Do You Know Why I Believe In Jesus Mp3 Download _BEST_
Le Eisenbeisz
I believe in the Elect, I can't deny it. So that raises this worrisome question I've been dwelling on; how can I know, then, that Christ died for me? This question is driving me to the point of nausea-ridden anxiety. 3 years ago, the Lord revealed to me that Christ paid it all for me and all that's needed is trust in His finished work. It was a beautiful revelation that brought me to my knees.
Then, I fell into sin for quiet some time. However, now, I know the Lord wants me back and I've come back and want nothing but to please Him and glorify His name. But yet, I feel like I can't trust like I used to because I feel like I can't know wether my sins have been paid for. If Christ didn't die for me, I have nothing to trust in, then. How can I know He did? Please, I going mad.
The darkness is sometimes in our hearts. We face difficult situations in our lives and find it so hard to find light. God says we are now walking in the light. We do this by moving close to God in prayer and seeking Him (Psalm 27). We do not have to walk around stumbling in the darkness. Are you walking in light today? Have confidence that you believe in Jesus!
Not only believing Jesus was real, but believing the truth about Jesus. Jesus was the Christ. He was God in flesh, Emmanuel. We cannot just believe Jesus lived. We must believe the entire truth about him. We do not live at a time when we can have proof of Jesus. We did not touch him or see him with our own eyes. But we can read the truth from those who did. Our faith is required to truly believe in Jesus.
Virtually all scholars believe, for various reasons, that Jesus was crucified in the spring of either AD 30 or AD 33, with the majority opting for the former. (The evidence from astronomy narrows the possibilities to AD 27, 30, 33, or 34). However, we want to set forth our case for the date of Friday, April 3, AD 33 as the exact day that Christ died for our sins.
According to Islam, if you believe Jesus as the Son of God you go to hell, and according to Christianity if you believe that Jesus is not the Son of God you go to hell. Now living in the 21st century in Australia, how are we supposed to know what exactly happened in the Middle East 2000 years ago? Of course we cannot know, we can only believe. Lately this has been really stuck on my mind. I still believe in God but I feel very lost and insecure.
People and religions say you should love God, but I do not understand how I could love someone who would put me into hell for eternity based on what I believe about Jesus, even though God knows my situation and knows that I could never be sure about which belief is true. I do not want to lose my faith and I do not want to not have a chance of going to heaven either and so we must do what we can to try to find answers.
In one of your responses you said that no matter how much you have sinned, if you repent and believe Jesus is your savior you will still go to heaven. So on judgment day if I was to see very bad people who have repented and been saved, and if I was a very good person who always believed in God and never did bad things, only small mistakes that we all do and I go to hell being a much better person, then where is the just, merciful, understanding and loving God that I used to know and believe in? It looks as if Christianity shows an easy way out for Christians and makes it impossible for everybody else. I don't like the thought of this as it does not sound fair and at the same time it sounds scary since I am a Muslim.
When there are so many murderers, rapists, people who do not believe in God at all, so many people who do not deserve to go to heaven, why is it that somebody who believes in God should burn for eternity just because they didn't correctly guess the right religion? People are going to be eternally punished for being unlucky.
Nothing feels as bad as living blindly, knowing you might go to hell no matter how good you are as a person all because of something that is not in your hands as you can never know for sure what is right. I cannot accept something like this but cannot do anything about it. God is supposed to be fair but I do not see any fairness in this. If God understands our situation then why doesn't God forgive us for the incorrect belief of Jesus a lot of us have? (I am not saying which is right and wrong)
Thank you for reading, I really hope to get a reply from you and I really do not know what sort of reply to expect for something like what I wrote. There are so many little questions in my writing and you probably will not have the time to answer it all in detail and I do not know how helpful any reply would be keeping in mind that even the good go to hell but I would really like a reply not only for me but for all the people who visit www.comereason.org that have similar thoughts to what I have since I believe that what I wrote about is the most important and the most scariest thing of all.
First of all, I'd like to point out that the premise as it is stated above iswrong. God does not send people to hell because they don't believe inChristianity. Let me emphasize that again because it is a major point ofconfusion to many people. No one has been sent to hell because they don'tbelieve in Jesus. Hell is a place of punishment and people are punished becausethey've done wrong. In other words, the only reason people go to hell is becausethey've broken God's law. It is not as you stated, "somebody who believesin God should burn for eternity just because they didn't correctly guess theright religion?"
However, as I pointed out above, God does provide a way for us to escape thatpunishment. God must punish sin but allows Jesus to be our substitute, takingthat punishment in our stead. But we are required to accept that substitution inorder for it to be effective. It is like the person who has a fatal diseasebeing offered a new vaccine that holds their cure. The patient must givepermission for the doctors to administer the vaccine before it can save him fromdeath and pain. If the patient refuses the vaccine - if he doesn't believe itwill save him - he will die. Again, that is not luck, but a choice made by thepatient.
You wrote that "Nothing feels as bad as living blindly, knowing youmight go to hell no matter how good you are as a person all because of somethingthat is not in your hands as you can never know for sure what is right."But, again, I don't think you're framing the point appropriately. What youbelieve is directly under your control. You are not beholden to any beliefsimply because you were born into a specific culture or faith tradition.Further, you are not obligated to "live blindly". God has given you atleast two tools; your ability to reason and your ability to research.
You wrote, "Instead of listing more contradictions in the Qur'an andtrying to persuade me that your religion is correct, if you could just thinkwhat if YOU were born into a Muslim family and it was ME who was born into aChristian family, then who would be correct?" It strikes me that you seematters of faith as wholly dependent on your cultural surroundings. The ideathat Islam is true for you because you come from an Islamic culture whileChristianity is true for me because I come from a Christian culture is whereyour error lies. Truth is always true, no matter if a specific culturerecognizes it or not. Let me give you another example. Throughout mostcivilizations, health practitioners believed that illnesses were caused by animbalance of what they termed "humors" in the body. They wouldtherefore bleed patients to try and restore the balance and cure the ailment.(1)
The fact that many cultures believed in this technique in no way made it truethat bloodletting was the cure for diseases. In fact, it most of the timefurther weakened the patient. The truth is ruthless - it never changes simplybecause one's culture doesn't hold to it. We can look similarly at the claims ofChristianity and Islam and we recognize that both cannot be true. They stand inmarked contrast to one another. It may be the case that neither is true, but itcannot be the case that both are true.
It is either true that we're sinners before a righteous God or it isn't. BothIslam and Christianity hold to this point. It is either true that God wouldallow us a way of escape or He wouldn't. This is where Islam and Christianitydiverge. Christianity holds that not only is there a way of escape, you can knowthat you have escaped God's judgment. And if God allows a way of escape, then itwould make sense that he would make it knowable.
You wrote near the beginning of your letter, "Now living in 21st centuryin Australia, how are we supposed to know what exactly happened in the MiddleEast 2000 years ago?" Again, this question seems to assume that we cannotknow what happened, that we must just believe. However, as people who can thinkand who can investigate, I believe we can come to some conclusions about thisquestion in an intelligent fashion.
I pray we can at least agree that the truth is the truth, regardless of whoholds it and that at least some truths can be investigated and known. If youagree to that, then the idea of a just God punishing sinners isn't such astretch. And if God is God, and God is merciful as well as just, the He wouldprovide a way to escape that judgment. Christianity gives a satisfying responseto how all those things can be true at the same time.
Some Christians are not sure that they believe because they do not know what the Bible teaches about salvation. Therefore, we will review some basics. First, the Jews understood that Jesus claimed to be God even though they did agree that He was. This truth is captured in the following statement,
Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. (NASB) John 20:30-31
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