What the Bible says about light and seed

The True Light "In him, (the Lord Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world,…the world didn’t recognize him." John 1:4,9.

The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. Matthew 13:24,25.

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Master, the Tempest Is Raging Praise and Harmony on Victorious God.

 

1 Master, the tempest is raging!The billows are tossing high! The sky is o'ershadowed with blackness, No shelter or help is nigh; Carest thou not that we perish?" How canst thou lie asleep, When each moment so madly is threat'ning A grave in the angry deep?

 Refrain: The winds and the waves shall obey thy will. "Peace, be still!" Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea, Or demons or men, or whatever it be, No water can swallow the ship where lies the Master of ocean and earth and skies: They all shall sweetly obey thy will. "Peace, be still! Peace, be still!" They all shall sweetly obey thy will. "Peace, peace, be still!" 

2 Master, with anguish of spirit I bow in my grief today; The depths of my sad heart are troubled, Oh, waken and save, I pray; Torrents of sin and of anguish Sweep o’er my sinking soul! And I perish! I perish, dear Master: Oh, hasten and take control. [Refrain] 

3 Master, the terror is over, The elements sweetly rest; Earth’s sun in the calm lake is mirrored, And heaven’s within my breast. Linger, O blessed Redeemer, Leave me alone no more; And with joy I shall make the blest harbor, And rest on the blissful shore. [Refrain]

Friday, December 22, 2023

THINK ABOUT HIS LOVE Maranatha singers

 

This salvation which starts as a spiritual seed planted by the Holy Spirit Himself in the hearts of men who have received Him on His terms is ever expanding and revealing the loving heart of our Heavenly Father at this time of the year and all year long. "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us". Romans 5:5 

Paul prays for the Ephesians in Ephesians 3:14-17 that: "He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through His spirit in the inner man so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and that you being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." This is also my prayer for all of us today and for the coming year. https://thelightseed.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-eternal-spring-of-joy-peace-and.html

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF GOD IS THAT THE TRUTH OF GOD IS SIMPLE -- by Jack Kinsella -

Reposted by Jean-Louis Mondon

One of the most difficult things to grasp about Christianity is its simplicity. It is that simplicity that has spawned literally hundreds of denominations and thousands of cults, sects and sub-sects, all of whom are convinced they have discovered some hidden and complicated truth nobody else ever discovered.
 
There is a old saying that "the simple truth of God is that the truth of God is simple" and old sayings generally become old sayings because they are true.
 
"The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me." (Psalms 116:6)
 
There is probably no truth explained more simply than the basic doctrine of salvation. It is so simple that a little child can understand it. It is a question that can be answered in a single sentence.
 
"And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31)
 
Many even seek to complicate that simple answer by focusing on the words "and thy house" instead of simply reading the next verse for context.
 
"And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house." (Acts 16:32)
 
That's how people get saved. That's how the jailer got saved, and that's how his family, or his "house" got saved. That's how YOU got saved. By hearing the Word of the Lord.
 
"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." (Romans 10:17)
 
It's not so complicated. When somebody asks you, "what must I do to be saved?" the answer is the same today as it was when the jailer asked the question of Paul and Silas. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, and . . .
quit smoking
quit drinking
stop running around with unsaved friends
go to church
don't sin
Oh, and a bunch of other stuff, depending on which denomination you end up joining. There are entire websites devoted to showing all the extra stuff you have to do in order to stay saved. But the simple truth of God is simple.
 
"What must I do to be saved?" the jailer asked.
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees to name the greatest commandment, it was an effort to trap Him into complicating the simple truth of God. Once the simple truth of God can be complicated, it can be twisted beyond recognition.
 
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40)
 
So, having dealt with the question," what must I do to be saved?", what about the question, 'what must I do to stay saved?' It isn't all that complicated.
 
You simply love God above all things and love your neighbor as yourself, do everything on the first list and. . .
keep the Sabbath (Saturday or Sunday, depending on which denomination you end up with)
confess your sins regularly (unless you belong to a group devoted to finding ways you can lose your salvation)
obey most of the ten commandments (most let you skip over the graven images stuff)
live your life in an exemplary fashion (compliance is in the eye of the beholder)
 
It is human nature to complicate the simple. It is at the heart of every lie since the very first lie told in the Garden of Eden. God gave Adam and Eve one simple rule. It wasn't complicated, so Satan had to find a way to make it seem complicated.
 
That first lie was delivered in three parts.
"Your eyes shall be opened."
Satan wants us to believe that somehow, as Christians, we can understand the Mind of God. But God Himself says that is impossible.
 
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9)
The idea that "our eyes shall be opened" carries with it some suggestion that we are privy to some secret, hidden knowlege of God. The truth is that we are made privy to some secret, heretofore hidden, knowledge about OURSELVES.
 
That we are sinners who stand guilty and without excuse before a Righteous God.
To try and divine the truth about God's promise based on the witness of another implies our eyes have been 'opened' to something only God can know. The condition of another's heart.
 
The second part of that lie is like unto the first; "Knowing good from evil." Human beings know right from wrong. Good and evil are outcomes -- and outcomes are known ONLY to God.
 
Each of us has tons of personal examples in our own lives we can look to for confirmation of that truth, usually those things of which we say, "I wouldn't go through that again for anything, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
 
What seemed exceedingly evil at the time, as time goes on, reveals itself to have been, in fact, a good thing. Who knows what God has planned for someone else's life that will come out of their current state of witness?
 
What is impossible for God?
One need look no farther than Joseph for Biblical evidence of that fact. Joseph's brothers threw him down a well, and later sold him into slavery because they were jealous of his relationship with their father.
Joseph subsequently rose to the position of the second most powerful man in Egypt, just as a famine threatened to wipe out the sons of Israel and their families. They went to Egypt, where Joseph, having been warned by God, had stored up food against the coming famine.
Had Joseph not been in the position he was at the time, his brothers, who were not Egyptians, would have been turned away to starve. God had a plan for Israel and it didn't involve them starving to death before it could come to fruition.
 
As Joseph himself noted in Genesis 45:3-8, his brothers meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.
 
In setting up the Oldest Lie in the Book, Satan questioned God's Word;
"Yea, hath God said . . . ?" (Genesis 3:1)
 
The question led to Eve's ADDING to the Word of God: "neither shall ye touch it" -- God didn't say that. God said,
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Genesis 2:17)
 
We are indirectly questioning God's faithfulness based on the evidence of some individual's unfaithfulness. We judge the guy as evil without certain knowledge of the outcome and we end up questioning God as a result. Do you see it?
 
The third part is "Ye shall be as gods." If we can question God's ability to preserve one's salvation based on the bad works of the one who we believe is saved, then it follows that we play a role in saving ourselves. But only God has the power to save:
 
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2:21)
 
You can't really make it less complicated than Paul did to the Galatians. "If righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." How much simpler can it be?
 
Think about that. If one can attain righteousness by being obedient, then He was sacrificed for nothing, since that was already the condition of sinful mankind before He began His ministry.
The simple truth of God is that at the point of salvation, one becomes a new creature.
 
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
 
That's not complicated. A caterpillar is a little fuzzy worm, distinct and different from a winged insect. Then the caterpillar goes into a cocoon and is transformed. When it emerges, the caterpillar no longer exists, but in its place is a new, winged creature called a butterfly.
 
The butterfly isn't a caterpillar with wings -- it is an entirely new creature. Remove the wings and it still isn't a caterpillar. It is a one-way transformation. Once it’s a butterfly, it isn't what it WILL be, it is what it IS.
That is why it is called TRANSFORMATION. It is permanent and irrevocable.
 
"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." (Galatians 6:15)
Becoming a 'new creature' in Christ is NOT a future event -- it CANNOT be, since it takes place at the moment of salvation. The transformation is complete at that moment. The rest is up to Jesus.
 
"Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" (Philippians 1:6)
 
Could it be made any simpler? Who is it that began a good work in you at the moment of salvation?
That is a critical question, since the Bible says that the one that began the good work in you is the one that is charged with performing it until Jesus comes for His Church. Fortunately for us, there is a simple answer to the critical question.
 
The Bible says at the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in you, and from that moment forward, He will guide you into all truth. (John 16:13) That's pretty simple and straightforward. The Holy Spirit not only indwells us and guides us, He also comforts and assures us.
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" (Romans 8:16)
 
Jesus said that He would send the Comforter and that He would abide with us until the Lord returns for His Church.
 
"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." (John 14:18)
So, the Comforter, Who is our guide, will indwell us and bear witness with us until the Day of Jesus Christ. He is the One that began the good work and He will abide with us until we see Jesus, either at the Rapture or when we die.
 
It's pretty simple.
Salvation comes by believing in Jesus as Lord and trusting Him for your salvation.
 
Once saved, one is transformed into a new creature that isn't the old creature.
 
The transformation is accomplished by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The Lord Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will indwell us until He comes for us.
 
IF I saved myself by my behavior and IF I effected the transformation by an act of my own will, THEN by my behavior I can condemn myself and transform myself back into the old creature.
Pretty simple, really.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

The Church as a Lighthouse

Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon

O faro, minha estrutura humana favorita cujo propósito é alertar e salvar vidas humanas do perigo do mar. Essa imágem aparece na foto de cabeçalho do meu blog. Cuidado quando a luz se apaga durante noites escuras. Mas a luz divina nunca se apaga e brilha nas trevas! 
 
Não podemos pensar que este sistema de alerta protetor contra os perigos do mar furioso pode ser substituido com um clube que provee entretenimento e engano para pessoas pensando que são salvos quando de fato não é a estrutura que os protege mas a Luz divina que brilla dentro dela. 
 
²¹ E chamou ao menino Icabode, dizendo: De Israel se foi a glória! Porque a arca de Deus foi tomada, e por causa de seu sogro e de seu marido.
 
²² E disse: De Israel a glória é levada presa; pois é tomada a arca de Deus. 1 Samuel 4:21,22
 
Ezequiel 11:23. João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada
E a glória do Senhor se alçou desde o meio da cidade, e se pôs sobre o monte que está ao oriente da cidade.
Maranata!
 
The Lighthouse My favorite human structure whose purpose is to alert and save human lives from iminent danger. It appears in the photo as the header on my blog.
 
Be careful when the light goes off during dark nights. But the divine Light never goes out and always shines through the darkest nights. Let us not think that we can change this essential warning system protecting us against the perils of the raging seas into a club whose purpose is to entertain and deceive people into thinking that they are safe when in reality it´s not the structure that is important but the Light therein.
 
…20As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed. 21And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed. 22“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”… 1 Samuel 4:21,22
 
God's Glory Exits the Temple
18Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim. 19As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them. Ezekiel 10:18-19.
 
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 11:22-25 Here is the departure of God's presence from the city and temple. It was from the Mount of Olives that the vision went up, typifying the ascension of Christ to heaven from that very mountain. Though the Lord will not forsake his people, yet he may be driven away from any part of his visible church by their sins, and woe will be upon them when He withdraws his presence, glory, and protection.


Saturday, June 10, 2023

Great Truths

 

"Great truths are dearly bought, the common truths,
Such as men give and take from day to day,
Come in the common walk of easy life,
Blown by the careless wind across our way.
 
Great truths are greatly won, not found by chance,
Nor wafted on the breath of summer dream;
But grasped in the great struggle of the soul,
Hard buffeted with adverse wind and steam.
 
But in the day of conflict, fear and grief,
When the strong hand of God, put forth in might,
Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart,
And brings the imprisoned truth-seed to the light.
 
Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours
Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain,
Truth springs like harvest from the well-plowed field,
And the soul feels it has not wept in vain."
 
from Streams in the Desert

Politically Incorrect Love Poem

Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon


A Breakfast Poem Baked with Love in the Sun

I am hereby registering my lament 
At the high court of discontent. 
If you can´t read The  Book 
Without giving me that "Woke" look
You won´t see
What you get,
When you get
What we see.
 
In this world of Yin and Yang
We are forced to choose
To have our life hang
With the one or the other,
As in father or mother.
Or friends and foes 
Just to add to our woes
To win or lose
As in topsy-turvy and willy-nilly.
 
I am not talking about race
No, at least not the one you think
The kind that´s in your face
As antiquated antics
From the bully pulpit
From pie in the sky 
To pie in your face
 
Dems are touchy-feely no more
Reps are namby-pamby encore.
As for me, I am free,
Being right that I left,
Not being in the fold
Not fitting in the mold.
Not being one of the foxes
Feeling small in their boxes

Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Me, I declare my passion,
And choose the middle motion.

Having my country left,
Being right in the middle,
Where I want to  be  found
In the middle of your arms,           
Sipping coconut water,
Being enthralled
By the power of your charms.

Since we make such a great team
To add to my
irreverence
I'll blow off some steam
And have a little blast
Playing the part of the iconoclast.

Some people declare seriously:
"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than to have not loved at all".
My slogan forever will be

engraved in bold
in honor of you and me,
"Tis better to be held than to behold".

Jean-Louis.

Friday, June 9, 2023

JESUS WOULDN'T SAY NO!

Saudade - I miss you - Jean-Louis Mondon

Original em Inglês composto e publicado em 2007 por Jean-Louis
 
Sinto falta de você
Como o poeta da musa dele
Como o croissant
Do café com leite
Numa manha de deleite
Como o tutti do frutti,
Ai, não! Isso seria o cúmulo!

Sinto falta de você
Como uma floresta sem árvore
Ou um palácio sem mármore
Lábios sem beijos
E como, infelizmente
Meus braços cansados
De não abraçar-te.

Sinto falta de você
Como um trem sem estação,
Como um adeus, sem razão,
Sem lenço, nem lágrimas
Para molha-lo.
Como uma nostalgia
Sem objeto, nem sujeito.

Sinto saudade de você
Como um zéfiro tranquilo
Num redemoinho rugindo.
Como uma surdina
Na trombeta
Anunciando a calma.

Sinto saudade de você
Como uma tempestade de neve
Sem flocos de aveia
Na mesa decorada
Pelo café da manhã
 
Com um vaso de amor-perfeitos
Ocupados a bater papo
                                                          Com monólogos vazios
                                     Sem eco para partilhar
                                     Os sonhos vindouros.

Sinto saudade de você
Sem medo de ambivalência
Sem temor da emoção
Nem necessidade de aprender
Cada um a se compreender
Sem como, nem porquê.

Sinto saudade de você
Ao amanhecer do caminho
Do regresso vencedor
Que marca o destino
De todo grande amor.

Jean-Louis.

Friday, April 7, 2023

Christian Leaders Who Promote “Mark Of Beast” (R$E)

Things Are Not As They Appear! | Midweek Update with Tom Hughes

Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?

 

 
Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating so; if this touches you, you may want to forward it.
Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never noticed this....
 
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed separate from the grave clothes. Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!' Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see.. The other disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
 
Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it really significant? Yes!
 
In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition.
When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it...
 
The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished. Now, if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.
 
The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, 'I'm done.'
But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because........... The folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming back!'
He is Coming Back!
 
So; if this touches you, you may want to forward it. And praise the name of Jesus!

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Language Adaptation as one the defense mechanism for the Immigrant

 Language Adaptation as the Best Defense for the Immigrant

One of the primary survival skill to ensure success in your immigration long lasting process after becoming a resident.

 Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon

Chameleon (Hebrew Koach "ko'-akh"): adapts to any climate, any situation or circumstance and creates the resources necessary - an atmosphere conducive - to it's own success.

After having spent an incubation period of six years in a chameleon egg, my eye sight afflicted by its innate stereoscopy woke up to its environment. I had gone through a metamorphosis that went beyond my sense of Cartesian analysis. The mirror only reflected kaleidoscopic dimmed lights whose alternation never ceased to engulf me in a deep and disquieting instability.

The more I looked at myself in my new habitat, the more my perception of public approval of my appearance of a weird animal in the cultural show window did not stop me from being aware of a certain internal protection against an imperceptible, but yet strongly felt erosion. This provoked in my being, a profound malaise similar to what happens to a sailor on a drifting boat, I had let go of my moorings, my roots had no more soil in to hold on to.

On the other hand, with the passing years, I have learned to accept this new nature of the chameleon. After all, it comes as no surprise if man´s normal instinctive protection system follows the latest trends when the political, intellectual, social or artistic winds are in vogue, or if he must today clothe himself in blue, red or as the order of the day dictates in a green or with a bizarre costume. Adaptation, including a new language learning acquisition, if only a change of accent is a must if the immigrant´s career or being an integral part of society depends on his willingness to integrate and assimilate to his new environment.

Can we accuse the chameleon of being a weather vane? Of course not, the weather vane is blown by and follow the direction of the wind whereas the chameleon confronts the changing winds and his alarm system allows him to detect incoming danger and to trigger his inoffensive yet effective security device except when he is hungry.

Or could we chide or blame the long lasting French statesman Marquis de Talleyrand of having survived several successive governments or rulers without losing his head. Perhaps was it his reptilian composure (in French: cold blood) that allowed him to keep it attached to his shoulders?

This is simply one of the adaptation mechanisms I had to develop along my life experience, without resorting to human psychology therapy, without artificial prescription or other drugs creating a false peace, illusory and ephemeral security and contentment.

Note from the author: Born in Algeria from 3 generations French parents, life carried me through 3 immigration processes that demanded my acquiring survival skills. Learning a new language is a passport or a visa to a new way of life and demands efforts, courage, resilience and perseverance in the face of numerous challenges.

I have already survived 3 immigration successful processes and I am about to embark on another exciting journey on my 4th. Adventure. Going back home to Europe. Wish me well. 

Jean-Louis 



Saturday, March 18, 2023

Uma Doce Alvorada de Primavera

Composto e postado por Jean-Louis Mondon

Junho 2018  

 

Com o amanhecer, 

No arbusto de borboletas

Senti um tremor de asas

Fechar o silêncio noturno

Rompendo com beleza

A manhã de primavera


Teria o Canto Alegre voltado

Trazendo a esperança prometida

Desde a neve do inverno

Quando a vento gelado soprava

Na ausência da cotovia?


Seria isso um sonho

Esse suave cantar

O som sutil no Limoeiro

Num crescendo para despertar a alvorada

Em comunhão com o ritmo do meu coração

Respondendo com uma gota salgada?


Sim, cansado da longa viagem

O pequeno mensageiro alado

Portador de boas novas,

Havia chegado ao seu ninho

Para sua amada celebrar


Não se inquiete, meu amigo

Sua amada volta em breve

Em maio próximo ou ao final de Junho

Quem sabe talvez ainda na lua cheia

Todas as árvores na aleia

Se inclinarão diante sua beleza

E as flores dos campos

Oferecerão seu doce perfume


Minha amada, deixe seus olhos

Sussurrar palavras que eu nunca ouvi

Doces promessas de mais amor por vir

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Dave Hunt´s message, the Bible and the world.

Nowhere does the Bible tell us to reform this world. Those who seemed to be in a position to do so (Joseph as second only to Pharoah, Esther and Mordacai under Emperor Ahasuerus, and Daniel under several kings) were used of God to preserve His chosen people, but never to reform godless societies. Christ never attempted to reform the evil world of His day, nor did the Apostles or early church engage in marches or demonstrations either for Jesus or against evil. They "turned the world upside down" (Acts 17:6) by preaching the gospel, not by preaching "traditional morals" or protesting the world's evil practices.

Collegiate Day of Prayer 2023 – LIVE from Asbury University — Feb 23rd @...

 

Look at the following caption´s announcement date:

Let's ADOPT and saturate EVERY CAMPUS in America in prayer (go to http://collegiatedayofprayer.org to adopt a campus) and join us LIVE from Asbury University on Feb 23rd at 8-10pm ET with special guests Rick Warren, Francis Chan, Allen Hood and worship leaders from International House of Prayer, Circuit Riders + Black Voices Movement, and Met By Love Worship. Let’s believe God for REVIVAL amongst believers on college campuses and SPIRITUAL AWAKENING amongst the lost. Father, revive the saved and save the lost!!

 

10 things with the pre-tribulation rapture from the world perspective. Pete Garcia.

 https://www.rev310.net/post/10-things-wrong-w--the-pre-tribulation-rapture-from-the-world-s-perspective

Saturday, January 7, 2023

The Christian religion is distinct from other religions

While there are some similarities, the distinctions between the gods of major world religions are far greater than those between individual men and women. The adherents of competing religions take very seriously the identifying attributes of their deities. Thus, it is not generosity but a cynical trivialization of that which is vital and sacred to suggest that the gods of all religions are the same. It is an affront to Muslims to insist that Allah is the equivalent of the many gods in Hinduism; or to tell a Christian that his God, who gave His Son to die for the sins of the world, is the same as Allah, of whom it is specifically stated that he has no son.
 
To say that all religions are the same denies the meaning of language and is an insult not only to the followers of these religions but to intelligence itself. The difference is particularly glaring when it comes to Christianity. It stands alone on one side of a theological chasm, with all other religions on the other side—a chasm that renders any ecumenical union impossible without destroying Christianity itself.
 
One cannot deny, for example, the irreconcilable conflict between the belief that Christ died for our sins and rose again(which is the very heart of Christianity) and Islam’s blasphemous claim that Christ did not die on the cross, much less for sin, but that someone else died in His place. To sweep such differences under an ecumenical rug (as Roman Catholicism, and specifically Vatican II, seeks to do) is not kindness but madness.
 
Nor is it possible to reconcile the claim of all non-Christian religions that sin is countered by good works with the Bible’s oft-repeated declaration that only Christ, because He was sinless, could pay the penalty for sin, and that to do so He had to die in our place. Of course Christ’s claim, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to the Father except by me” (John 14:6), is the strongest possible rejection of all other religions as Satanic counterfeits.
 
The...Second Coming of Christ,is a belief which is unique to Christianity and separates it from all of the world’s religions by a chasm that cannot be bridged by any ecumenical sleight-of-hand. Muhammad never promised to return, nor did Buddha, nor did the founder of any other of the world’s religions. Only Christ dared to make this promise, and only He made it credible by leaving behind an empty tomb. That undeniable fact is reason enough to take seriously His assertion that He would return to this earth in power and glory to execute judgment upon His enemies.