July 9th 2023
As A Christian When You Die You Will Become Part Of The Majority Group In Heaven!
James 2:26 (NIV)
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
In the selected verse James wrote “as the body without the spirit is dead,” and here he was trying to show how our earthly body is dead when the spirit leaves it, and then, likening it to how faith without life giving action is also dead. However, today in this commentary it made me think of the spirit or soul of mankind is the life-giving factor that allows us to live forever either with or without acknowledging God as the giver of that life. I believe human life is created by God, and is only controlled by God, until God decides to end our life in this temporary cursed world!
No human being can control when God starts the process of inserting an immortal soul into the forming body of a soon to be human being. No one has “reproductive rights”, as only God can institute life, when the spirit of life or the soul is added to a forming embryo. Many, maybe most, people in the world today believe they should have the right to kill this forming human being, as they did not intend to become pregnant, they just wanted to have the pleasure of sexual activity! It seems the slogan should be we want “sexual freedom rights!” The only way to become pregnant accidentally is to participate in sexual intercourse, either consensually or by being raped!
Some years ago, if people had consensual sex and the woman became pregnant, they were expected to share in the care and raising of the offspring, as there was no legal means available to dispose of the child, since abortion was not legally available. It seems since killing your mistake became legal in 1973 in the USA many people desire to retain this as a right! It appears that more people today in the USA want to have the ability to abort their sexual blunders resulting in God starting the ”breath of life” in a human fetus. If this is not what they wanted, then they want to kill what God has started.
Jesus created the universe for a physical place for mankind to reside! This may be a rather controversial statement to many of the people living on this earth today! Many people believe there is no god or gods, and for sure no God! Such people believe that the universe created itself through a series of undirected random processes, which they currently call evolution. Many people believe in some form of a god or gods created the universe by some directed processes not totally random, and such people do not know or care how long this process took. Such people believe the process is not really that important, so they are open to many possibilities of creation, and they are referred to as theistic evolutionists. Some professing Christians believe that God used evolution as His means of creation, these people are referred to as old earth creationists.
I believe that the Bible gives us the true story of how and why God created this earth for mankind. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground—the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:4-7). Life is always started by an act of God!
From the beginning of time, God gave Adam and Eve instructions for reproducing and filling the earth He had created for them (us). God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Genesis 1:28). After the worldwide Flood gave Noah and his family the same instruction to re-fill the earth after this great flood. Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. (Genesis 9:1). Therefore, if you believe God, then there is no such thing as races of people, as we all have come from Noah’s family after the Flood.
As you can see our Bible tells us that sexual intercourse was created by God to allow us to fill the earth with our offspring, and God made it very enticing, so that we would follow His instructions to fill this earth, He had created for us. However, this enticement or lust causes people to lose their self-control to have sexual relations not wanting to fulfill God purpose of filling this earth, and then they desire to kill the resulting unwanted human child. God gave us ten commandments to guide us through this life. The first four related to how we are to honor God.
The next six commandments relate to how we are to honor other members of mankind! God first reminded us that Jesus Christ had created everything in just six days.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
"You shall not murder.
"You shall not commit adultery.
"You shall not steal.
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
(Exodus 20:11-17).
Note: If we observed these commands there would be no need for “abortion” as no one would ever become pregnant who did not desire to be with child!!
Although our nation is rapidly becoming anti-Christian in belief and practice, we Christians can still best serve our nation and our Savior by practicing and proclaiming Christ’s wonderful saving gospel of free salvation from sin and regeneration unto righteousness. (From: HMM of ICR)
When sin came into the perfect world Jesus had created, we all inherited a sinful nature! Because of this nature we will sometimes commit sins, and therefore, we cannot be good enough to go to heaven when we die. Jesus Christ solved this problem for us by dying for our sins, thus allowing us to go to heaven when we die! What a wonderful gift from God! Living as a Christian today puts you as part of a minority group, but when you die you will become part of the majority group in heaven! Now that is the Good News!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak
James 2:26 (NIV)
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
In the selected verse James wrote “as the body without the spirit is dead,” and here he was trying to show how our earthly body is dead when the spirit leaves it, and then, likening it to how faith without life giving action is also dead. However, today in this commentary it made me think of the spirit or soul of mankind is the life-giving factor that allows us to live forever either with or without acknowledging God as the giver of that life. I believe human life is created by God, and is only controlled by God, until God decides to end our life in this temporary cursed world!
No human being can control when God starts the process of inserting an immortal soul into the forming body of a soon to be human being. No one has “reproductive rights”, as only God can institute life, when the spirit of life or the soul is added to a forming embryo. Many, maybe most, people in the world today believe they should have the right to kill this forming human being, as they did not intend to become pregnant, they just wanted to have the pleasure of sexual activity! It seems the slogan should be we want “sexual freedom rights!” The only way to become pregnant accidentally is to participate in sexual intercourse, either consensually or by being raped!
Some years ago, if people had consensual sex and the woman became pregnant, they were expected to share in the care and raising of the offspring, as there was no legal means available to dispose of the child, since abortion was not legally available. It seems since killing your mistake became legal in 1973 in the USA many people desire to retain this as a right! It appears that more people today in the USA want to have the ability to abort their sexual blunders resulting in God starting the ”breath of life” in a human fetus. If this is not what they wanted, then they want to kill what God has started.
Jesus created the universe for a physical place for mankind to reside! This may be a rather controversial statement to many of the people living on this earth today! Many people believe there is no god or gods, and for sure no God! Such people believe that the universe created itself through a series of undirected random processes, which they currently call evolution. Many people believe in some form of a god or gods created the universe by some directed processes not totally random, and such people do not know or care how long this process took. Such people believe the process is not really that important, so they are open to many possibilities of creation, and they are referred to as theistic evolutionists. Some professing Christians believe that God used evolution as His means of creation, these people are referred to as old earth creationists.
I believe that the Bible gives us the true story of how and why God created this earth for mankind. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground—the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:4-7). Life is always started by an act of God!
From the beginning of time, God gave Adam and Eve instructions for reproducing and filling the earth He had created for them (us). God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Genesis 1:28). After the worldwide Flood gave Noah and his family the same instruction to re-fill the earth after this great flood. Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. (Genesis 9:1). Therefore, if you believe God, then there is no such thing as races of people, as we all have come from Noah’s family after the Flood.
As you can see our Bible tells us that sexual intercourse was created by God to allow us to fill the earth with our offspring, and God made it very enticing, so that we would follow His instructions to fill this earth, He had created for us. However, this enticement or lust causes people to lose their self-control to have sexual relations not wanting to fulfill God purpose of filling this earth, and then they desire to kill the resulting unwanted human child. God gave us ten commandments to guide us through this life. The first four related to how we are to honor God.
The next six commandments relate to how we are to honor other members of mankind! God first reminded us that Jesus Christ had created everything in just six days.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
"You shall not murder.
"You shall not commit adultery.
"You shall not steal.
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
(Exodus 20:11-17).
Note: If we observed these commands there would be no need for “abortion” as no one would ever become pregnant who did not desire to be with child!!
Although our nation is rapidly becoming anti-Christian in belief and practice, we Christians can still best serve our nation and our Savior by practicing and proclaiming Christ’s wonderful saving gospel of free salvation from sin and regeneration unto righteousness. (From: HMM of ICR)
When sin came into the perfect world Jesus had created, we all inherited a sinful nature! Because of this nature we will sometimes commit sins, and therefore, we cannot be good enough to go to heaven when we die. Jesus Christ solved this problem for us by dying for our sins, thus allowing us to go to heaven when we die! What a wonderful gift from God! Living as a Christian today puts you as part of a minority group, but when you die you will become part of the majority group in heaven! Now that is the Good News!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak