Friday, November 14, 2008

The Mysteries of Christianity


Mystery one:

Christianity is based on the belief in a God that is supreme to any other being that existed or have ever existed. It also holds fast to the belief that this omnipotent, omnipresence God created the universe and every thing in it. According to John 1: 1-3 “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the Beginning with God. All things were made by Him (God) and without Him (God)was not anything made which was made.” This bible passage suggested that God is the creator of everything that was made. Genesis chapter one vividly detailed how God created the heaven and the earth the sea and dry land and everything in them is.

It is said that God is so awesome that nothing occurs without his appointment. The waves that roll upon the shores were first ordered to do so by him and even the splashing sounds of the waves are made by him. In short nothing happens without his knowledge and permission.

But the biggest mystery that seems to baffles the mind of man is where God came from. As far as human understanding goes, everything must have an origin, a place, and time where its existence began. We understand that this world was created by God, and the existence of every living thing begins with the omnipotent God who dwelled everywhere and does everything at the same time; but the big question is where God’s existence began?

Mystery two:

The Bible teaches that God created the heavens and all that dwell in them. In Job we also learnt that there are other worlds in our universe all created by the omnipotent God. The Heaven, were perfect there were no sign of corruption, not even a title of defilement there. Yet a perfect creature, in a perfect environment, worshiping a perfect God and who have never been expose to anything other then perfection became corrupted and defile. The nature of Lucifer’s perfection is chronicled in Ezekiel 28: 14 and 15. Revelation 12: 7-9 speak of the devils expulsion from his lofty position serving God.

You see we can understand how man (who was also created perfect, by a perfect God and place in a perfect environment) became corrupted. In the case of man, he was exposed to corruption or one who was corrupt. When Satan was banished from heaven and was cast down to the earth; right there and then earth’s perfect environment cease to exist.

So with the influence of the corrupt being (who man was created a little lower than); man learnt how to become corrupt and thus made the decision not to continue to wear his robe of perfection.

But the second greatest mystery in Christianity still baffles man even after five thousand years plus. How corruption did enter the heart of a perfect heavenly being?

These two phenomenon seems to be baffling Christians from the beginning of time. These are questions we all can seek answer for if we make it into God’s kingdom. There are so many things about Christianity and life that baffle us now that we will be able to seek answer for, when you think of it; if you make it into heaven will it really matter if you had an answer to these questions.

It is possible that all these questions that germinate in out minds are the way the devil plant seeds of doubt in our minds; a titles of doubt in the hope that we will lose faith in God, his love, his goodness and his plan of salvation.

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