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Rejecting Christian Celebrity Worship and Acknowledging the God within You
Their evil deeds will be overlooked, forgiven by God. The one group will be rewarded according to the good that they’ve done. Eventually, however, one of the gods dies and is reborn as human, with the power to remember his previous life. Biochemists and mathematicians have calculated the odds against life arising from non-life naturally via unintelligent processes. By contrast, less than half of respondents in 11 of the economically advanced countries surveyed consider God to be important in life. After World War II, decolonization efforts began in a number of areas, with many European countries pulling out of their colonies around the world. Then, we, in turn, are rewarded for our efforts. Tabi’een. After them, we realized that Iman is saying and doing, and intention is one of the three, those are not sufficient alone without the others. It also entails a separation, but it’s the separation of one group of people from another: the righteous and the forgiven on one hand and the wicked and the unrepentant on the other.
The other group will be judged according to the evil that they have done, and their good deeds will not keep them from their punishment. The two groups will be judged separately. The practice of wearing Jujus around the waist is a common feature among ethnic groups. On the other hand, people have been penalized for not wearing their veils. The question would be impossible to answer from an evidentiary standpoint simply because anything which God might have done (that is, any supernatural act which might serve as evidence for His existence) would have to be explained away in terms of natural causes, not because we know what those natural causes could possibly be, but simply because a supernatural God is not allowed to exist! My answer would be “No, He doesn’t,” regardless of whether God truly exists or not. So first of all, before you even ask the question, decide whether or not you’re really willing to accept the answer. Once you’re ready to ask the question, “does God exist?” here are a few observations to consider as you begin your search for an objective answer: – Discoveries in astronomy have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the universe did, in fact, have a beginning.
Before we ask the question “Does God exist?” we first have to deal with our philosophical predispositions. Asking the question “does God exist?” would be pointless. God has made a provision for those who want to repent, a provision to atone for the sins of those who want to be made right with Him. Who is God? He’s been described as everything from an impersonal life-force to a benevolent, personal, almighty Creator. Who is God? What has He revealed about Himself? Who Is God – Father God or Mother Nature? He’s seen by some as “Mother Nature” and by others as “Father God.” But who is He really? His prophets acknowledged Him as Father by saying, “You are our Father, we are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand,”3 and “do we not all have one Father? Has not one God created us?”4 Never once does God refer to Himself as “Mother” and never once is He called such by the prophets to whom He spoke. By “death” God is not referring to the physical death which we might have in mind.
He sent a “Messiah,” a Servant who willingly suffered and died a vicarious death in order to pay for the sins of those who would repent and trust in Him. Ancient societies had to conform to an existing social order if they were to survive at all. Dr. Richard Lewontin, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, put it like this: “It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door” (Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. Philosophers agree that a transcendent Law Giver is the only plausible explanation for an objective moral standard. Rather, it would be the first step in an objective and meaningful search for ultimate truth. Even in the first century, the women’s choice to remain chaste was seen as radical, though these early religious women did command respect for their choice among fellow Christians.