Questions, Theories & The Creator

 I watched a video and posted a comment. I want to leave them both here for others to think about.

This is the video:

And this is the comment I made there:

"Just making a comment here so don't come for me; I've heard all the insults already. Here goes:

As a Christian, I have always wondered why it's not obvious to some that there is a Creator. And my answer to the obvious question friends ask me is that the Creator isn't created. We would have no concept of creation without that Creator (who created "creation", and so on and on). Man can explain away everything else with science and theories (speaking on evolution, truth, meaning, death, etc) but cannot explain what time is or where it came from. It's a necessary concept that we cannot explain or invent or imagine outside of its existence.  It's the same with gravity and other things: man can theorize about what but not explain why or, in some cases, how. I'm constantly told that I believe in something (God) that I cannot explain and that no one alive witnessed but I say the same about the Big Bang.  Faith is faith, whether it be in God or in the Big Bang. I happen to believe in both."

By the way, the title of the video "3 Important Questions No One Knows the Answers To" made me think of the song "I Know the Master of the Wind". 

Peace

--Free 

Get Through the Moment

For anyone dealing with something and needs encourage (as I often do), I want to share this verse from the Bible.

We've all had those times in our lives when we feel beat up, beat down, and lost. Those moments pass. And this life we are in is just a moment. We have an eternal morning to look forward to. So please, just hold on.

Peace

--Free

Rest In Peace?

 When I was reading Flipboard obituaries the other day (the older I get, the more I pay attention to death notices), one article about a famous person made one of those statements that always makes me pause. 

"He(or she) is now free of their pain". Or: "They are at peace now." Or: "They are with the angels now".

These all are touching and probably a comfort to those left in mourning. 

But...

As a Christian, I always wonder why we just assume that everyone who dies goes on to "rest in peace" or "dance with the angels" or that they are "out of their pain". What if they rejected the love of God? What if they denied His being? What if they just never even gave Him more than a passing thought?

Are those people resting in peace? I don't think so. I actually know that they are not because the Bible tells us so.

I recently lost someone I was once very close to. When I knew them, this person was ambivalent about God and, sometimes, even irritated by the thought of there being a God. When I heard that this person had died, I hoped that they had perhaps cried out to God for mercy. I pray that for everyone who disbelieves. I even hope that for the worse persons I can think of. After all, I could have died in my ignorance and complacency.

So, while I never say to anyone in mourning that their loved one is not "resting peacefully" or ballroom dancing with angels, I do have to almost gnaw off my tongue. What would be the point? The dead are past finding the salvation they ignored while living. What I try sometimes to do is remind the grief-stricken that this might be a chance to consider their own mortality.

In my shame, I have to admit that I don't always point this out when I have the chance. 

Pay attention to death, people. Our death will have more impact on us than any part of our life ever could. 

I wish I could say about every person I know that when they die, they are at peace. I wish I could say that we will all be in Heaven. But we can't wish for someone what they don't want for themselves.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:36

Notice that the verse mentions belief and obedience. So, those professing belief need to learn about obedience.

That's it for this post but in my next one, I want to talk about why I don't understand Atheism or Agnosticism. I've heard some of them claim that if God is so loving, He would not send people to Hell. I wonder if they ever realize that God doesn't send them to Hell but they go with their unbelief?

Peace

--Free