I believe:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 04:07PM
That death is very real and devastating. But that there is life after death. That we cannot achieve this on our own, but need help from someone who can save us, and wants to save us. I believe the historical Jesus fits this description.
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I Believe:
Jesus is perfect and we are not. Nor, because of Jesus' love and sacrifice do we need to be. A relationship with Jesus, that is, giving ourselves over to him, is all that is “required” of us to be saved from death because of this sacrifice.
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Therefore I believe:
Our salvation has nothing to do with rules, culture or even The Law. In our current world, The Law is only a marker revealing our need of Jesus. We therefore live by faith not by works.
Living in faith means we accept Jesus as our Savior - simply allowing Jesus to do the hard stuff for us. Living by works has us trying constantly to work things out to save ourselves. This has a certain attraction for us humans - but can lead to a life of fear. Alas, fear and faith cannot coexist. We can alternate between fear and faith, but we cannot do both simultaneously.
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I believe:
That there is also a devil. And that the devil does not love or hate me. The devil could not care less about me. The devil hates God. And God loves me. So, seeing as the devil has not been able to directly hurt God, he is currently going after the ones God loves.
I Believe the Devil has Gods Attention.
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I believe:
That we do not know it all - that we only know a small part of what is going on. My experience tells me this lack of knowledge is to save my life. Due to huge gaps in our true information, it can sometimes seem that 2 opposite things are portrayed as true. This is called a paradox. It is only by embracing these paradoxes that we begin to see who God truly is. This is becoming my life's work and passion.
Of course, what I believe means nothing if my acts do not come out of my beliefs.
