama in history The good news without the bad news is not news at all Genesis Ch 3 is unique in the world because it gives us coherent answers to the fundamental questions we ask ourselves: What is the origin of the evil ? Where does the suffering come from ? Why are we dying ? Please open your Bible in the book of Genesis, in chapter 3 Genesis 2 v 16: "The Lord God gave this order to man: You may eat from all the trees in the garden, but you will not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat it, you will surely die." The fall of our parents in 6 steps: Genesis 3 v 1: The serpent sows doubt of the Word of God in the heart of the woman. V 2 and 3: The woman tries to get by alone by talking with the snake, her husband does not protect her. V 4 and 5: The Devil who speaks through the serpent reverses God's plan. V 6a: She looks at the tree and lets herself be seduced, instead of asking for help from God and Adam. ...