Let us all move forward...
Many of you have some very good questions. There are answers for each question, no one disputes that. The question each of us must answer for ourselves is which answer do we live with. I have made it quite clear which answer I believe to be true.
There was a time when I had very similar questions, and made some of the same arguments many of you have put forth. I lived my life with out any real sense of purpose, other then my job, the woman I was married to, and the son I was raising.
When Jesus Christ revealed to me personally that He did in fact die for my sins, I was crushed, and I repented from my sin. From that day forward I have continued to grow in the knowledge and grace of Jesus Christ, and I now look forward to His return. Some may call this faith, which it is, but for me it was a little more then just that, as I saw Him in my mind being crucified in my place, for my sin, and when He looked at me, I knew He loved me. When this life comes to an end, as it will for each and everyone of us, I will see Him, and I will spend the rest of eternity with Him in Paradise.
My faith is strong, and my hope is real. I know whom I believe in, and I am known by Him. He has been a real source of comfort, and He has never let me down, no one can refute this. My new life with Him has way more joy then my old life of sin.
This life is available to anyone who is willing to turn from their sin, and with a sincere heart, ask Jesus to come into their life and forgive them of their past failures, and be their Lord for ever. He will not refuse this request when it is made in earnest.
John 3:16-17:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 14:1-6:
Jesus said: "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know."
Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?"
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 15:12-17:
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another.
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