Do I Have To Believe In God?

 

The Holy God Most High Summons Everyone To Say They Are Sorry

God is all together holy without even the smallest shade of wrong in Himself.
Sovereign God is the creator of honesty, love, holiness, patience, purity and infinitely more than that. And that is precisely how He created humanity.

Do You Actually Know God Most High?

This is not a plan that God simply made a decision to enact, to make life harder for humans, it's who He is. God Most High, cannot be something else, or act another way. Each and every one of His governing laws are there to guard His disposition and to preserve us.
These governing laws were designed 'into' the whole cosmos, which includes, built into humankind.
Sovereign God cannot do anything that is inconsistent with Himself. One could call it the 'abiding governing laws of the whole universe.'
Hence, the God of the Bible is the Grand Maker God of the whole cosmos, as well as the builder of the littlest part of an atom, which is undetectable to us. The Bible tells us this of God:

?I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to idols. (Isaiah 42:8) for your God Jehovah is a consuming fire?a zealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
For thine, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the beauty and the majesty and the honor; for thou art the ruler over all that is in the heaven and on the earth; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and the wisdom and the might and the knowledge. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
Then all the angels stood around the throne...and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!..... (Job 38:4)
I'm certain you must be able to, since you were already born when I created everything... (Job 38:21)
"Can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And LORD JEHOVAH answered and said to Job: ?Many are the counselors of God, and he who rebukes God gives an answer!? Job said to the LORD: Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth. ?I have spoken once, and I will not reply; Or twice, and I will add nothing more.?..... "Would you undo my justice? Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous? Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: -- "I know that you can do everything and that your plans are unstoppable. You asked, ?Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ?Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask Thee, and do Thou instruct me.? I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth Thee; So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:1-6)
Blessed are they, that are of an humble spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the Messias. (Matthew 5:3)


The majority of humanity at present, have only been told about God, they have not actually connected with Him.
Then so why, do people arrogantly demand explanations from the God of Heaven, to all the things we take issue with? Yes indeed, the big doubts we have of universal justice and the crimes against the innocent are appropriate, however, not to the point where we can demand that the Supreme God Most High to offer us an account of His presumed poor management of life.

The Designer Owns Their Particular Construction, Legally

Sovereign God not only owns the universe, but He also owns us too, and what He wants is what is His. His command is to love and serve Him in turn. It's hard to swallow, but this planet is His enterprise, and He can formulate it however He wishes. If we produced it, we would set the rules. However, God Most High says:

'"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

Almighty God Does Not Desire Human-Like Machines For Intimate Friends, He Wished For Real Individuals

God may perhaps have removed every danger from your world, to give us a less troublesome life, but only by making everyone as obedient robotic machines. Except that is definitely not what He desired.
God Most High sought beings endowed with free choice and would voluntarily decide to be devoted to Him.
A being somewhat like Himself.

There Is Risk Of Affording People Free Will

But, the danger with giving your produced creature their own ability to decide how they lived, is that they might forsake you, and that is definitely what we have done.
This is a catastrophe, consider all those instances we do and also think about think about and also do that are bad, often called sin in the Scriptures, they totally desecrate God's order and godliness, and once again, you can say desecrating the Abiding Laws of all the cosmos - the ordered cosmos He produced. These sins have separated us from the Most High God.

'"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable? who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think of it like this nauseating contrast. A fresh sterile wipe taken out of a new unopened pack to sterilize your badly bleeding wound, now, when compared with a second-hand, dirty wipe having been walked and sat upon for 7 days off the patients area chairs or floor. How would you feel? Argh, gross!. Well, that is a mere sniff of how Almighty God is revolted by our behaviour that is bad, and that involves the seemingly unimportant things we did bad and bad thinking, that trample on God's perfection, and breaks the uncompromising laws of the whole universe.
And that includes the stuff we believe are unimportant, such as: neglecting Holy God our Creator, conceit, using God's Name in vain, refusing to forgive someone that wronged us and bitterness, and a range of other things.

Everyone Of These Wrong Things Are A Debt That Have Got To Be Paid For, To A Sin-Loathing God

Our sins are debts to God:
'And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

These and other bad things are violating the everlasting pureness, honour and power of God. For any time we act one, it is to give God a slam in the face. In the Scriptures, contained in His Law, God tells us that it is wrong to steal, have you on any occasion stolen anything ever? God tells us not to use God's Name in vain or flippantly. Have you ever blasphemed His Holy Name? God tells us never to yearn for things that belong to others. Have you even once had a strong desire to have another person's life circumstances, home, partner or stuff? God declares that we honour our parents. Have you ever talked back to your father?

God is aware of everything. And, each and every bad thing has to be paid for. The point in time is soon coming when every single bad thing MUST be punished, or it could be said, reconciled to heal and be one with the unchanging laws of all the cosmos. Or as the Word of God describes it; to conciliate the anger of Almighty God. This may come as a surprise to almost everyone, due to the fact they are told that God really loves all and sundry a great deal, that they believe that God would never be enraged with any person over some evil they have done.

Regularly I find people, blind to these principles, contending ?This isn't the kind of god I was told about? What's this additional condition on purity??

And I enlighten them, "Of course, God Most High does love people, however, humans are unable to receive the love element of God Most High and neglect the perfection element. It is impossible. It is plainly expressed in Scripture, but people are hardly ever told about this key fact. Regrettably, these days preachers mostly just convey the pleasant things, rather than the whole distasteful teaching.
We are unable to know the Eternal God by with our worldly objectives, calculations and conduct. He absolutely is ?outa this world? and He conveys to us just who, He really is and about how He operates in his book. Insisting that He abide by our system, just gives us a futile faith in something that is not real and will crash and burn one day soon.
Human beings mistakenly blame God for the troubles in life, however, it is definitely not God?s fault. He produced the whole thing exquisitely, Adam and Eve botch it and we continue to screw up. They desecrate God's order and godliness; the 'abiding governing laws of the whole universe.' Holy God cannot simply come in and make all things nice for humanity. The order or process of this life that He put in place, must be completed.
Our sin debt has to be paid.

But, God presented a plan for our evil to be convicted and judged, to satisfy the legal conditions of God's everlasting Law, the abiding law of the whole universe. That stunning plan, was the crucifixion, dying, burial and the resurrection of His Only Son, Christ. And, this stunning masterstroke was performed in public in front of the audience of all creation in the universe ? humans, angelic beings and demons.
Jesus was the perfect sacrificial payment that is able to pay the bill for our bad stuff; attitudes, ways and thinking. Absolutely nothing else could pay for our wickedness.
The Bible says:

'For all alike have sinned (done wrongs things), and all consciously come short of the glory of God,' (Romans 3:23)
So, merely being a 'really good boy or girl? and doing much good cannot protect us from the significant consequence of the bad attitudes, ways and thinking, just Jesus Christ is able to. If the only thing you do in your life is be the perfect man or woman and that may include going to church, that will not protect anyone and will never allow for anybody to enter into heaven. This means, going to hell, also called everlasting torment:

'for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

No, it is not doing good that saves us, we need to repent of all of the bad things we did, and live fully for God. I will explain this more later.

This is why I find that being at funeral services of a person who is not a Christian troubles me greatly. Which is also the reason my major ambition in life is informing people about who God really is. To reveal to those who never go to church, as well as, to those who do go to church but still do not effectively comprehended what it was about. The false impression of God is common, and is given that the teaching they listened to was ambiguous or it was jeopardised by the erroneous ideas of the current philosophical system, from pastors constantly attempting to make the Timeless, Changeless Great God to look as though He is just a kind, huggable grandfather type god, devoid of His perfect purity and the punishment of sinnful sins. That is definitely a phony god of their make-believe.
Repeatedly I observe a person assert ?How can God be like that, I thought He was the God of love?? That is true, but you will never dispense with God's punishment of sinnful sins, when His Bible pronounces way more on the subject of His purity and punishment of sinnful sins, than His love.
You cannot appreciate the Eternal God with our principles and principles. He really is ?not of this world? and He tells humankind who He really is and that He rules in the Holy Bible. Expecting Him to conform to our rules, just gives us a dangerously incorrect belief of Almighty God.
And don't forget, you will find no way to fake it if you don't actually mean it. God is aware of all that you are thinking.

God Most High Made Available The Compensation For All Of Our Wrong Stuff, On These Terms...

The only method to have these sins discharged and get a passport to our heavenly home, is to realize how wicked we are in front of a Most holy God, and also to say that we are repentant for all our wickedness. And afterward to totally hand over one's life to Him, and become an apprentice of God as our leader for the rest of our lifetime. Fundamentally this, is the true order of humans in the world He produced for Himself:

'Then he said to them all, ?If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

Jesus did not declare ?Now be a good or kind person, perform some good deeds for other people, and you will be with me in the next life .?
No, this is what the Creator God stated concerning being acquitted of your wickedness:

'He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous posing outwardly as upright and in right standing with God, and who viewed others with contempt:
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-farmer. The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my entire income.' But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, 'God, have pity on me, a sinner!'
"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Teacher of the law in this story does not do the supposedly ?bad' evil like kidnap, as we say, but he did not receive mercy by Holy God.
While the collector of taxes commits ?bad' sins yet was acquitted by Sovereign God, given that he truly grieved over his sin.
It is a humbling act to state we have been and are, wrong and to submit our lives entirely to God. But devoid of it we are not able to be saved from our iniquities, we have to come to Sovereign God very humble and incapable. Jesus said :

'And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them And said, Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

Just Doing Many Remarkable Things For God Won't Rescue Humans

'for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Do You Prefer Reality Of Hell Or Surrender Your Lifetime To God?

'Then he said to them all, ?If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

And ?Carry our cross every day? means, we need to serve in a self-giving mode on a daily basis for our new faith.
The Bible also says:

'I call on you, therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies [as] a sacrifice?living, sanctified, acceptable to God?your intelligent service; (Romans 12:1)

'But dedicate your lives to Christ as Lord. Always be ready to defend your confidence in God when anyone asks you to explain it. However, make your defense with gentleness and respect.' (1Peter 3:15)

In brief: Jesus Christ will become your chief executive. For keeps. And as His Book commands, we live for God, studies in the Scriptures, talking with God each day, sharing with others who God is, and assisting people when lead to. Sovereign God, is our goal and campaign for the remainder of our lives.

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