Are
genetic defects -
price of
evolution?
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of Daniel
"Revelation" of John
The
signs of times
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If Jesus wanted people to follow
him and to believe that he was the God, why then did he
choose Israel? Why did he in clothes of a carpenter from
Nazareth come into the tiny
country, where the population was of rare monolithic in their belief in the unique and indivisible God? Why didn’t he
go to Egypt or, even better , to Greece, where people believed in a great
number of gods and admitted their
different embodiments?
The man living the life of Jesus, speaking His words and dying by His death, can not be a deceiver.
The
second version:
a madman.
Imagine,
that a man, who lives with the limits of the culture that is fiercely
monotheistic, suddenly declares, that he is God, and more over ¸ says
to all surrounded that their
destiny in eternity depends on whether they will believe in him as God or not. It is
not a simple imagination, but a delirium of a lunatic in the fullest sense. Was Jesus such a
person?
A
man who announced himself as God in antiquity, in our times can be compared to a
madman, who thinks, that he is Napoleon. He is certainly mistaken, but he
honesty believes in his delusion. Most likely he will be sent to a psychiatric
hospital to prevent him from bringing harm to himself or to anybody else. But
Jesus doesn’t have any deviations from the norm and unbalance always
accompanied by insanity. If we assume that He was insane, then how can we explain His behavior,
always full of calmness and
dignity?
The
psychiatrist J. Т.Fisher
marks: "If you were to take the sum total of all authorative articles ever
written by the most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental
hygiene - if you were combine them and refine them and cleave out the excess
verbiage - if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley,
and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific
knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you
would have an awkward and incomplete summation
of the Sermon on the Mount. And it would suffer immeasurably through comparison.
For nearly two thousand years the Christian world has been holding
in its hands the complete answer to its [humankind's] restless and fruitless
yearnings. Here...rests the blueprint for successful human life with optimism, mental health
and contentment».
No, not
a madman.
And if
Jesus was not neither deceiver, nor a madman, the only one thing is left:
Jesus is God, and Son of God.
Once
Christ was asked: « What is the greatest commandment in the Law?». Do you
remember what He answered? «Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind »
(Mat.22:37). It seems to me that the problem of many believers consists in
following: their belief lives only in their
hearts, but the facts about Christ don’t reach their mind.
We
were given the mind updated by Holy Spirit in order to know the Lord; the heart –
in order to love Him; and the will – in order to chose Him. To glorify the Lord,
to know Him as deep as it possible, we should live simultaneously in all
three measurements.