Do You Have To Be Christian To Believe In God?

 

The Holy God Most High Summons Each Person To Apologise

God is completely holy devoid of even the smallest tint of wrong in His nature.
God is the architect of holiness, patience, honesty, purity, love and infinitely more. And that is precisely how He made people.

Just Who Is God Most High

This is not something that God simply made a decision to do, to make things difficult for you and I, it's who He is. God Most High, can never be anything else, or act another way. All His commandments are there to guard His holy nature and to protect humans.
These dynamics were built 'into' the entire cosmos, and more than that, built into human beings.
The Holy God can't do anything that opposes His Being. One could describe it as the 'unshakable laws of the cosmos.'
And so, the Sovereign God of the Holy Bible is the Grand Builder God of the complete cosmos, as well as the architect of the smallest piece of an atom, which is too small to see. The Bible declares this of God:

"I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. (Isaiah 42:8) For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens! (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, O Lord, is magnificence and power and glory, and also victory; and to you is praise. For all the things that are in heaven and on earth are yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are above all rulers. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
And all the angels stood round about the throne...and fell down before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding... (Job 38:4)
Do you know it, because you were then born? Or are the number of your days great?..... (Job 38:21)
can thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said: Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it. Then Job replied to the LORD and said, Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth. I have spoken once, but I have no answer?twice, but I have nothing to add.?..... Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job answered the LORD, and said: ?I Know that you can do all these things, and no mind is hidden from you You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know. 'Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.' I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you. Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes.? (Job 42:1-6)
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)


Generally, people now, have only been told about God, they are yet to genuinely found Him.
For what reason then, do humans conceitedly demand all the answers from the Great God, to anything and everything we don't agree with? Needless to say, the significant questions we have of the children that suffer and of proper justice are correct, however, not to the point where we can command the Almighty God Most High to provide humans an explanation of His supposedly unsatisfactory handling of this life.

A Producer Is The Owner Of Their Personal Conception, That's The Law

Holy God not only is the owner of the whole universe, but He also is the owner of us too, and all He requires is what is His. His requirement is to be devoted to Him back. It can be difficult to accept, but this planet is His business, and He will build it however He wants. If we produced it, we could make the rules. However, God tells us:

'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 am commanding you today have been on your heart,' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

We Were Not Constructed As Androids Or Even As A Dog But Rather As Members Of The Family

God may perhaps have taken the threat out of your life, to grant us a nice life, but only by building each of us as submissive robotic machines. But that is without a doubt not what the Creator God wished for.
God Most High wished for beings that enjoyed a choice about how they lived and would voluntarily decide to be devoted to Him.
A living being something resembling what He is.

Independent Choice Is A Risky Dimension

But, the problem with giving your created living being their own capacity to decide how they lived, is that they may possibly reject the creator, and that is definitely what we did.
This is a critical issue, consider all those instances we commit and think about think about and commit that are bad, it is often called wickedness in the Bible, they completely pollute Holy God's nature and godliness, and once again, you could say violating the Changeless Governing laws of the very cosmos - the structured cosmos He put together. These trespasses have divorced us from the Most High God.

'?The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think of it like this ghastly contrast. A fresh clean and sterile swab taken out of a brand new sealed packet to treat your badly bleeding laceration, now, when compared with a second-hand, dirty swab that has been walked and sat upon for one week off the patients area seating or flooring. Ask yourself how are you feeling? Yucky, outrageous. But, that is a mere hint of how God Most High is repulsed by our behaviour that is bad, even the seemingly little matters we do bad as well as incorrect attitudes, that trample on God's honour, and desecrates the unchangeable laws of the cosmos.
Even the stuff we believe are little, for instance: showing no gratitude to God, being dishonest, not serving Almighty God, detesting someone and swearing, and a countless of other things.

Everyone Of These Sins Are A Debt That Have Got To Be Paid Out, To A Sin-Loathing God

Our sins are debts to God:
'and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

These and other bad things are violations of the everlasting purity, righteousness and leadership of God Most High. Each time we behave in these ways, it is slamming the face of God Most High. In the Scriptures, contained in His Law, God declares that we honor our parents. Did you ever talkback to your mother or father? God pronounces never to speak God's Holy name in vain or frivolously. At any time, have you ever desecrated His Name? God pronounces that it is wrong to steal, have you at some time, thieved anything ever? God pronounces do not covet things that belong to others. Have you ever coveted to have a person's life, house, wife or things?

God Most High knows about everything. And, every single sin MUST be judged. A time is soon coming when every sin WILL be judged, or you could say, pay outstanding bills to be in harmony with the abiding laws of the very cosmos. Or as the Holy Bible calls it; to placate the anger of God. This may come as a shocker to most people, due to the fact they have been told that The Creator God really loves all and sundry endlessly, that they believe that The Almighty God could never be enraged with anyone because of any wrong they have done.

Constantly I hear people, blind to these fundamentals, argue ?But, I was told that Your God ceaselessly loves humankind? What's this extra command on righteousness??

And I enlighten them, "Certainly, He actually does love the world, nonetheless humans are unable to get the love quality of Holy God and ignore the sinlessness quality. It's impossible. It is definitely explained in Scripture, but you are almost never told of this key fact. Unfortunately, in this time in history people just convey the nice things, not the entire uncomfortable teaching.
Humans are unable to understand the Eternal God by means of our worldly thinking, anticipations and conduct. God Most High absolutely is ?from an alternative time and place? and He shows humans who He really is and the ways He operates in the Bible. Requiring Him to follow our system, just gives us a pointless optimism in a belief that is not factual and is going to crash and burn eventually.
Human beings incorrectly find fault with The Creator God for the tragedies in life, however, it is hardly God?s doing. He made it all exquisitely, It was Adam who messed up and we continue to screw up. They pollute Holy God's nature and godliness; the 'unshakable laws of the cosmos.' Almighty God could not simply come in and make it all perfect for us. The order or process of the world that Sovereign God set in motion, has to come to it's natural end.
Our debts of sinfulness have to be paid.

Having said that, God made available a plan for our sin to be convicted and judged, to pay the legal obligations of God's abiding Law, the changeless law of the cosmos. And that incredible plan, was the nailing to a cross, dying, burial and the raising back to life of His Son, Jesus of Nazareth. And, this incredible fulfillment was achieved for all to see in front of the audience of all creation in the universe ? mankind, angelic beings and the Devil.
Jesus Christ was the perfect sacrificial Lamb that can pay the price our evil; ways, thoughts and attitudes. Nothing else could pay for all our bad stuff.
The Bible says:

'for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God'' (Romans 3:23)
So, solely living 'an wonderfully good' life and doing much good is unable to spare you and I from the dreadful penalty of the evil ways, thoughts and attitudes, just the Lord Jesus can. If all we do during life is to be the perfect person and maybe even going to church, that will not spare any person and won't allow any person to get into heaven. Which means, going to hell, also known as the Lake of Fire:

'For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

Truly, it is not doing good that saves humans, we have to apologise for the many evil stuff we do, and live fully for God Most High. I will describe this more in a moment.

This is the reason I find that going to a funeral of one that is not a Christian really troubles me. Now this is also why my major priority in life is sharing with others about who the Creator God really is. To inform others who never go to church, and, to individuals that also do go to church but do not properly fully understood the whole truth. The misconception of the Creator God is widespread, and is mainly because the preaching they listened to was not clear or it was weakened by the deceptive beliefs of modern political correctness, from preachers constantly attempting to cause the Everlasting, Unchangeable God Most High to appear as though He is only a nice, snuggly grandfather type god, devoid of His incredible purity and the judging of bad stuff. Which is a false god from their feelings.
Over and over I find people argue ?How could God be like this, I thought He loves us?? Yes, but humans can't reject Almighty God's fearsome justice, when His Scriptures declares significantly more concerning His sanctity and fearsome justice, than His great love.
It is not possible to know the Timeless God by using our thinking and practices. God Most High actually is ?out of this world? and He teaches us who He really is and about how He governs in the Bible. Hoping he may adhere to my standards, only provides us with a precariously incorrect notion of God Most High.
Now bear in mind, you will find no possible way to trick God into thinking you truly belong to Him if you don't really mean it. God is aware of our every thought you think.

But, Repent And One Does Not Have To Repay The Deficit

The sole way to have ones own transgressions pardoned and kept out of hell, is to realise how offensive we are in front of a Sinless God, and also to say that we are ashamed of what we did bad. And afterward to completely give up your own being to God, and conform to His command as boss for the rest of our existence. Fundamentally this, is the true configuration of our existence in the world He built for Himself:

'Then Jesus said to all of them, ?If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

Jesus Christ in no way stated ?Simply be a good or pleasant person, accomplish various good deeds for other individuals, and you will not ever go to the lake of fire .?
It's a fact, this is what God Most High said regarding being pardoned of your sinfulness:

'To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
two men went to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a Publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my entire income.' And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat himself on the chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner. '
?I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted.?' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Religious man in this message is not involved in the so-called ?bad' evil like child abuse, as we like to say, however he was not forgiven by Almighty God.
The tax collector did do ?bad' wrong things but was pardoned by God, because he truly apologised.
It is a humiliating exercise to confess we are and have been, sinful and to give up our future completely to the Creator God. Yet devoid of it we cannot be redeemed from our wrongdoings, we have got to come to Sovereign God submissive and powerless. Jesus Christ said :

'And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them. And said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted and become like as the little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

One's Own Deficit Will Not Be Settled By Living As An Exceptionally Decent Character

'For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Repent And Allow The Lord Jesus To Repay Your Shortfall Or Not??

'Then Jesus said to all of them, ?If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

This, ?Carry one's cross each day? means, we have to live in a self-sacrificing manner on a daily basis for our new faith.
The Bible also says:

'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)

'However sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready with a defense to everyone asking you a word concerning the hope in you; yet with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

Put simply: Jesus Christ becomes your owner. Permanently. And as the Bible teaches, we live for God, studies in the Scriptures, communicating with God each day, sharing with others who God is, and serving some others when lead to. God Most High, really is our goal and crusade for all of our existence.

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