In Search of God

2007-06-28T22:02:00.000-04:00

In search for me, I discovered truth.
In search for truth, I discovered love.
In search for love, I discovered God,
and in God, I have everything!

No Salvation in Opinion

2007-06-26T16:05:00.000-04:00

There is no salvation in correct opinions, neither is there damnation in wrong opinions. Suppose your theories right, suppose they contain all that is to be believed. Those theories are not what makes you a Christian, if a Christian you indeed are. On the contrary, in many cases they are just what keeps you from being a Christian. For when you say that, to be saved, one must hold to this or that notion, you are putting your trust in some idea about God, rather than in the living God and His will.
It is one thing to believe in a god: it is quite another to believe in God! One of four gates stands open to us: to deny the existence of God; to acknowledge His existence but say He is not good; to say, "I wish there was a God," and be miserable because there is none; or to say, "There is a God, and He must be perfect in goodness or He could not be," and thus give ourselves to Him heart and soul. - George MacDonald

Theories - Substitutes for Faith

2005-11-19T19:58:00.000-05:00

The duty of Christians toward their fellow men and women is to let their light shine, not to force on them their interpretations of God's designs.

If those who set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, the one object for which the gospel was preached, how different would the world now be! Had they given themselves to understanding his Word that they might do it, and not to the quarrying from it material wherewith to buttress their systems of dogma, in many a heart by this time would the name of the Lord be loved where now it remains unknown.

Unhindered by Christians' explanations of Christianity, undeterred by having their acceptance forced on them, but attracted instead by their behavior, men would be saying to each other, as Moses said to himself when he saw the bush that burned but was not consumed, "I will now turn aside and see this great sight!" All over the world, people would be drawing near to behold how these Christians loved one another, and how just and fair they were to everyone that came into contact with them! They would note that the goods Christians had to sell were the best, their weights and measures most dependable, their prices most reasonable, their word most certain, their smiles most genuine, their love most selfless! They would see that in their families there was neither jealousy nor emulation, that Mammon was not worshipped, that in their homes selfishness was neither the hidden nor the openly ruling principle, that their children were as diligently taught to share as some are to save or spend only upon themselves, that their mothers were more anxious lest a child should hoard than if he should squander, that in no Christian house was religion one thing and the daily practice of life another; that the preacher did not think first of his church not the nobleman of his privileges. They would see, in short, a people who lived by their principles of belief, not merely talked and disputed about them.

I can hear some object: "But the world could not function that way! We must take the words of the Bible too literally. We must, after all, live in the world of men."

Such an objection is but another proof of unbelief. Either you do or you do not believe the word the Lord spoke - that, if we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all things needful will be added to us. - George MacDonald

The Great Outdoors of the Creator

In Search of God

No Salvation in Opinion

Theories - Substitutes for Faith