Over twenty years ago, as an unhappy man who believed in Jesus Christ and thought he was a Christian on account of it, “I, [Bill Logan], looked up to heaven [and saw God and his children in the message about his firstborn son, Jesus Christ], and my mind came [...] to me. I thanked the Most High, and I praised and honored the one who lives forever, because his power lasts forever and his kingdom lasts from one generation to the next. Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to him. He does whatever he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can oppose him or ask him, “What are you doing?” Just then my mind came [...] to me” and I saw the truth that all of the children fathered by God are the Holy Spirit in human form, like Jesus, and that I belong to God’s family of spirits – that I am one of those chosen by God to know themselves and one another as spirits like their Father, and not as humans. The healing began… and continues to this day. “Now I, [Bill Logan], will praise, honor, and give glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is true, his ways are right, and he can humiliate those who act arrogantly.” (quotations from Daniel 4.34-37, GodsWord)
Easter: the Mockery of Christ’s Resurrection
Either Jesus Christ
- is alive and functioning on earth as he did while in human form,
- he has changed (which is the same as to say that he is not alive as the person he was),
- or he is dead (or never existed).
Jesus Christ was crucified by those who differed with his point of view. Even if they believed in the resurrection of the dead, those who crucified him certainly did not celebrate his resurrection. Jesus Christ himself called them children of the father of lies, liars, hypocrites, self-righteous, and a number of other things which offended them.
Those who pose as his followers and celebrate the Lord’s resurrection though they do not share his point of view, or who do not share the same point of view as other of his followers, make a mockery of him. They celebrate his life though they are exactly like those who crucified him.
If those who crucified Jesus Christ were liars and hypocrites, then what are those who celebrate the life of one of whom they do not approve?
Does the Bible Matter In the 21st Century? – FoxNews.com
Does the Bible Matter In the 21st Century? – FoxNews.com.
My answer is “yes”. However, not for the reasons mentioned by the author, who expresses views held by many who do not share God’s point of view.
In the article the author, Vishal Mangalwadi, maintains that the Bible is “the secret of America’s freedom,” and that without it America will be like “the first Protestant nation – Nazi Germany.” He also says that “every culture that rejects the kingdom of God condemns itself to be ruled exclusively by sinful men.”
While these statements come very close to the truth (as many lies do), they reveal the lies on account of which all but the children of God are condemned.
The Bible always matters. But only because God uses it to restrain evil, and not because to the best of their ability men govern themselves according to its teaching. And “every culture that rejects the kingdom of God” is the world which is ruled by God through Satan, not those cultures which do not have what is often referred to as America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. “Sinful men” rule nothing. Nor do they condemn or save themselves from condemnation.
Though the Bible is no one’s savior, believers thank God for the Bible. Without it the earth would be uninhabitable. It would not be the place where God identifies and trains his children.
