When huge pain comes into your life like divorce whatever was the reason for it, or the loss of a precious family member, or the dream of wholeness shattered. it is good to have a few things settled with God ahead of time. The reason for this is not because it makes grieving easy, but because it gives focus and boundaries for the pain. Being confident in God does not make the pain less deep, but less broad, if some things are settled with God, there are boundaries around the field of pain. In fact, by being focused and bounded, the pain of loss may go deeper as a river with banks runs deeper than a flood plain. “Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” The question is why does Jesus let the devil do this? Why does he let the devil throw his precious followers in jail and even kill some of them or make them suffer? And what is being tested? The answer is given in the way Jesus describes what passing the test looks like, He says, “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life” Faithfulness to Jesus is being tested. Will his loved ones keep trusting him? Will they keep believing that he has their best interest at heart? That he is wise? That he is good? That he is stronger than all? So there are a thousand things that God is doing every time something painful happens to you, most of these you do not know or understand but there is always one thing you can know God is doing when pain comes into your life, this is something you can settle with God ahead of time he is always testing us. If the test leads to your death “You will receive the crown of life” that means he will raise you from the dead and will crown you with the kind of everlasting joy in his presence that will make up for your loses ten-thousand-fold. “Crown” signifies majestic, royal restoration and exaltation, passing the test means loving God to the end. Loss and pain are coming into our life, but Jesus is infinitely stronger than the devil so even if the devil is causing it, Jesus is letting it happen and he always has his reasons more than we can know. We cannot answer every WHY question but there is always this answer: My faith is being tested and our Lord never wastes his tests, whether we believe this truth or no.
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said:some claimed that it is strong and indestructible us the sun, others the moon, the fire, the big bear up the mountain or the big monster in the lake.
People started to worship what they believed to be the ultimate creator.
Some claimed to be sent down from the creator himself, and as proof they have gods commandments and words.
How ever, till this very moment, no one has managed to prove the existence of this creator, the only evidence that there is are ancient scripts that are full of false scientific claims.
No I am not claiming
Think of it this way, you believe that Christianity is the true way to heaven, and these commandments and holy scripts indeed carry the words of god.
Then how came other religions such as Islam and Buddhism are to some extinct similar in popularity, similar in advice, message, scientific errors etc..
How can mans creation equal or surpass gods creation? (if you believe that Christianity is the true and only true religion, then all the others are man made)
look at the difference between what we call gods creation and mans creation, everything that man makes is no were close to what god makes.
look at the stars, or look at the horses and our cars, our creation might suit us more to our purposes but is no were close to the perfection in animals, our cars do nothing but damage our planet and put all life at risk because of their wastes.
enough for now, I can discuss more with you if you are interested.
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said:I am not claiming that there is no higher power or intelligence or consciousness, I am just starting the fact that we don't know or can prove the existence of any.
Now many religions claimed that they know but they have all been proven false scientifically and logically.
So my answer is that if there is indeed an ultimate creator, we don't know anything at all about him yet.
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mmm, I don't really know were to start, I am in a hard situation to be honest, you haven't based any of your conclusions on existing evidence for me to double check but instead based them on what you have been told to be the words of god.
Now, if these are the words of god? to me, that is very unlikely but I can't disprove them with evidence in anyway to not be the words of god, nor can you prove the opposite, so we will just have to accept each others understandings and move to the next point for the sake of the discussion.
We know today, that a long time ago, tens of thousands of years ago, were we humans were in the middle of an evolutionary step that has developed us from homo-sapience (an ape like mammal)into what we call our selves today us Humans, along the way our brains have developed, we started to become creative, we started to make drawings on the walls, paintings, music, beautiful homes and started to bury the dead loved ones with all their belongings, they added jewelry and flowers to their graves too.
Their behavior made it easier for them to accept the death of their beloved ones, the fact that they are buried in a good, respectful, beautiful way, should make it easier for them.
thus makes it easier for the rest of the family to move on.
peopled started to believe that people go some were after they die, hence their bodies disappear, different cultures had their own believes on were these bodies disappear and had their own methods of burying (also known as prayers).
These believes made it easier for the people to move on once they loose a family member so they adapted them and passed them from generation to the next.
At this point they had different religions, their believes have evolved as well by time, some believed in a higher power that takes the dead ones and create the new lives, some claimed that it is strong and indestructible us the sun, others the moo