The Forest for the Trees

For over five years, the World Wide Christian Web has offered the internet community evidence and arguments for the existence of God and the reliability of the Bible. For over five years, we have fielded questions and met atheists and agnostics on their own turf. For over five years, the evidence for the existence of God has continued to mount and the evidence for the reliability of the Bible has grown stronger and stronger. Darwinism (Gradualism) has fallen by the wayside. Cosmology is in an uproar. All signs now point to a Creator for this universe and those signs further point specifically to the creator God of the Bible.(1,2)

In the over five years the World Wide Christian Web has been around, many atheists, agnostics and others who were not Christians have studied the evidence with an open mind and have concluded that the evidence supports the claims of the Bible. One can get lost in the science and philosophy of the evidence, so lost that one can forget the implications of the evidence in ones own life. After studying the evidence, it is only proper to ask yourself: What does it mean to me personally that God exists and that the Bible is accurate? What changes should I make, if any, in my day-to-day life because of these things?

If God exists and the Bible is accurate, we know the following: the creator of the universe is not only unimaginably powerful but us also unimaginably loving.(2) As shown on this web site, the creator cares enough to go to incredible measures for each one of us personally. In the Bible, the plight of mankind is explicit: the creator of the universe, God, created mankind with some of his own attributes, which was unique in all his creation. When mankind was created, he communed with God. The problem came when mankind rebelled against God and was separated from him. Since God is perfect, he requires perfect justice. Mankind's rebellion was an offense against God himself and perfect justice required that mankind pay for that offense. Any form of modern human justice system requires that offenses be paid for. If there was no payment, there would be no justice. Mankind's payment for rebellion was to be eternal separation from God.

Not only does God require perfect justice, he is perfectly loving. It is God's love that gave mankind a way out of the payment warranted for their offense. It is God's love that gives us a way out of the payment we warrant for our offenses. Since God's justice required that mankind's offense be paid for, God himself decided to make payment for those offenses. God came to earth and took on the offenses as if he himself committed them. All we have to do is accept God's payment in our place. Imagine a judge who, right after sentencing you for an offense you committed, turns himself over to the guard to pay for your offense. That judge is not only doing what justice requires by sentencing you but he is also showing unmerited love by offering to pay for your offense. The only catch - you must let the judge take your place and you must live your life, which was given back to you, for that judge. If that judge was also your Creator and loves you more than you can ever imagine, living your life for him would be better than living your life apart him. It would, some day, be a return to the communion once enjoyed by mankind, a return to a more "natural" state. It would give your life purpose, hope, love, comfort and direction.

Jesus came to earth 2,000 years ago. He was no ordinary man, he was God as well. He came to earth for one purpose: to pay for our offenses so we could live with God forever. He is also the judge. Will you let him take your place and live for him hereafter? If so, please click on this link to learn more.

Mark Harpt
Editor
e-mail: wwcw@wwcw.org

Notes

1. See the WWCW's article Argument for the Existence of God.

2. See the WWCW's article Who is the God that Exists?

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