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For them, the whole story can be put in the formula. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/god_gives_us_the_power_to_conquer.htm One thing more must be stressed: God gives us the power to conquer evil. This does not mean that we can avoid evil and suffering. It does mean that God gives us the resources with which to meet evil and suffering head on -- and conquer them. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/only_real_answer.htm It is clear now that there is no simple, one-two-three answer to the parents of the children killed in the bus accident, the wife of the corporal, the rioting Indian families, or the victim of the concentration camp. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/a_question_you_can_t_avoid.htm Don't think that the question "What is man?" is academic or unimportant. It is a question you ask all the time, and can't help asking. Each of the following questions is no more than a specialized way of asking: "What is man? Who am I? What makes us all tick?" weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/some_current_answers.htm Some people claim that we are made for happiness. We are created to have a good time, the best possible time we can. People who believe this aren't necessarily selfish, since they can argue that the best way to have a good time is to help other people have a good time. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/first_part_of_biblical_answer.htm On the one hand, the Bible tells us that God has created us for fellowship with him. This idea is most clearly developed in the early portions of Genesis. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_is_the_image_of_god.htm What do we learn about ourselves from these stories? We learn, first of all, that we have been created "in the image of God." This is a difficult thing to understand, but we must shed as much light on it as we can. It does not mean that we are God. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/some_consequences.htm The notion that we are created in the image of God underlines both our greatness and our littleness. It underlines our greatness, since according to this view we occupy a unique place in God's creation. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_second_part_of_the_biblical_answer.htm Which brings us to the second thing the Bible says about us -- that although on the one hand we are created by God for fellowship with him, on the other hand we have rejected that fellowship. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_sin_is.htm How, then, does the Bible understand sin? Once again, the Genesis story, which is "our" story, gives us our best clue. Moving ahead to Gen., ch. 3, we find that man is tempted. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/supplying_some_documentation.htm Now this is not a particularly pleasant conclusion. We don't like the notion that there is something radically wrong with us. We would much prefer to believe that the difficulty can be cured with a little tinkering. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_sin_is_not.htm Sin is not simply ignorance. Against those who assert that we do the wrong because we don't know any better, and that once we know what is right we will do it, must be set the more profound assertion of Paul. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/getting_straightened_out.htm We must stop being proud and arrogant, and become humble. When we recognize this, we say to ourselves, "We will strive with all our might to be humble. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/how_can_i_be_changed.htm The Bible says that God has decided to help us. It says that where we are powerless to save ourselves, God saves us. It says that when we cannot set ourselves right, God sets us right. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_third_part_of_the_biblical_answer.htm Consequently, there is a third affirmation about man which the Bible stresses. If we are created for fellowship with God, and if we have rejected that fellowship, it is also true that God has provided a way for the fellowship to be restored. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_first_step.htm In John's teaching, Jesus' teaching, Paul's letters, Peter's sermons, we find again and again the word "repent." As we have seen previously, the word means to "turn about," "begin again," "make a fresh start." weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/after_the_first_step.htm the question to which these words offer an answer. We ask it in different ways. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_heart_of_the_matter.htm You are accepted. All you have to do is to accept the fact that you are accepted. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/not_once_and_for_all.htm Some people assume that this happens "just like that." (To get the effect, snap your fingers as you read "that.") For them the moment of clarification is sudden. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/some_hints_for_growing.htm . It is the experience of Christians that as you live with the Bible, God does "step forth" from time to time, and meet you in personal encounter. Perhaps that language is too spectacular at this stage of the game. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/a_final_warning.htm Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/why_isnt_individual_religion_enough.htm Many people will go part way with the Bible. They would deal with a multiple choice test in this fashion. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/case_against_church.htm Why are so many people hostile to the church? Let us list some of the common objections, before we look at the Biblical understanding of the church. Then, at the end of the chapter, we can see the objections in perspective. Here is a starter. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/when_did_the_church_get_started.htm Before we let the critics have the last word, let us turn to the Bible and find out something about this maligned institution. First of all, when did the Church get started? weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_is_covenant.htm The word "covenant" crept into the last paragraph. We must take a moment to understand this word, since it is very important. When the Bible talks of a covenant between two people, it means an "agreement" or a "binding." weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/new_covenant_becomes_possibility.htm The prophet Jeremiah speaks of the future possibility of a new covenant. This covenant will not be based on keeping a set of rules, like the Sinai covenant and its subsequent renewals. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/those_words_of_jesus_to_peter.htm What is Jesus' relationship to the new Christian community? Did he leave any provision for its development? To answer these questions we must look at one of the most controversial verses in the New Testament. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/those_upsetters_of_the_world.htm What was it like, this Church that the New Testament tells us about? Why were these obstreperous Christians able to make such a noise that not all the bellowings of Nero or his lions could drown them out? weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/a_rebuttal_of_the_case_against_the_church.htm People who "pan" the church need first to be told that their indictment is usually not severe enough! Those who love the church and live within it can offer a much stiffer condemnation than the outsider. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/why_the_church.htm Why the church? Why isn't "individual religion" enough? Here are four suggestions as you attempt to formulate your own answer. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/last_judgment_second_coming.htm A great temptation in reading the Bible is to skip over the parts that you don't understand -- or at least refuse to take them seriously. This is particularly the case with ideas like "Last Judgment," "Second Coming," and so on. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_inescapability_of_eschatology.htm Notice that you can't escape eschatology. If you reject Christian eschatology, you only substitute some other version of eschatology. The famous statement, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you die," is an eschatological statement. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/history_is_going_somewhere.htm The significance of Biblical eschatology can be seen by comparing it with its chief rival in the New Testament period. This was a belief that history did not move forward, but moved in a circle. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_dangers_of_literalism.htm The Old Testament looks to the future. The present is ambiguous: God chooses a people and that people forsakes him; power in God's world goes to nations who do not acknowledge him; the way of the wicked prospers. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/exploring_new_testament_eschatology.htm Let us look at the New Testament terms that describe the "end." Our job is to see the realities to which the eschatological terms point, rather than stopping with the terms themselves. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_kingdom_of_god.htm This Biblical notion is shot full of eschatological significance. The Kingdom of God is central to Jesus' ministry. He preaches about it, he tells parables about it, he performs "mighty works" which exhibit it. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/a_few_bits_of_help.htm "The Kingdom of God" does not clearly convey the meaning of the original Biblical words. The Biblical concept suggests not so much a geographical kingdom, with boundaries and so forth, as God's kingly rule, his Kingship, or his sovereignty. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_gift_of_god.htm The Kingdom is represented in the Bible as the work of God. It is not something we can earn or "build"; it is only something we can receive. The "coming" of the Kingdom is not our doing. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_i_do_today.htm Christians are helped by this eschatological perspective to see what things are really important and need doing. A splendid sense of discrimination is developed. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/what_happens_when_i_die.htm At one point, Job isn't realistic enough. He asks what he thinks is a hard question: "If a man die, shall he live again?" ( Job 14: 14). But the real question is, "When a man dies, shall he live again?" weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/where_god_is_not_present.htm The Old Testament writers felt at first that death brought total separation from God. Man cut himself off from God by his sin, and death completed the cutting-off process. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/community_of_the_resurrection.htm Jesus takes it for granted, in an almost offhand comment, "You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just" ( Luke 14: 14). weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/paul_s_attempt_to_describe_the_christian_fact.htm Paul's letters, the earliest Christian documents, record the same belief. In the very first of them to be preserved, he is at special pains to point out that those who have died are not cut off from participating in the coming victory of God. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/a_spiritual_body.htm The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ( I Cor. 15: 55-57). weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_facts_of_the_case.htm The Bible does not try to "prove" eternal life. It is not something that can be demonstrated so convincingly that it must be believed. Belief in eternal life is a consequence of belief in God. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/i_try_to_live_a_good_life.htm So far we have been examining some weighty problems and questions -- everything from the Trinity to tornadoes, from Eden to eschatology. But it is not enough just to look at problems and questions. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_micah_variation.htm Thus in the field of Biblical ethics, the important questions are not such abstract queries as, "What is the good?" or, "What is a reasonable way to live? weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_worship_action_variation.htm We can follow an individual through an experience of worship and see how it made him a man of action. The individual is Isaiah. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/the_therefore_variation.htm Now let us look at a New Testament variation of the theme. The thing that you can't escape as you read the New Testament is the fact that these Christians were concerned about one another primarily because they believed that God was concerned about all of them. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/bible/biblical_faith_god_is_creator.htm It is the Biblical faith that God is the Creator. 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