Is It Important To Believe In God?

 

The Holy God Most High Calls Each Person To Apologise

God is entirely perfect without ever having even the least hint of bad in His nature.
God is the initiator of purity, love, holiness, patience, honesty and much, much more. And that is how He made humanity.

Do You Really Know God Most High?

It isn't an idea that God simply chose to do, to make life harder for us, it really is who He is. God Most High, cannot become anything else, or act another way. Each and every one of His commandments are in place to shield His holy character and to protect you and I.
These governing laws were designed INTO the whole cosmos, and of course, installed into mankind.
The Holy God cannot do anything that contradicts His Nature. One may label it the 'everlasting laws of the cosmos.'
And so, the God of the Holy Bible is the Great Maker God of the complete cosmos, as well as the producer of the littlest component of an electron, which is indiscernible to us. Here is how the Bible depicts 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) Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The LORD is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
You are great and powerful, glorious, splendid, and majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours, and you are king, supreme ruler over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
And all the angels stood around the throne...and fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God, (Revelation 7:11)
?Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding... (Job 38:4)
Do you remember when you were born, and do you know if you will live many days?..... (Job 38:21)
Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And the Lord went on, and said to Job : "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Then Job answered the Lord, saying: "Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth. ?I have spoken once, but I will not reply again? Indeed, twice I have answered, and I will add nothing further.?..... Will you make my judgment null and void; and will you condemn me so that you may be justified? "Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said: I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted. Who am I to think that I can give counsel without knowledge? Therefore thou hast declared to me that I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me which I did not know. ?Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.? I heard about you from others; now I have seen you with my own eyes. Therefore I despise myself, 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)


Most humanity these days, have only heard about God, they are yet to really connected with Him.
For what reason then, do humans self-importantly expect all the answers from Sovereign God, to anything and everything we disagree with? Of course, the practical concerns we have of proper justice and the innocent that suffer are good, nonetheless not to the degree where we can command the Supremely powerful Sovereign God to provide us an explanation of His seemingly deficient handling of the world.

A Crafted Thing Is Legally Owned By The Maker

The Most High God not only is the owner of the whole cosmos, but He also is the owner of us also, and what He requires is what belongs to Him. His command is to love and serve Him back. It's hard to swallow, but this planet is His enterprise, and He is able to construct it how He wishes. If I or you produced it, we can set the rules. However, God proclaims:

'You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

Humans Haven't Been Constructed As Androids Or Pet Dogs But Rather As Loved Ones

The Creator God may possibly have taken every threat out of this life, to make this life nicer, but only by creating every individual as subservient robotic machines. Except that is absolutely not what the Creator God sought.
God Most High wished for a being endowed with a choice about how they lived and would willingly choose to be devoted to Him.
A being somewhat resembling Himself.

If You Provide Individuals With Free Will They Could Snub You

However, the problem with giving your created living being their own potential to choose how they lived, is that they may possibly turn against the creator, and that is exactly what we did.
This is a problem, think about all those things we do or think about think about or do which are bad, often also known as sinfulness in the Bible, they entirely infringe on God's character and righteousness, and again, you could say violating the Fixed Governing laws of the cosmos - the controlled cosmos He put together. These trespasses have separated us from God.

'"Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can discern his errors? clear thou me from hidden faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think of it like this disgusting comparison. A new sterile and clean swab taken out of a brand new unopened pack to sterilize your badly bleeding wound, now, contrast that with a second-hand, unsterilized swab which has been sat and stepped upon for one week from the doctor's area floor or seating. So how are you feeling? Ick, repugnant. Well then, that is only a sniff of how the Creator God feels about our conduct that is bad, which includes the so-called minor stuff we do bad and think about, that dishonor His honour, and breaks the unalterable laws of the cosmos.
Even the bad things we believe are minor, for example: thinking hateful things somebody, failing to obey God, being unthankful to God, dirty language and white lies, and so many more.

Blemishes And Bad Stuff Before A Flawless God Have To Be Paid Back

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

These and other things assault the flawless purity, holiness and supremacy of the Most High God. For any time we behave in these ways, it is to give God a smack in the head. In the Bible, contained in the Ten Commandments, God declares that we respect our father and mother. Have you ever talked back to your parents? God pronounces don't yearn for stuff that belong to others. Have you even once coveted to have a friend's life circumstances, home, partner or stuff? God pronounces that it is bad to thieve, have you even once stolen anything you needed? God pronounces not to speak His Sacred name in vain meaning, indifferently. At any time, have you ever desecrated His Holy Name?

God has all knowledge. And, each and every sin has to be paid for. A time will come when ALL sin MUST be punished, or you could say, finalise accounts to be in harmony with the changeless laws of the cosmos. Or alternatively, the Bible calls it; to appease the fury of Sovereign God. This may come as a shocker to most, given that they are told that God loves everybody a great deal, that they think that Almighty God can hardly be angry with somebody due to some evil they have done.

Over and over I see people, unaware of these fundamentals, asking ?That's not the sort of god I heard about? What is this added condition on sinlessness??

And I tell them, "Certainly, Sovereign God does love humanity, nonetheless humans are not able to take the love aspect of Almighty God and ignore the perfection aspect. It really is not possible. It is openly expressed in the Bible, and people are not usually told about such things. Regrettably, these days people just tell the pleasant teachings, not the whole unlikable truth.
People will never understand the Everlasting God by with our earthly perspectives, feelings and behaviour. Sovereign God genuinely is ?not of this world? and He shows us exactly who, He really is and how He rules in the Word of God. Wanting Him to follow our system, just gives us a useless faith in a belief that is not real and is going to collapse sometime.
Human beings wrongly find fault with Almighty God for the tragedies in the world, but it is far from God?s fault. He made the whole thing superbly, It was Adam who ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They infringe on God's character and righteousness; the 'everlasting laws of the cosmos.' Holy God cannot simply come in and make all things good for us. The directives or course of the world that He started, has to come to it's normal end.
Each and every debt of transgression must be paid.

But, God offered a means for our bad stuff to be paid in full, to pay the spiritually legal obligations of God's uncompromising Law, the permanent law of the cosmos. That spectacular means, was the crucifying, death, burial and being raised back to life of His Son, The Lord Jesus. And, this spectacular victory was achieved in public before all creation ? humans, angelic beings and Satan.
Jesus was the flawless sacrifice that can pay the price our wrong; attitudes, thoughts and behavior. Absolutely nothing else is able to pay for our bad stuff.
The Bible says:

'For all have sinned (done wrongs stuff) and fall short of the glory of God?' (Romans 3:23)
So, being a 'good little boy or girl? and doing much good will not spare anyone from the grim punishment of the evil attitudes, thoughts and behavior, just Jesus can. If the only thing one does in their life is be a very good woman or man and even go to church, that doesn't spare anybody and do not allow for a person to get into heaven. That means, going away to the Lake of Fire, specifically hell:

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

No, it is not being good that will save you and I, you need to apologize for the many sins you did, and be a servant of the Most High God. I shall explain this more later.

This is why I find that going to funeral services of one that is not a follower of Jesus Christ disturbs me intensely. This is also why my main concern in this life is telling others about what Sovereign God is really like. To say to people who do not go to church, and more than that, to folks who do go to church but haven't yet correctly understood what it was really about. The misunderstanding of the Creator God is not uncommon, and is either because the teaching they heard was ambiguous or it was destroyed by the untrue traditions of modern political correctness, from church leaders constantly attempting to cause the Endless, Changeless Great God to appear as if He is just a kind, warm grandpa type god, lacking His perfect righteousness and the punishment of wrong stuff. That is a pretend god of their make-believe.
Frequently I see agnostics argue ?Tell me how can God be like that, I thought He loves us?? Yes, but humans could not discard Almighty God's punishment of wrong stuff, because His Bible says a lot more as regards His sanctity and punishment of wrong stuff, than His great love.
You cannot understand the Eternal God by using our values and practices. Sovereign God really is ?not of this world? and He shows humankind who He really is and the manner in which He governs in the Scriptures. Wanting Him to conform to human standards, just gives us a perilously bad notion of Holy God.
But, just remember, you will find no possible means to hide it from God when you are not authentic. Almighty God is aware of our each and every thought on your mind.

God Offered The Repayment For A Person's Wrongdoing, Yet...

In order to have the sins pardoned and be rescued from hell, is to realise how bad we really are before a Sinless God, and also to tell God that we are shameful of everything we did bad. And the next step is to utterly give up our life to Him, and be subject to His ruling as boss for the rest of our lifetime. This, is the true pattern of humans on the planet He formed for Himself:

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

Jesus didn't declare ?Simply be a good or kindly person, do many good things for other individuals, and you will never go to the lake of fire .?
Actually, this is what God pronounced as regards how to be acquitted of your iniquity:

'Now about certain persons who consider themselves to be just, while disdaining others, he told also this parable:
?Two men went up to The Temple to pray: one a Pharisee and the other a Tax Collector.? The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ?I thank you, God, that I am not like other people?cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I?m certainly not like that tax collector! I fast twice between Sabbaths. I give tithes from all that I possess.? And the tax collector standing afar off was not willing even to lift up his eyes unto heaven, but was striking his breast, saying, God, extend propitiation to me, the sinner!
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Pharisee in this parable does not do the presumed ?really bad' sins like arson, as we like to say, nevertheless he was not forgiven by Holy God.
Yet, the taxman did do ?really bad' evils yet was acquitted by God, because he really repented.
It is a humbling undertaking to acknowledge we are and have been, sinful and to submit our future absolutely to the Creator God. However, lacking it we wouldn't be rescued from our wrongdoings, we have to come to Sovereign God humble and reliant on Him. Jesus said :

'and Jesus called a child to him, set him in the midst of them. And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

Just By Doing Lovely Things For God Is Not Going To Deliver Humans

'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Repent And Allow The Lord Jesus To Pay For Your Entire Sin Or Suffer Yourself??

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

To ?Carry one's cross day by day? indicates, we have to obey in a self-sacrificing fashion on a daily basis for our new faith.
The Bible also says:

'I beg you therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God by a logical service. (Romans 12:1)

'but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.' (1Peter 3:15)

Put simply: God Most High becomes your boss. Permanently. And as His Book teaches, we live for Jesus Christ, studying the Bible, communicating with God daily, telling other people about God, and assisting anyone when guided to. Sovereign God, becomes our purpose and reason for the whole of our lives.

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