Kellogg's Korner

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Well, it’s Good Friday. I am not really sure how calendar creators over the years decide when Christians celebrate Jesus’s Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascention, but I love this time of year.
For atheists and others who deny Christ’s existence, I honestly feel sorry for them. Why? They are missing out on a life they shouldv’e had, not the one they made for themselves.
Sometimes, I don’t understand how atheists are who they are. Do they not realize there is proof in God’s existence? What I do know is that even if you took the Bible out of play, world history records that a man named Jesus was crucified for his teachings. Were those teachings so bad that people feel they were of a looney? Gee, He only taught about love, tolerance, forgiveness. He got on a cross to prove that and more. I guess to atheists, faith in something they can’t see if just to hard for them, so they choose not to believe.
It is just too difficult for them to believe in something so beautiful and pure, full of love and kindness.
People read the Bible and gather that God is not kind. They apparently forget men not God wrote the Bible. Yes, God inspired it, but His pure thoughts might not have been written that way thanks to the ways of the imperfect man. It has been twisted to serve many an evil purpose-Hitler used it to kill six million Jews, slave-owners used it to say blacks were less than whites. It is all in how you read it.
Churches can twist the Bible as well. Remember that the Bible in the hands of men can be twisted because man is twisted. The Bible is filled with the words that Christ wanted men to hear if they would pay attention to it. Everybody seems to dwell on the “eye for and eye” quote and death to those who will lie down with beasts or the same sex. They forget about the verse DO NOT JUDGE, LEST YOU BE JUDGED! Christ’s words in the Bible are of love, respect and forgiveness. They are also of a warning- HE IS COMING BACK FOR HIS FOLLOWERS! Won’t atheists be shocked? Or will they?
People think that if there is a God, why doesn’t He stop the bad-well you have to understand in God first-I do wonder where atheists think the good and evil in a person comes from though.
I KNOW there is God and Christ and Holy Spirit. I have seen his miracles in my life and it is not magic. I don’t give money to any church and God still loves me. I don’t have to pay penance and I won’t stay in purgatory-Jesus paid the price for me.
I have had many bad things in my life. Some that made me want to forget about God and the whole afterlife deal, but that is what my faith is about-holding on to it no matter how hard things get-I won’t curse God and die. I realize that it is hard to change and become something new. I have found that the rewards are far greater than all of the pains I have suffered. God has always carried me through the rough patches, like a soldier picking up the injured and carrying them to safety. I always come out on the other side.
I am sad we were and are so sorry as human beings that Christ had to do what He had to do, but I am thankful He saved me from Hell. Thank You God for what you sent to save us all, and I will pray for those who just don’t think you sent anything at all.

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