Adam, a simple man created by God, lived happily in the Garden of Eden until he was persuaded by a whirling wind (the devil) to eat the forbidden fruit. This led to his transformation. His pure heart was replaced with a faulty, disease-prone mind. As a result, man lost his perfect health, wisdom and relationship with God. He became ashamed, inferior and subject to problems. God cursed man and banished him from the garden, ending his blissful life.
The Roman Catholic Church
This denomination is a traditional group of Christians who believe in Natural Law: doing what God intended in a natural way. Up until the C16th Catholics were the dominant group of Christians in Europe. Catholics are controlled by the Pope in Rome
Protestant Churches
These are the Christian groups that developed after Martin Luther’s debate in 1517.
These are modern Christians who have re-interpreted the Bible and have a different view to the Roman Catholics.
These Christians are NOT controlled by the Pope.
Many people have wondered what God might be like. Christians believe that he has certain attributes that define him.
Adam and Eve were created by God and placed in the garden of Eden. They had everything they wanted. But one day a serpent appeared and asked Eve to get him some fruit. He asked for fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was the one tree whose fruit they couldn’t eat. Eve took the fruit and ate some herself. Seeing that nothing bad had happened she took the fruit to Adam to eat and he did. God knew of their disobedience and punished them for their actions. It is due to them that nature is out of balance with humanity and evil exists in the world. Had Adam and Eve obeyed God, evil would not exist
Lucifer was an angel in Heaven with God and all the other angels. However, he was not happy with his situation; he was jealous of God’s power. Lucifer challenged God, but God is omnipotent and easily defeated Lucifer, casting him out of Heaven into Hell below. Since then, Lucifer, or Satan, has worked to get revenge on God. He does this through causing pain and suffering to what God loves best: humans
Although millions of people believe in God there are still plenty of people who argue that God cannot exist if evil does: they are a contradiction
The Problem of Evil and Suffering
If God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent then how can evil exist?
If God is loving he would want to stop evil
If God was powerful he would be able to stop evil
So why doesn’t he?!
There are a number of responses to this question, some religious and some not
This document provides examples of how believers are able to see the hidden wisdom and goodness in difficult situations and events. It discusses how prophets and believers remained patient and submitted to God during trials. Some key points:
1) Believers know that all difficulties created by God are actually tests from Him and are filled with beauty, even if not apparent. Their absolute belief is that everything is created for an auspicious purpose.
2) Examples are given of prophets like Abraham, Moses, and Joseph who remained steadfast during trials like illness, persecution, and imprisonment, knowing events were part of God's plan.
3) Losing wealth can be a test from God, but believers accept it knowing there
The Apologetics Research Society, along with the South Florida Church of Christ put on a Christian Evidence weekend in Miami/Dade and Broward County, including at Florida International University Sept. 18-20, 2015. The audio and some of the power points and outlines are attached.
In the Bible, many women are mentioned as mighty leaders and faith-filled prophets of God. These women faced great trials and tribulations and overcame them with faith and endurance. These ordinary people made unprecedented decisions that transformed them into extraordinary legends. They had a high level of conviction and determination that only a few people could match up to their exceptional standards. Here are 12 examples of strong and influential women leaders in the Bible that can teach us very important lessons on leadership in times of struggle, unease, and discord. Visit us at bibilium.com, a wholesome Christian blog that caters to the need of every member of the family. Spread the Love and Share the Joy. Celebrate the amazing goodness of God in your lives.
The document discusses the philosophical problem of evil - how can a completely good, all-knowing, and all-powerful God allow evil to exist in the world? It outlines several theistic explanations, including: 1) Evil as non-being, where evil is an absence rather than positive thing; 2) Dualism, where an opposing evil power exists; and 3) Moral theory, where God limits evil by nature but allows free will which can lead to suffering. It highlights the need to understand Augustine of Hippo and Irenaeus' attempts to explain how God's love is compatible with suffering and evil in the world.
This document provides summaries of 12 inspirational leaders from the Bible:
Noah obeyed God's command to build an ark even though he was alone in his faith. Abraham embraced the unknown when God called him to leave his home. Joseph endured difficult circumstances with a vision that sustained him. Moses courageously stood up for the Israelites facing slavery. Joshua led by example rather than command. Samuel honestly admonished people when they did wrong. David faced the giant Goliath without fear. Isaiah rose to the occasion when called to be a prophet. Daniel maintained his resolve without regard for consequences. John the Baptist called out dishonesty without fear. Peter recovered from his failure to deny Jesus. Paul was passionately driven by
The Wisdom Books were composed after the Babylonian exile and include Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, and the Song of Songs. They aim to inspire moral integrity and show how sin can lead to personal collapse. They discuss issues like justice, suffering, and finding meaning in life. A key theme is that wisdom is trusting God even when facing difficulties that cannot be understood.
The Roman Catholic Church
This denomination is a traditional group of Christians who believe in Natural Law: doing what God intended in a natural way. Up until the C16th Catholics were the dominant group of Christians in Europe. Catholics are controlled by the Pope in Rome
Protestant Churches
These are the Christian groups that developed after Martin Luther’s debate in 1517.
These are modern Christians who have re-interpreted the Bible and have a different view to the Roman Catholics.
These Christians are NOT controlled by the Pope.
Many people have wondered what God might be like. Christians believe that he has certain attributes that define him.
Adam and Eve were created by God and placed in the garden of Eden. They had everything they wanted. But one day a serpent appeared and asked Eve to get him some fruit. He asked for fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was the one tree whose fruit they couldn’t eat. Eve took the fruit and ate some herself. Seeing that nothing bad had happened she took the fruit to Adam to eat and he did. God knew of their disobedience and punished them for their actions. It is due to them that nature is out of balance with humanity and evil exists in the world. Had Adam and Eve obeyed God, evil would not exist
Lucifer was an angel in Heaven with God and all the other angels. However, he was not happy with his situation; he was jealous of God’s power. Lucifer challenged God, but God is omnipotent and easily defeated Lucifer, casting him out of Heaven into Hell below. Since then, Lucifer, or Satan, has worked to get revenge on God. He does this through causing pain and suffering to what God loves best: humans
Although millions of people believe in God there are still plenty of people who argue that God cannot exist if evil does: they are a contradiction
The Problem of Evil and Suffering
If God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent then how can evil exist?
If God is loving he would want to stop evil
If God was powerful he would be able to stop evil
So why doesn’t he?!
There are a number of responses to this question, some religious and some not
This document provides examples of how believers are able to see the hidden wisdom and goodness in difficult situations and events. It discusses how prophets and believers remained patient and submitted to God during trials. Some key points:
1) Believers know that all difficulties created by God are actually tests from Him and are filled with beauty, even if not apparent. Their absolute belief is that everything is created for an auspicious purpose.
2) Examples are given of prophets like Abraham, Moses, and Joseph who remained steadfast during trials like illness, persecution, and imprisonment, knowing events were part of God's plan.
3) Losing wealth can be a test from God, but believers accept it knowing there
The Apologetics Research Society, along with the South Florida Church of Christ put on a Christian Evidence weekend in Miami/Dade and Broward County, including at Florida International University Sept. 18-20, 2015. The audio and some of the power points and outlines are attached.
In the Bible, many women are mentioned as mighty leaders and faith-filled prophets of God. These women faced great trials and tribulations and overcame them with faith and endurance. These ordinary people made unprecedented decisions that transformed them into extraordinary legends. They had a high level of conviction and determination that only a few people could match up to their exceptional standards. Here are 12 examples of strong and influential women leaders in the Bible that can teach us very important lessons on leadership in times of struggle, unease, and discord. Visit us at bibilium.com, a wholesome Christian blog that caters to the need of every member of the family. Spread the Love and Share the Joy. Celebrate the amazing goodness of God in your lives.
The document discusses the philosophical problem of evil - how can a completely good, all-knowing, and all-powerful God allow evil to exist in the world? It outlines several theistic explanations, including: 1) Evil as non-being, where evil is an absence rather than positive thing; 2) Dualism, where an opposing evil power exists; and 3) Moral theory, where God limits evil by nature but allows free will which can lead to suffering. It highlights the need to understand Augustine of Hippo and Irenaeus' attempts to explain how God's love is compatible with suffering and evil in the world.
This document provides summaries of 12 inspirational leaders from the Bible:
Noah obeyed God's command to build an ark even though he was alone in his faith. Abraham embraced the unknown when God called him to leave his home. Joseph endured difficult circumstances with a vision that sustained him. Moses courageously stood up for the Israelites facing slavery. Joshua led by example rather than command. Samuel honestly admonished people when they did wrong. David faced the giant Goliath without fear. Isaiah rose to the occasion when called to be a prophet. Daniel maintained his resolve without regard for consequences. John the Baptist called out dishonesty without fear. Peter recovered from his failure to deny Jesus. Paul was passionately driven by
The Wisdom Books were composed after the Babylonian exile and include Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, and the Song of Songs. They aim to inspire moral integrity and show how sin can lead to personal collapse. They discuss issues like justice, suffering, and finding meaning in life. A key theme is that wisdom is trusting God even when facing difficulties that cannot be understood.
The document discusses whether God cares about humanity. It addresses the concept of deism, which believes God created the universe but is not active in it. It also discusses challenges to the idea that God cares, like the problem of evil. However, it argues that Christianity provides answers to these challenges by teaching that God reconciled humanity through Jesus, gives life purpose, and promises an eternal destiny to those who believe. The document concludes that Christianity demonstrates God does care through His actions to overcome evil and save humanity.
Sin originated with Satan's rebellion and humanity's fall. Sin is any failure to obey God's moral law through actions, attitudes, or nature. All people are deeply infected by sin, separating them from God and subjecting them to a cursed existence characterized by a sinful nature and death.
God exists because he created humans with an innate desire and need for him. While many try to fill this "God-shaped vacuum" with other things, only God can satisfy it. Evidence of intelligent design in nature points to a Creator. Scientific discoveries about the immense size and intricate laws of the universe also suggest it was created by an omnipotent God.
This document discusses objections to the ideas of heaven and hell. It addresses 17 objections to the idea of heaven, rejecting arguments that reincarnation is more reasonable, that there is no scientific evidence for heaven, that heaven is wishful thinking, a myth or legend, escapist, a distraction, a bribe, egotistical, boring, inhumane, would remove free will, eliminate individuality, remove privacy, would not involve sex, and seems alien. It also briefly discusses hell, stating that denying hell implies the Bible and Jesus are liars and allows dropping doctrines solely due to discomfort.
The document provides an overview of several Old Testament wisdom books including Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and Jonah. It discusses how these books were influenced by other Near Eastern cultures and focused on themes like leading a virtuous life and dealing with the problem of evil and suffering. The books used different genres like poetry, stories, and satire to convey messages about trusting in God and his mercy extending to all people.
Residential Bible School: Apologetics & Basic BeliefsAlwyn Lau
The document discusses the basics of Christian apologetics and addresses common questions about God, Christianity, and Jesus. It covers topics like the existence of God based on design in the universe, the problem of evil, who Jesus claimed to be, evidence for the resurrection, and what happened on the cross. It also examines the temptations of Christ in the wilderness and common threads in how the devil distorts our identity, purpose, and means of finding meaning, peace, and protection.
This document discusses common misconceptions about bondage and the spiritual world. It asserts that true identity and meaning can only be found in Christ, as the effects of sin have marred humanity's quest for self-identity and purpose. Our deepest needs can only be met by God through Jesus, who restores our original spiritual life and transforms our inner being. As Christians, our new identity is defined by being in Christ rather than our actions.
This document discusses several religious and philosophical concepts:
1. It discusses Christian teachings about behaving in a way that sustains life and following God's laws to please Him.
2. It discusses Hindu and Buddhist teachings about achieving self-realization by destroying ignorance and uniting with God. Only a few can achieve this in each age.
3. It discusses the origins of different civilizations and religions, and how they represent different aspects of the Trinity - the Indus Valley civilization represents the Holy Ghost, Mesopotamia represents the Son, and Ancient Egypt represents the Creator.
Jesus showed mercy to a Canaanite woman who begged him to heal her demon-possessed daughter. At first, Jesus did not respond and his disciples urged him to send her away. He told her that he was sent only to Israel. However, the woman persisted in her request, humbly calling him "Lord." Jesus acknowledged her great faith and healed her daughter. He then healed many others who were brought to him. The document discusses how Jesus tested but ultimately rewarded the woman's faithful prayer through her difficulties, showing his mercy.
This document discusses healing in the biblical context. It begins by summarizing the story in Exodus where after being delivered from Egypt, the Israelites found bitter water in the wilderness and Moses healed it by throwing a log in it. God then revealed himself as Yahweh-Rophe, the Lord who heals. The document then discusses different aspects of healing in the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on healing meaning wholeness in body, mind and spirit. It provides suggestions for how to receive inner healing such as through faith, resting in God, holiness, forgiveness and giving. An example is given of John D. Rockefeller finding healing through changing his purpose to serving others.
This document is a summary of a presentation by Dr. Peter Hammond on how to know there is a God. It argues that there is a God-shaped vacuum in humans that can only be filled by the eternal Creator. It provides examples from science like the complexity of the eye and astronomy that point to intelligent design. It also argues that rejecting God leaves life without meaning and exposes one to darkness of heart. The conclusion is that God reveals himself through creation and in Jesus Christ despite being rejected by some.
This is a study of the power of prevention that Jesus was into and also the Heavenly Father. Prevention was the main purpose of God in sending His Son into the world.
89169385 wilderness-mentality-joyce-meyerGin Burda
This document contains notes from a teaching by Joyce Meyer on July 25-28, 1996 in Modesto, California on overcoming a "wilderness mentality". She outlines 10 different wilderness mentalities that can keep people stuck in a wilderness instead of entering into the Promised Land. These include thinking one's future is based on the past, not taking responsibility, wanting everything to be easy, grumbling and complaining, not wanting to wait, jealousy and comparison, stubbornness and rebellion, blaming others, not feeling worthy of blessings, and pitying oneself. Meyer encourages developing the right mindset to progress from wilderness living to Promised Land living by trusting God and His timing.
A power point by Dr. John Beggs, professor at Indiana University for 2010 ICEC on his research in neuroscience and the philosophical and theological questions of the existence of the human soul.
This is a study of how Jesus avoided trouble that would lead to His death before His time. He would not go back to where they would kill Him. His timing had to be perfect.
Kedron Jones, a member of the ARS board, gave a lesson recently titled “Know How to Answer: Conversational Apologetics” The class was taught 10/18/14 at Los Angeles Church of Christ campus ministry. The notes and power point are attached.
God created all things out of nothing, including humans who were given a spiritual soul making them unique. Genesis describes God creating Adam and Eve without defect and in an intimate friendship with Him. However, they disobeyed God and fell from grace. The effects of original sin passed to all humanity, depriving them of sanctifying grace. Yet God promised a savior who would one day crush the serpent's head, giving hope of regaining what was lost through the Fall.
This is the 19th study in the “Growing Deep in the Gospel” series and is the third one dealing with defending the gospel. In this study we answered the question “why Believe in God?” by looking at five arguments that show why belief in God is the most reasonable conclusion. Those arguments included the cosmological, teleological, moral law, prophecy, and heart-wired.
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why Apologetics?Robin Schumacher
This document discusses the importance and purposes of Christian apologetics. It begins by defining apologetics as providing rational arguments and evidence for why Christianity is true. The main purposes are to 1) validate the truth of Christianity, 2) save unbelievers, 3) strengthen believers, and 4) refute errors. It emphasizes that, while apologetics can influence people, only God saves. The overall goal is to present Christianity as reasonable and guide people to the truth of God.
This document provides a summary of the course Anatomy and Physiology. It covers two units - Cell Biology (Unit I) and Physiology of Muscle Contraction (Unit II). Unit I discusses the structure and function of cells, genetics, tissues, organs and body systems. It also covers cellular processes like movement, respiration, responses, nutrition and aging. Unit II describes the structure of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles. It explains the mechanisms of contraction in these three muscle types, including excitation-contraction coupling. The document concludes with a discussion of oxygen debt during exercise.
Effect of light on reproduction and sleepSarah Tay
The document discusses the effect of light on reproduction and sleep in animals. It explains that melatonin secretion is suppressed by light, influencing seasonal reproduction and circadian rhythms. Photosensitive organs like the pineal gland and melanopsin cells detect light levels and regulate melatonin production. Long days stimulate reproduction by lowering melatonin, while short days have an inhibitory effect. Light also affects sleep cycles, with different wavelengths having varying impacts on resetting the body clock and suppressing melatonin. Animals have evolved adaptive changes like hibernation in response to seasonal fluctuations in photoperiod.
This document provides an overview of the human respiratory system. It discusses the key components of the respiratory system including the lungs, respiratory tract, respiratory muscles, and respiratory centers in the brain. It describes the mechanisms of inspiration and expiration, including how contraction of inspiratory muscles decreases intrathoracic pressure and draws air into the lungs. Compliance and surfactant are also discussed as they relate to lung elasticity and prevention of lung collapse during expiration.
The document discusses whether God cares about humanity. It addresses the concept of deism, which believes God created the universe but is not active in it. It also discusses challenges to the idea that God cares, like the problem of evil. However, it argues that Christianity provides answers to these challenges by teaching that God reconciled humanity through Jesus, gives life purpose, and promises an eternal destiny to those who believe. The document concludes that Christianity demonstrates God does care through His actions to overcome evil and save humanity.
Sin originated with Satan's rebellion and humanity's fall. Sin is any failure to obey God's moral law through actions, attitudes, or nature. All people are deeply infected by sin, separating them from God and subjecting them to a cursed existence characterized by a sinful nature and death.
God exists because he created humans with an innate desire and need for him. While many try to fill this "God-shaped vacuum" with other things, only God can satisfy it. Evidence of intelligent design in nature points to a Creator. Scientific discoveries about the immense size and intricate laws of the universe also suggest it was created by an omnipotent God.
This document discusses objections to the ideas of heaven and hell. It addresses 17 objections to the idea of heaven, rejecting arguments that reincarnation is more reasonable, that there is no scientific evidence for heaven, that heaven is wishful thinking, a myth or legend, escapist, a distraction, a bribe, egotistical, boring, inhumane, would remove free will, eliminate individuality, remove privacy, would not involve sex, and seems alien. It also briefly discusses hell, stating that denying hell implies the Bible and Jesus are liars and allows dropping doctrines solely due to discomfort.
The document provides an overview of several Old Testament wisdom books including Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and Jonah. It discusses how these books were influenced by other Near Eastern cultures and focused on themes like leading a virtuous life and dealing with the problem of evil and suffering. The books used different genres like poetry, stories, and satire to convey messages about trusting in God and his mercy extending to all people.
Residential Bible School: Apologetics & Basic BeliefsAlwyn Lau
The document discusses the basics of Christian apologetics and addresses common questions about God, Christianity, and Jesus. It covers topics like the existence of God based on design in the universe, the problem of evil, who Jesus claimed to be, evidence for the resurrection, and what happened on the cross. It also examines the temptations of Christ in the wilderness and common threads in how the devil distorts our identity, purpose, and means of finding meaning, peace, and protection.
This document discusses common misconceptions about bondage and the spiritual world. It asserts that true identity and meaning can only be found in Christ, as the effects of sin have marred humanity's quest for self-identity and purpose. Our deepest needs can only be met by God through Jesus, who restores our original spiritual life and transforms our inner being. As Christians, our new identity is defined by being in Christ rather than our actions.
This document discusses several religious and philosophical concepts:
1. It discusses Christian teachings about behaving in a way that sustains life and following God's laws to please Him.
2. It discusses Hindu and Buddhist teachings about achieving self-realization by destroying ignorance and uniting with God. Only a few can achieve this in each age.
3. It discusses the origins of different civilizations and religions, and how they represent different aspects of the Trinity - the Indus Valley civilization represents the Holy Ghost, Mesopotamia represents the Son, and Ancient Egypt represents the Creator.
Jesus showed mercy to a Canaanite woman who begged him to heal her demon-possessed daughter. At first, Jesus did not respond and his disciples urged him to send her away. He told her that he was sent only to Israel. However, the woman persisted in her request, humbly calling him "Lord." Jesus acknowledged her great faith and healed her daughter. He then healed many others who were brought to him. The document discusses how Jesus tested but ultimately rewarded the woman's faithful prayer through her difficulties, showing his mercy.
This document discusses healing in the biblical context. It begins by summarizing the story in Exodus where after being delivered from Egypt, the Israelites found bitter water in the wilderness and Moses healed it by throwing a log in it. God then revealed himself as Yahweh-Rophe, the Lord who heals. The document then discusses different aspects of healing in the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on healing meaning wholeness in body, mind and spirit. It provides suggestions for how to receive inner healing such as through faith, resting in God, holiness, forgiveness and giving. An example is given of John D. Rockefeller finding healing through changing his purpose to serving others.
This document is a summary of a presentation by Dr. Peter Hammond on how to know there is a God. It argues that there is a God-shaped vacuum in humans that can only be filled by the eternal Creator. It provides examples from science like the complexity of the eye and astronomy that point to intelligent design. It also argues that rejecting God leaves life without meaning and exposes one to darkness of heart. The conclusion is that God reveals himself through creation and in Jesus Christ despite being rejected by some.
This is a study of the power of prevention that Jesus was into and also the Heavenly Father. Prevention was the main purpose of God in sending His Son into the world.
89169385 wilderness-mentality-joyce-meyerGin Burda
This document contains notes from a teaching by Joyce Meyer on July 25-28, 1996 in Modesto, California on overcoming a "wilderness mentality". She outlines 10 different wilderness mentalities that can keep people stuck in a wilderness instead of entering into the Promised Land. These include thinking one's future is based on the past, not taking responsibility, wanting everything to be easy, grumbling and complaining, not wanting to wait, jealousy and comparison, stubbornness and rebellion, blaming others, not feeling worthy of blessings, and pitying oneself. Meyer encourages developing the right mindset to progress from wilderness living to Promised Land living by trusting God and His timing.
A power point by Dr. John Beggs, professor at Indiana University for 2010 ICEC on his research in neuroscience and the philosophical and theological questions of the existence of the human soul.
This is a study of how Jesus avoided trouble that would lead to His death before His time. He would not go back to where they would kill Him. His timing had to be perfect.
Kedron Jones, a member of the ARS board, gave a lesson recently titled “Know How to Answer: Conversational Apologetics” The class was taught 10/18/14 at Los Angeles Church of Christ campus ministry. The notes and power point are attached.
God created all things out of nothing, including humans who were given a spiritual soul making them unique. Genesis describes God creating Adam and Eve without defect and in an intimate friendship with Him. However, they disobeyed God and fell from grace. The effects of original sin passed to all humanity, depriving them of sanctifying grace. Yet God promised a savior who would one day crush the serpent's head, giving hope of regaining what was lost through the Fall.
This is the 19th study in the “Growing Deep in the Gospel” series and is the third one dealing with defending the gospel. In this study we answered the question “why Believe in God?” by looking at five arguments that show why belief in God is the most reasonable conclusion. Those arguments included the cosmological, teleological, moral law, prophecy, and heart-wired.
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why Apologetics?Robin Schumacher
This document discusses the importance and purposes of Christian apologetics. It begins by defining apologetics as providing rational arguments and evidence for why Christianity is true. The main purposes are to 1) validate the truth of Christianity, 2) save unbelievers, 3) strengthen believers, and 4) refute errors. It emphasizes that, while apologetics can influence people, only God saves. The overall goal is to present Christianity as reasonable and guide people to the truth of God.
This document provides a summary of the course Anatomy and Physiology. It covers two units - Cell Biology (Unit I) and Physiology of Muscle Contraction (Unit II). Unit I discusses the structure and function of cells, genetics, tissues, organs and body systems. It also covers cellular processes like movement, respiration, responses, nutrition and aging. Unit II describes the structure of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles. It explains the mechanisms of contraction in these three muscle types, including excitation-contraction coupling. The document concludes with a discussion of oxygen debt during exercise.
Effect of light on reproduction and sleepSarah Tay
The document discusses the effect of light on reproduction and sleep in animals. It explains that melatonin secretion is suppressed by light, influencing seasonal reproduction and circadian rhythms. Photosensitive organs like the pineal gland and melanopsin cells detect light levels and regulate melatonin production. Long days stimulate reproduction by lowering melatonin, while short days have an inhibitory effect. Light also affects sleep cycles, with different wavelengths having varying impacts on resetting the body clock and suppressing melatonin. Animals have evolved adaptive changes like hibernation in response to seasonal fluctuations in photoperiod.
This document provides an overview of the human respiratory system. It discusses the key components of the respiratory system including the lungs, respiratory tract, respiratory muscles, and respiratory centers in the brain. It describes the mechanisms of inspiration and expiration, including how contraction of inspiratory muscles decreases intrathoracic pressure and draws air into the lungs. Compliance and surfactant are also discussed as they relate to lung elasticity and prevention of lung collapse during expiration.
This document provides information about purchasing a 3Com 5998014246917 Network Adapter from Launch 3 Telecom. It lists the product details and provides contact information for purchasing. Launch 3 Telecom has been in business since 2003 serving telecom and networking customers with competitive pricing and quality service. They accept various payment methods and offer same day shipping for orders placed before 3PM. A warranty and return policy is included with all purchases. Additional services like repairs, maintenance contracts, and de-installation are also offered.
This document provides information about purchasing a 3Com 3CCFE575BT-1 10/100 LAN CardBus PC card from Launch 3 Telecom. It details payment and shipping options, and notes that the product comes with a warranty. It also describes additional services provided by Launch 3 Telecom such as repairs, maintenance contracts, de-installation, and telecom equipment recycling.
This document provides information about purchasing a 3Com 3C0VG60005-06 redundant power supply module from Launch 3 Telecom. It includes the product details, payment and shipping options, warranty information, and an overview of additional services provided by Launch 3 Telecom such as repairs, maintenance contracts, and equipment de-installation. Customers can purchase the product by phone, email, or by clicking a link to send a request for quote.
This document provides information about the 3Com 3AEK1565 PCB, Ethernet component. It describes Launch 3 Telecom as a supplier of this part and other telecom equipment. It outlines how to purchase the 3AEK1565, including payment options and same-day shipping. A warranty and customer service information is also included. Additional services from Launch 3 Telecom like repairs, de-installation and asset recovery are listed.
This document provides information about purchasing a 3Com NB II DPS dual power supply from Launch 3 Telecom. It describes payment and shipping options, same-day shipping availability, warranty and return policies, and additional services offered like repairs. Launch 3 Telecom is an experienced telecom equipment supplier and service provider.
This joyful strain of Christian hope is
based upon two all-important truths concern-
ing the human soul. In the first place, it as-
sumes that man is very high in the scale of
being ; and, in the second place, that he is en-
trusted with the great responsibility of deter-
mining his own character, and of securing the
blessings of existence by rightly adjusting
himself to the conditions of life in which an
all- wise Creator has placed him.
This is a collection of writings dealing with the Holy Spirit filling John the Baptist even before he was born. He became one of the greatest men in history.
1. THE MAJESTY OF MAN Based on Psa. 8
2. WE ARE BORN TO RULE Based on Psa. 8:1-9
3. SANCTIFIED SILENCE Based on Psa. 46:1-11
4. SAINTS IN THE COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT Based on Psa. 77
5. THE PLEASURE OF POSITIVE THINKING Based on Psa. 84
6. THE PLEASURE OF PASSION Based on Psa. 84
7. THE PLEASURE OF PERFECTION Based on Psa. 84
8. THE PLEASURE OF POWER Based on Psa. 84
9. THE PLEASURE OF PROGRESS Based on Psa. 84
10. REVIVAL Based on Psa. 85:6
11. A NEW SONG Based on Psalm 96
12. THIS IS THE DAY Based on Psa. 118:6-14
13. TURN ON THE LIGHT BASED ON Psa. 110:105
14. A MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE Based on Psalm 125
15. WHAT IS SIN? Based on Psa. 51:1-2
16. CONFESSION OF SIN Based on Psa. 51:
Our son, David Fox spoke passionately today on why the theory of evolution is a bad idea scientifically and morally--- a grand slam of information, revelation and inspiration The law of "Supernatural Selection" was obviously at work in the results! We all loved it. I vote it "Best in Series" of five message this month on this topic. God willing, we will help start a movement to get the much better theory of Intelligent Design into local schools taught along side the now-largely debunked theory of evolution. Hopefully, this will protect many students from the very false scientific persuasion that science has proven there is no evidence for a creator. THERE IS!!!
This document summarizes different levels of consciousness according to Paramahansa Yogananda:
- Cosmic consciousness is the highest level, the consciousness of God beyond creation.
- Christ consciousness is when cosmic consciousness enters matter and living beings.
- Super consciousness or soul consciousness is when Christ consciousness enters the human soul and mind.
- Human or waking consciousness operates in the physical realm through senses and mind.
- Subconscious operates in the realm of imagination below waking consciousness.
- Worldly consciousness and evil consciousness occur when the mind is too attached to material things or causes harm.
This document presents a call for unity among believers of different faiths against threats to religious values. It argues that Muslims, Christians and Jews share common beliefs and should work together against ideologies like Darwinism and radicalism. The document outlines areas of shared belief and emphasizes the importance of cooperation over past disputes. It asserts that united, people of faith can counter dangerous indoctrination and build a moral society of peace, security and well-being.
Augustine of Hippo proposed a theodicy to address the problem of evil. He argued that (1) evil came about as a result of free will when Lucifer and angels rebelled against God and (2) when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit. Augustine saw the world as originally good but evil entered through the misuse of free will. He believed evil was a privation or lack of goodness rather than a substance. Natural evil resulted from humans upsetting the order of the universe. Later critics argued that Augustine's view did not align with modern theories of evolution and the nature of evil.
This is a study of Jesus being knowledgeable about farming. He used farming and farmers in His parables for it fit His time and culture for illustrating His truths.
Jesus was the source of the fruit of righteousnessGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being the source of the fruit of righteousness. He fills the believer with this fruit and it leads to the glory and praise of God the Father.
This is study of laughter as the best medicine. Many scientific studies support this old saying making it clear that laughter aids us in dealing with all the problems of life.
This document is an introduction to Wallace Wattles' book "The Science of Being Great". It provides a table of contents for the book which explores how any person can become great through developing their inherent power and principles. The introduction provides background on Wallace Wattles and how he applies universal principles to achieving greatness, as he did with wealth and health in previous works. It sets up that the book will teach how to make the most of one's life by developing their full potential.
This is a study of Jesus being thankful. He is revealed to be giving thanks on 7 occasions. and these reveal what He was thankful for, but He spent much time in prayer and was certainly thanking His heavenly Father for everything.
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3. It also explores perspectives on miracles, the reality of death, and whether Adam and Eve's actions truly constituted a "Fall" or a failure to reach an intended goal.
This prayer by Sir Francis Drake asks God to disturb us in three ways:
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2) When we have lost our thirst for spiritual fulfillment in favor of material abundance.
3) To push us to boldly venture further and see God's power and glory in losing sight of land and finding inspiration in the stars. The prayer asks God to expand our hopes and strengthen our faith, courage, and love.
God created the universe and everything in it, including humanity. However, Satan deceived Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, causing the first sin and introducing death, suffering, and separation from God. As a result, humanity is born with a sinful nature and unable to fulfill God's purpose without divine intervention. The document aims to explain why belief in God and Jesus Christ is necessary from a Christian perspective.
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This summary provides the key points about the physiology of the integumentary system from the lecture notes:
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This document summarizes a study on water contamination in Nigeria and its effects on human health. It finds that over time, human activities like oil spills, sewage leaks, and waste disposal have contaminated water sources in Nigeria. This poses health risks as contaminated water can cause digestive issues, impact the immune system, and increase oxidative stress in the body. The document examines the sources and extent of water contamination across Nigeria and the physiological coping mechanisms the body employs in response, such as increased antioxidant enzyme production, though these may not fully protect against health effects of long-term exposure to contaminated water.
This document summarizes a study on water contamination in Nigeria and its effects on human health. It finds that both natural and human activities have led to water contamination through pollution, affecting over 27% of Nigerians who lack access to clean water. Water contamination can cause issues with digestive, nervous, blood, kidney, liver and immune systems. However, the human body has some defense mechanisms against contaminated water exposure, including increased antioxidant enzymes and changes in white blood cell counts. Nonetheless, these coping strategies may not be sufficient to fully defend the body against health issues from contaminated water.
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This document provides an overview of the human respiratory system. It discusses the key components of the respiratory system including the lungs, respiratory tract, respiratory muscles, and respiratory centers in the brain. It describes the mechanisms of inspiration and expiration, including how contraction of inspiratory muscles decreases intrathoracic pressure and draws air into the lungs. Compliance and surfactant are also discussed as factors that influence lung elasticity and prevent collapse during expiration.
This document provides an overview of the human respiratory system. It discusses the key components of the respiratory system including the lungs, respiratory tract, respiratory muscles, and respiratory centers in the brain. It describes the mechanisms of inspiration and expiration, including how contraction of inspiratory muscles decreases intrathoracic pressure and draws air into the lungs. Compliance and surfactant are also discussed as they relate to lung elasticity and prevention of lung collapse during expiration.
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Heartfulness Magazine - June 2024 (Volume 9, Issue 6)heartfulness
Dear readers,
This month we continue with more inspiring talks from the Global Spirituality Mahotsav that was held from March 14 to 17, 2024, at Kanha Shanti Vanam.
We hear from Daaji on lifestyle and yoga in honor of International Day of Yoga, June 21, 2024. We also hear from Professor Bhavani Rao, Dean at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, on spirituality in action, the Venerable BhikkuSanghasena on how to be an ambassador for compassion, Dr. Tony Nader on the Maharishi Effect, Swami Mukundananda on the crossroads of modernization, Tejinder Kaur Basra on the purpose of work, the Venerable GesheDorjiDamdul on the psychology of peace, the Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland, KC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, on how we are all related, and world-renowned violinist KumareshRajagopalan on the uplifting mysteries of music.
Dr. Prasad Veluthanar shares an Ayurvedic perspective on treating autism, Dr. IchakAdizes helps us navigate disagreements at work, Sravan Banda celebrates World Environment Day by sharing some tips on land restoration, and Sara Bubber tells our children another inspiring story and challenges them with some fun facts and riddles.
Happy reading,
The editors
The Book of Samuel is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books in the Old Testament. The book is part of the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books that constitute a theological history of the Israelites and that aim to explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.
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Shining brightly in the sky, some days more than others, the Moon in popular culture is a symbol of love, romance, and beauty. The ancient Hindu texts, however, mention the Moon as an intriguing and powerful being, worshiped by sages as Chandra.
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Lucid Dreaming: Understanding the Risks and Benefits
The ability to control one's dreams or for the dreamer to be aware that he or she is dreaming. This process, called lucid dreaming, has some potential risks as well as many fascinating benefits. However, many people are hesitant to try it initially for fear of the potential dangers. This article aims to clarify these concerns by exploring both the risks and benefits of lucid dreaming.
The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming allows a person to take control of their dream world, helping them overcome their fears and eliminate nightmares. This technique is particularly useful for mental health. By taking control of their dreams, individuals can face challenging scenarios in a controlled environment, which can help reduce anxiety and increase self-confidence.
Addressing Common Concerns
Physical Harm in Dreams Lucid dreaming is fundamentally safe. In a lucid dream, everything is a creation of your mind. Therefore, nothing in the dream can physically harm you. Despite the vividness and realness of the dream experience, it remains entirely within your mental landscape, posing no physical danger.
Mental Health Risks Concerns about developing PTSD or other mental illnesses from lucid dreaming are unfounded. As soon as you wake up, it's clear that the events experienced in the dream were not real. On the contrary, lucid dreaming is often seen as a therapeutic tool for conditions like PTSD, as it allows individuals to reframe and manage their thoughts.
Potential Risks of Lucid Dreaming
While generally safe, lucid dreaming does come with a few risks as well:
Mixing Dream Memories with Reality Long-term lucid dreamers might occasionally confuse dream memories with real ones, creating false memories. This issue is rare and preventable by maintaining a dream journal and avoiding lucid dreaming about real-life people or places too frequently.
Escapism Using lucid dreaming to escape reality can be problematic if it interferes with your daily life. While it is sometimes beneficial to escape and relieve the stress of reality, relying on lucid dreaming for happiness can hinder personal growth and productivity.
Feeling Tired After Lucid Dreaming Some people report feeling tired after lucid dreaming. This tiredness is not due to the dreams themselves but often results from not getting enough sleep or using techniques that disrupt sleep patterns. Taking breaks and ensuring adequate sleep can prevent this.
Mental Exhaustion Lucid dreaming can be mentally taxing if practiced excessively without breaks. It’s important to balance lucid dreaming with regular sleep to avoid mental fatigue.
Lucid dreaming is safe and beneficial if done with caution. It has many benefits, such as overcoming fear and improving mental health, and minimal risks. There are many resources and tutorials available for those interested in trying it.
Astronism, Cosmism and Cosmodeism: the space religions espousing the doctrine...Cometan
This lecture created by Brandon Taylorian (aka Cometan) specially for the CESNUR Conference held Bordeaux in June 2024 provides a brief introduction to the legacy of religious and philosophical thought that Astronism emerges from, namely the discourse on transcension started assuredly by the Cosmists in Russia in the mid-to-late nineteenth century and then carried on and developed by Mordecai Nessyahu in Cosmodeism in the twentieth century. Cometan also then provides some detail on his story in founding Astronism in the early twenty-first century from 2013 along with details on the central Astronist doctrine of transcension. Finally, the lecture concludes with some contributions made by space religions and space philosophy and their influences on various cultural facets in art, literature and film.
Trusting God's Providence | Verse: Romans 8: 28-31JL de Belen
Trusting God's Providence.
Providence - God’s active preservation and care over His creation. God is both the Creator and the Sustainer of all things Heb. 1:2-3; Col. 1:17
-God keep His promises.
-God’s general providence is toward all creation
- All things were made through Him
God’s special providence is toward His children.
We may suffer now, but joy can and will come
God can see what we cannot see
1. ADAM AND THE WHIRLING WIND
WRITTEN
BY
ADENIYI MAYOWA JEREMIAH
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2. PART ONE: ADAM, A SIMPLE MAN
Ordinarily, trees do not bend except when there is a
compelling need for it to comply with the dictate of natural
events such as fierce wind. There is always an innate
tendency for every object to remain in its crude form.
Isaac Newton, a renowned scientist states ‘A body will
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3. remain in its present state of rest or if it is in motion will
continue to move with a uniform speed on a straight
except if there is hindrance’ This unveils the simple and
nascent status of things in the absence of external
influence.
A simple man describes a God-made man. A man
made in a simple, easy and unsophisticated form. What a
true nature of man! A simple man was a man in his
greatest possible natural form with moral instincts. Being
an image of God, he exhibited all features of greatness
over other creatures, billion of which have huge
advantages.
A simple man was pure-hearted because he was a
replica of his maker, the holy God. His heart dispensed
blessing .Every word that came out of his mouth was full
of power and effect. Every thought formed by his heart
was undoubtedly for the glory of his maker. His nature did
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4. not allow sickness because there was complete absence
of gene that could code for it. All the genes were naturally
made to code for sound health.
Moreover, the relationship between his pure heart
and organ of sight was so strong that what the heart saw
was not misinterpreted .Even, anytime his heart observed
odd things, his heart would not translate them to evil .All
inputs into his heart were all good ,so did the outputs from
the heart.
Man enjoyed to the fullness. He was served his
requirement based on his self-specification. In fact, A
simple man needed not salivate before bolus of food
would get to his tongue. There was nothing like food
rationing as he would eat till he was filled. Stomach filling
would not cause him to vomit because there was a proper
coordination between feeding centre of his brain and
sensation of hunger.
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5. Furthermore, despite all these, he was not obese
because he was placed on special diet devoid of
cholesterol by the greatest of all dietician. Due to the
impossibility of food to contain cholesterol, hypertension
found it very difficult to champion simple man. Diseases
such as cancers, heart diseases, kidney and liver
dysfunction found it uneasy to thrive in the live of a simple
man. Even ,glucose –rich foods he took only made him to
be bouncy and not a sufferer of diabetes mellitus.
Man was the greatest and most powerful biotic
component of the ecosystem that would ever be produced
.He ruled over all other important components of his
environment .He was diligent and consistent in his bid to
turn all stones. Man gave all creatures their different
names, besides, he was able to recite their names
perfectly without stammering or racking his brain. He had
a unique dictatorial and authoritative traits which made
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6. him to be feared by other most dreaded creatures.
Without refusal, he controlled all abiotic component of the
ecosystem through this inbuilt authority.
Inside the heart of man found no trace of artifact,
implying that it was natural. The vehicle of his heart
tolerated no plague. All they did was to conduct living
blood. The blood of simple man never gave room for
malaria, HIV, hepatitis or any infection because it was part
of pure blemish-free natural heart of a God-made man.
God-made man was made to be a seed that would
yield fruits. The vastness of human kind on earth planet
and the diversity of human kingdoms were good
examples. God never made a dead-end human species (a
sterile creature) but creatures which are proliferative. In
effect of this, God deposited in man a woman who bore
reproductive compatibility trait with man.
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7. God-made man was a man of long span. The ultimate
essence of God’s creation of man is to have man praise
Him forever without any break or season because God
cherishes praise. He loves to be adorned. He loves to be
revered and eulogized most especially by man .He loves
to be dignified in view of His surpassing greatness,
insurmountable power , unquestionable authority and
inexhaustible mercy.
A simple man was a man born anew in an unrefined
form like a newly born baby .God-made man had no cloth
to cover himself because there was no need for it.
Despite the absence of coverings, he never felt naked
because he was covered by a divine cloth and protected
by supernatural roof. Neither would he fell shy on account
of his clothlessness .
A simple man was built to resist evil, architectured to
tolerate whirling winds and designed to control emerging
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8. diversity of unforeseen circumstances. There was on fore
head of man emblem of honor and cross of victory. This
explained why he recorded prosperity in all that he laid his
hands upon. A simple man was so great that he was a
solution to life problem and a victory to challenges
A simple man was a perfect man being a perfect
copy of Almighty God. Beyond reasonable doubt, he was
right and perfect in all that he did .Moreover; he was like a
god, put simply, a representative of God on earth. Man
was a perfect instance of equity, justice, fairness,
accountability and honesty.
A simple man had a great neuro-cognitive and
intelligent quotient couple with his uncountable physical
tendencies. One of such is natural ability to relate with
other creatures, ability to see and interpret correctly
without illusion and ability to interpret the time of the day.
All these were the inbuilt attributes of Adam, the first man
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9. PART TWO: THE WHIRLING WIND
Man abode in the arms of his Maker. He derived
more than satisfaction from his creation. Out of
abundance, he lived and was never found wanting of any
material.
Just like what obtains after hitting the greatest
height, man sought something else beyond satisfaction.
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10. The vast array of foods available in his compound did not
content him any longer. The natural propensity of wisdom
which was endowed on him was deemed extinct and he
wanted an upgraded wisdom, I wonder which other
wisdom could outsmart that from above? May be due to
the fact that the limit of earthly wisdom was not disclosed
to him, he was unable to appreciate the most outstanding
inbuilt wisdom. Man thought earthly wisdom could go
much way bettering his lot but he hardly recognized that
the more the earthly wisdom availed, the greater would be
the prize which always was in form of shortage, loss,
death, sickness and crisis.
Man thought there could be a more supernatural
heart outside the pure heart offered by his maker. He
sought for a more extraordinary heart but ended up
finding an impotent heart; an heart that could not
discern ;an heart that harbored diseases; an heart that
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11. was rich in genes that coded for every sort of infirmity of
this world, an heart that could not coordinate the whole
body; an heart that disagreed with sense of vision ;an
heart that encouraged prostitution; an heart that pumped
a plague-filled blood ;an heart where there could never
be peace, a faulty canal mind
Man who had been a subject of honor reduced to a
hopeless gold digger .No other story could be as
disastrously interesting as that of a king celebrated by his
citizens who turned inexplicably to an abject slave. Man
who had been ruling his ecosystem had to rotate
leadership with other creatures like lion. Man that had
been respected by beasts now had to dread the beasts he
gave names. This is terrible but no thanks to whirling
wind.
When a whirling wind blows, changes begin to
happen; new things assume office and strange events
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12. become obvious. A whirling wind is like earthquake,
tornadoes ,tsunami and hurricane which bout without pre-
sensitization. Whirling wind greatly differs in its depiction
as it refuses to share common terms with challenges
which can easily be forecast using physical means.
Whirling wind is a simple metaphor of devil, a
trickster who twisted man’s heart, an event that invoked a
gap between man and God, his maker, resulting into
man’s total sanction.
God did not only make man but also provided life-
enhancing materials and fence for him. Inside Eden’s
garden, there were all sorts of food that were good for
human life except one which would not add to man’s joy,’
the fruit of life’.
God instructed man never to consider the option of
admiring it let alone of eating this anti-man fruit. Awhile
after receiving the devil, an august visitor, Man fell in love
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13. with august persuasion of his visitor without observing
any moment of rumination. He seemed to have forgotten
completely facts surrounding his creation and the most
important instruction of his maker.
Man simply betrayed God through disobedience and
disloyalty. God had expected nothing from man but
complete obedience; that was why he never hesitated to
give him nutritional prescriptions. The sense of obedience
God built in man’s heart was God’s consolation for leaving
man alone in the garden, but instead of man to observe
caution dictated by his heart, he followed the suggestions
of his visitor.
What affective tool predisposed man to fall in love
with anti-God option?
Words are powerful tools used in conversation (exchange
of views and words). They are commands which direct,
prescribe, regulate and achieve an action. In fact, there
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14. was nothing created that escaped touch of a word
including the world yet to be unveiled.
Conversation between man and his visitor ushered
him out of the garden of peace which was designed for
him. The pure heart of man was designed to accept
instruction of Almighty God and work with it but he
disregarded the cautions of his heart; after all there was
no way a foundation with cracks and breaks could bear
the weight of a building.
There are stages devised by devil in making a
success in turning man against his creator. The first stage
is called the INITIATION stage. This stage centers on
introduction and requires initiation traits. The devil was
highly skilled and gifted with initiation traits (characters
which attract attentions and pave way for dominance).
Initiation traits slackened the thread that tied chamber of
man’s heart , offered opportunities for prosperity of sickly
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15. genes and the beauty of his innate wisdom started to fade
away. In every part where he had been strong, he began
to weaken.
The devil, man’s visitor who also doubled as his
hater exploited a simple opportunity to do an irreparable
initiation scourge to man through his initiation trait. The
outcome of this was that natural wisdom which had been
naturally built to resist his visitor started to accommodate
the earthly stuffs.
Moreover, man’s heart began to fatigue. The next
stage after initiation stage is a stage of Persuasion. It
involves enticement and the use of material things to
entice man. Many things including those which regards
environment were used to persuade him. Persuasion
involves poisoning of mind against a form of idea and the
use of controlling factors to cause a compromise.
Persuasion also involves design of defense mechanism
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16. and the subsequent use of the designed scourging
defense mechanism to induce another. For example, lies
told to man by his hater went another mile instigating a
sense of denial of fundamental instructions.
After man’s creation, he was endeared in a garden
more beautiful than the beautiful citadel of the world. In
fact, the size of the garden was unquantifiable and the
height was beyond human imagination. Although, the
place was called garden, however ,that never implied it
was a caged piece of land where creatures abound.
Instead, it was a garden containing palaces of God,
buildings of different architectural works. It was called
garden of peace because there was no acrimony; no
crisis, suffering, scarcity, austerity, crime and there was a
proper systems coordination. If devil had devised an
earthly citadel to deceive man, it would not have been as
beautiful as the garden. Owing to man’s disobedience to
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17. God, the sense of judgment of man was completely
inactivated and hence failed in both tendencies to discern
spirit and judge accurately.
The outcome of this was that man was further
endeared by his visitor and again, he distanced farther
from his maker. As the distance increased, his heart
suffered more destruction. Man’s hater was greatly
impressed by the ceaseless regression of his client. This
paved the way to the third stage called stage of
conviction. The third stage has within its scope
extremism. Man graduated to a fanatic of wrong idea,
impression and values.
In view of his hard-heart and stiff-neckedness, he
was in a mood to do anything demanded from him by the
devil. He was deeply stimulated by the selections of big
lies. The outcome of the third stage was that man turned
completely against his maker. Man began to turn his hater
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18. to God and his maker to enemy. Man’s imagination
changed condescendingly and was invariably replaced by
illusive passion. His heart began to meditate on all the
promises of his hater without any actual sense of rethink.
Following third stage is a stage of acceptance, the
fourth stage .It is a stage where man formally accepted
his hater as hero. He accepted his hater’s tendency to
avail all things beyond what his maker could afford. Man
turned away from the plan of the most high and climb a
ladder of the most low. Worst of it was that man ate the
fruit of life which he was rightly warned against. The worst
of man’s deed was the hallmark of the greatest
achievement of his visitor. Had it been man had only
attempted to eat the fruit of life, perhaps, he might have
saved himself a fall and it might have been better for him.
Rather than attempting it, man tasted, ate and swallowed
the forbidden fruit. Man failed to realize it was forbidding
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19. eating a forbidden fruit. Man defied God’s instruction
perhaps to test God’s countenance or reaction as the
case may be.
The last stage, fifth stage unveiled God’s reaction.
As a matter of fact, God who instructed man not to eat the
fruit of life knew the level of toxicity and lethal dose of the
food. God knew the food was not good for human pure
heart for which reason he barred him from taking the fruit.
Following man’s consumption of the fruit, he experienced
transformation. First, man’s heart turned canal and hence
became predisposed to wreckage.
Owing to the replacement of man’s pure heart with a
faulty canal mind, man began to understand himself up to
a point he learnt he was naked. Then he felt ashamed and
inferior. These eventually culminated into a broad body of
human problems which transcended human
comprehension then and now. Every problem of man
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20. today has a lineal link with a bolt of mistake that was
commitment some time ago by the first man in the garden.
However, problems were never designed by God for any
reason in heaven or on earth but by man’s hater. The last
stage shows how God decreed curses on man and his
produce. He was cut off from grace, he was disengaged
from pleasure and the gate of the beautiful garden was
shut against him. Despite all these, man was not
completely denied of wisdom and natural God-made
reliefs were not shut down for reason of man’s
disobedience.
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21. PART THREE: TRANSFORMATION OF
MAN
It was not a rumor that man disobeyed his creator
and subscribed to his haters, it was consequent to this
that he was fired. Normally, what he could handle easily
with success agglomerated to disgrace courtesy of his
action.
After man took the fruit of life, there was complete
modification of man. The modification process involved
replacement of a highly potent natural pure heart with a
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22. weak error-loving canal mind. Human mind consisted of
imaginations, ideals and other features. Of the output
from human mind, more than three-quarters were evil.
This had to be so because human mind had now been
modified to be of earthly origin. The breath meant to
nourish and nurture it had quenched. It became so bad for
man that he lost his sense of vision. And man never
realized again where he cradled from and what might be
his end. Because man had a senile sense of vision, no
longer was he able to plan for his future, and in view of
this failure, he was unable to feature successful in his
future.
Besides, God’s ultimate goal for man was that he’d
be exceptional and to come all these to fruition, he sowed
a seed of sound mind in him such that, he might dispense
a sound thought. The case turned the other way the
moment man disobeyed God. The outcome of this was
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23. quite apparent in man deeds; Averagely in a day,
thousands of thoughts run through his mind, the good
ideas and bad ones , despite the enormity of the good
ideas that presented before man, man would rather shun
the good ideas and turn on the bad ones. All because the
mind of man was no longer sound.
The seed of progress in man transformed to seed of
regression in the face of mans blatant rebellion. Man who
had been promised immorality began to count his days on
the surface of the earth. Man who could have been a great
counter, discerner and a maker turned to rely on earthly
calendar. Man who was born to be good interpreter of
season regressed abruptly. Neither was he able to control
directly the abiotic components of his environment
because the ability had regressed. Gone were those days
when man in the skin of his maker would order the rain to
form on the sky and fall. All these had now become past
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24. achievement, and evidence of God’s love to simple man in
the genesis of his existence.
Moreover, man could no longer stand the purity of
God in the holy garden of life and therefore had to be
excused from the world to a world described to be full of
perversions, worries, lack, cheating and starvation. The
transition of man from holy garden of life to a crisis-filled
world was the basis of the reason for man’s struggling for
life existence in the name of meeting his insatiable
demand.
Usually, man used to derive remarkably a terrific
level of satisfaction in everything he chose to do while in
the garden of life. There was a complete structural and
inexplicable functional change in this sense of
contentment. It thus appeared as if nothing else on earth
could ever satisfy him. The little and transient benefits
bestowed on him by his hater could not support man’s
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25. mind and hence it was really hard for him achieving his
desired goal .
Man’s demands on earth kept on rising despite the
difficulty in achieving even a small quantum of them. First,
man had to toil like elephant before he could derive a
bolus of food. This was the manifestation of the
punishment imposed on him sequel to his disobedience.
Man had to run from pillar to pole searching for an item
that had not lost. Worst of it in this regard was the change
in man’s personality from man of dominion to a man of
defeat. A man of authority changed to a sissy. A man of
discretion turned to a gratuitous being. Then man in this
weakness began to resolve within himself that it was
normal for him to struggle before he could achieve it. The
implication of this change in mentality had been so
apparent in the lifestyle of everybody today. Human
beings just could not do without running through posts for
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26. assets that have already been established even when the
need refuses to arise.
On the spiritual angle, this day, human beings are
fond of looking for God in devil’s abode. I wonder if
anything relates light with darkness. People call the name
of God in the skin of devil. Pastors exploit the name of God
the same way automated card is used in automated
machine for money withdrawal. The name of God has
been ubiquitously accessed for self enrichment.
Preaching in churches today is awkward. Modern pastors
and their soured old counterparts have created a balance
between God holiness and love of money as a way of
preventing exit of people from their church and for the
purpose of self enrichment.
The evolution of man into a greedy and unstable
nature frustrated man’s purpose on earth and turned him
to a hopeless wanderer. Man did not realize his primary
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27. assignment on land anymore. All what man bothered
himself about was how his insatiable demand would be
met through his hard work. Man hardly understood how
impossible it was for two wrongs to make a right. Man
could not be struggling amiss under the territory of his
hater and expect precious blessing of God.
Man dragged himself into several unwholesome acts
of this recent world. In his bid to satisfy himself, he took to
thievery and other theft acts. Man stole money, assets and
life of his colleague to attain satisfaction which was even
short-lived. All these unwholesome deeds did nothing in
alleviating man’s problem.
In the world today, there is widespread of
corruption. Man committed the most immoral act. Man
killed his client to raise money all in the name of
satisfaction. Global financial meltdown that rocked the
world today could be connected with deliberate or
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28. careless attitude courtesy of corruption. Corruption was
the tool man devised to arrest dissatisfaction. Corruption
defined as dishonesty and unfairness is of two types. Type
1 corruption is a white corruption. In white corruption,
there is no physical stealing, neither is there killing nor
bloodshed. It is just all about refined corrupt practices
and . Type 2 consists of killing, stealing, instinctual greed,
forgery and faking.
Forgery and faking are very important agent of
corruption in this modern people. People forge certificate,
pretend to be what they are not and present an
adulterated material as if it were genuine.
Greed as an agent of corruption led human to
untimely death. Today the average lifespan of people is
less than or equal to seventy-five years and it has been
shown to be decreasing.
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29. The aim of wind that blows around a tree could be in
two forms. First, cause a twisting movement and then to
hurt it. The primary goal of man’s haters is to cause a tide
that will provide joy for a short period of time for men and
to harvest them untimely. The materials supplied by man’s
hater to man as relief are far from beneficial to man.
Man designed objects, assets and instruments to
ease his activities. The instruments which he designed
would knock down all of a sudden and man would die.
Artificial reliefs given by man’s hater to man caused a
snow that thrashed man, unlike the natural atmosphere
man’s maker made for man which caused rain of relief to
fall and give rise to growth of man in the garden of life.
Owing to man disobedience, he was cursed with
unfruitfulness. The implication of the curse appeared
during labor. Man would have to cry, scream and
experience pain before he could produce his replica. Man
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30. who was supposed to deliver happily now had to undergo
the reverse situation during reproduction.
Furthermore, man found being righteous really hard
to achieve and on the other hand, found evils a die-hard.
Man would rather prefer to practice wicked acts even in
church . Despite the number of churches in the world, it
was still very painful that atrocity kept on increasing. Even
the so-called developed nations are no different. Although
they may be proud of modern discipline due to their high
extent of financial and physical development, they still
have strains because they are also product of Adam, the
first man.
The whirling winds that blew simple man to a man of
carnal mind occurred as a result of occlusion of the sense
of vision of man and result into his downfall. The downfall
of man was so awkward that man became an inevitable
friend of his hater and hater of his maker. As hard it
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31. seems for a nut kept in glass bottle to be devoured by hen,
man had covenanted a strong pact with his hater, thereby
making it was so tedious for him to ouster himself. Man’s
disengagement from the snare of destruction is a great
task that requires superfluous grace. The job would
involve another change in mentality and replacement of
the impotent worldly heart with the initial heart, the
natural heart which disappeared the moment man
disobeyed his maker.
Transformation of man led man into disgrace and
horrors. Just as flies rally around the comb of honey,
disgrace follows man everywhere he goes. Moreover,
transformation of man gave man’s hater a strong
assurance that man’s end will be his in hell at last. Then in
the end, at last both of them would perish in the
unquenchable fire-the heavily hell.
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32. PART FOUR: THE HELL
The remuneration following hard work beautifies
human activities. if the return for land has not been rent,
what else would appreciate its productivity? The ultimate
beauty of man had one time been to have immortal
dominion in his places. Afterwards, he jeopardized this
opportunity and had to exhibit a kind of life that had an
end, a restriction and a limit.
The limit of man’s existence extends from inception
to an age when his fragile systems could no longer sustain
him . From human inception, man has to undergo hell,
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33. likewise his demise is nothing but under the content of
hell. Hell describes condition of great or suffering or
misery. Condition of great suffering or misery occurs in
heaven and on earth. Home of suffering in heaven is
called heavenly hell while the sufferings that certain
people can’t do without tasting every second here on
earth is earthly hell.
The idea of man ending in both hells was the
manifestation of the plans of man’s hater. On a light mood,
no killer will ever plan to spare but to wreck. The seed
sowed in man by his hater is that he would end up in both
hells. While on earth he would beg for bread, and there in
heaven, he would gnash his teeth in oven. Man’s maker
built man for earth and the earth for man. But man’s
disobedience turned the whole earth against him resulting
into earth becoming a hell. It was only heavenly hell God
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34. made for man’s hater who was proud to God in the first
place.
The nature of heavenly hell cannot be illustrated with
any earthly condition implying that in terms of intensity of
agony, this type of hell was meant for destruction. There
is no room for restitution in this hell. Earthly hell on the
contrary permits restitution. The experiences created by
the two types of hell are quite bad because both are
characterized by regret, agony, suffering and other bad
conditions.
Earthly hell refers to hell on earth. This was
targeted at elongating the span of man’s difficulty for a
longer while. Man’s hater turned rain to snow, sun to fire
and wind to hurricane.
Furthermore, man’s hater designed artificial factors
which were strange to man, all built up earthly hell.
Artificial intelligence is very common these days which
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35. uses power of man’s hater to perform magic. With this
intelligence, man designed materials and objects which
claim man’s life untimely. These materials in the skin of
comfort cause a lot of sorrow to man both expressively
and insidiously. With artificial intelligence, man constructs
an ecosystem and destroys the ecosystem. The man made
by man’s maker was built to produce his replica: A man of
good thoughts so should it be. Due to man’s
disobedience, all these could not repeat in man’s anymore
simply because man exchanged his good thought
immediately he accepted to follow his enemy. In view of
this, man had no natural intelligence again. The artificial
intelligence in man caused him to produce worst of
himself, a generation of Jezebel and a descendant of
killers who kills, erode, destroys and decimates the whole
environment.
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36. However, earthly hell features absence of peace of
mind. Man’s hater is a convicted assassin who has no
peace of mind and because man has fellowed with his
greatest adversary who disguised in the skin of sheep, he
has to take stake in world’s burden. May be this is why it is
hard observing man in his composed form; it is either he
looks for something or something looks for him. There is
hardly a balance between what he demands and the
measure of supply that greets him.
Consequent to scarcity of peace, the clapper of
man’s confidence draws weary. He lacks confidence on
how to secede the repeatability of mistake of his antiquity.
The failure of which claims responsibility for his present
travails and storming quakes in times not yet revealed.
Turbulence or what is another word for draw down?
means inability of certain expectation to be met at certain
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37. time. Example is man’s quest for future success which is
most often than not barred by unforeseen events.
Another way earthly hell expresses itself is through
man’s inability to avert environmental disasters even
when he has a realistic foretell about their occurrence.
Meteorologists often give warning reports on future
environmental threats but they are no wise to predict a
possible means of stopping it from happening. Tsunamis,
hurricanes and other whirling winds are only foretold, no
curative measures have been pre-planned and fordone to
cause total aversion. Earth quakes have claimed lives of
many people with no stereotype over the years with
nothing done to design a means of killing the violent earth
movement the way antibiotics was given a torturous touch
by the discovery of antibiotics.
What about overt hell which makes its bout on
human mind; Psychological upset such as anger,
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38. disagreement, feud and war which constitute a whole
parliament of hell of the mind. The purpose of man’s
enemy is to utilize the hell of mind to scatter man and
make him far away from peace. No wonder why little
misunderstanding over trivial issues accounts for most
cases of divorce in this new age. It is simply a penetration
of earthly hell into the life of man. God made his man a
complete personality and compliments devoid of acrimony
and not the one that will marry to divorce . However, man
transformed himself to another creature different from in
situ.
Consequently, throughout the world, quite a number
of children are from broken homes .They are product of
earthly hell and complication of strained marriages. These
children have really evoked a mind of strong concern from
all who cares as regards whether to class them among the
vulnerable ( a long list which includes the physically
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39. handicapped) or not because of their weakened mind and
attenuated initiatives. They are part of the society where
they only struggle endlessly without hope of prosperity.
The reason why it is hard for them to climb is partly due to
their weakened mind and attenuated initiative; They are
unable to express psychological wellness and physical
fitness which are two important keys to success.
PART FIVE: THE REALITY
In a world of darkness; a world where dawn does not
pair with twilight, and a world where night does not pair
with day, inhabitants tend to live in darkness, believe in
darkness and act in darkness, unless they dart a place of
light, they might never believe there is light, agree world
of light is real and light as solution.
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40. To every question, there should be a befitting
answer somewhere. It is true man turned his pure heart to
impotent canal mind which open a wide door to his down
fall, he lost his peace, his hope was defeated and with his
eyes, he witnessed his dreams capped and washed down
the drain. He became a small ant dazzling within the
armpit of spider web. He shouted for help in a prison of
destruction.
Despite all these, there appeared to be a hope, a
solution and a headway real enough to be believed and
strong enough to lead man out of destruction. It is no
other than man’s return to his maker. This is the only
remedy to his perils. Just like the case of people who have
been thriving in a world characterized by chronic power
outage, the moment they received electricity light,
everything including their orientation begins to change in
response to the change.
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41. Man’s return to his maker is a restitution that is
required for the restoration of lost pact with God. It
involves renouncing the devil, his greatest adversary who
haphazardly blindfolded the mind of his target. Although it
is an imminent step, it does seem as easy as thought. It
therefore calls for adequate understanding of some basic
motivating realities which will gear the heart to taking the
step
First, God is a Lord of love. He showers his agape
love on all as sundry the way rain drips. For instance, He
demonstrated he loves man by creating him from a miry
clay and in His image, so that man may have the same
structural likeness like Him, He breathed a breath of life to
man so that man may have life just as He Himself has life.
He arranged different organs in man to execute different
but integrative work.
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42. He not only made man from miry clay, he also set his
feet upon the rock as a domineering creature.
Domineering and authoritative to the fullest, making
names for other creatures and having the auction to
sanction any one courtesy of any possible means. Yet man
was never made to work either by tilling the ground or
watching the sky before obtaining food. Besides, God
deposited a gene of proliferation in man making it possible
to fill and occupy the whole earth. All these for man
. Second, Devil hates man and can never be a soft or
perfect replacement or complement for the love of God. In
fact, he is responsible for human atrocity. He was the one
that turned the whole earth to hell for man just because
he, a failed minister of God destined for destruction,
wants to make as much accomplice as possible to the pit
of hell. He approached man in skin of sheep to lure man
with his deceitful and short-lived infrastructures. It is
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43. evident this is the same reason why he misled man such
that man ate the abominable fruit and earned the wrath of
his creator. Sufferings of diverse form being experienced
by man was actually orchestrated by devil to cause
irreparable havoc.
Devil is a spoiler that was sent out of heaven
because of his insubordination to the earth where he
pretended to have a good concept to human problems. He
was filled with tricks and transient reliefs. He is the
greatest confusionist of the world, deceives people with
the word of God .He initiates infirmity and calamity to
exterminate the lives of his subjects. All to usher man to
everlasting destruction.
Third, by simply turning off the instruction of God ,
Father Adam sinned. He corrupted his pure heart. He
denied himself son ship, exchanged a precious gift of life
for a bolus of food and by being a human being, man
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44. inherited a nature characterized by sinful tendencies from
the first man.
CAN GOD FORGIVE MAN AND ACCEPT HIM AGAIN?
Ever since man worked out on God, He has been
looking forward to having him back in His mansion. This
implies that if man returns to his initial drawing board, he
will receive warm welcome, he will not be scolded. He will
not be destroyed but the spirit of rebellion that devil
deposited in his heart will be sent out. He will expel
infirmities out of his heart
God will accept man again in as much as man will
accept the means He used as a yard stick for
reconciliation. This means also act as ransom which was
paid for human disobedience. It is this means that was
used to bridge the wide lacuna between God and man.
The means also brought a lasting end to whirling winds
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45. which blew man away from the place of his destiny. The
means is Jesus Christ, the blood of the lamb.
Jesus Christ is the son of God and man’s savior who
surrendered himself so cheaply so that salvation could be
free for all. He was persecuted, bruised and struck down
by men because of men and so that his blood can atone
for the wages of sins of man. All these he did so that man
may live forever again.
Besides his sacrifice for man, Jesus Christ has the
power to calm the whirling wind that scourged man. He
can still the wind that disturbs the thread that guards the
heart of man, just as he did when a strong wind which
almost capsize his boat arose; He never struggled with
the wind before it became still but only ordered it to calm,
then there was peace pronto
Whatsoever difficulty you are passing through today,
it is a result of inherited gene of fault from first man via the
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46. whirling wind which blew him away from his centered
path, with a resultant penalty. The whirling wind is devil
and the only treatment is Jesus. A certain man named
Jairus was bedeviled with death of his daughter. Jairus
was thrown to confusion by this untold wind, but he
overcame it the moment he called upon Jesus, the
solution who issued a decree of termination to the wind.
He could do much more exceedingly and abundantly
in the life of men who accept and believe in him. Any time
light shines in the world of darkness, there is always a
change. Jesus is the change, He is the light. He dearly
wants you to accept Him because he wants you to accept
light, a solution to the ugly trend in your life
He wants you to accept light into your world of
failure because the pass code to success is with him. He
has the wisdom that opens the gate of your success. He
gives all these to you if and only if you can open the door
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47. of your heart and allow him in. Behold, He stands by the
gate of your heart and knocks, only if you could open the
gate for Him, he would enter and calm your whirling wind.
THE TWELVE FACTS
• God is the creator of man.
• Devil, the whirling wind is a trickster, a failed servant
of God and an unrepentant intruder.
• Adam committed a sin of disobedience and incurred
the wrath of God.
• Adam was cursed.
• As human beings, all are descendants of Adam.
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48. • As descendants of Adam. all inherited tendency to
sin and genes that express manifestation of curses
placed on Adam.
• The wages of sin is death and eternal destruction (in
hell)
• God is an ever loving God, who demonstrated His
love by giving His only begotten son, Jesus so that
man may live eternally.
• Until man genuinely accepts Christ into his life, he is
under the confinement of sin, curse and death
without hope of living again.
• Those who accept Christ into their life will be saved.
• Those who receive Christ, believe and remain
consistent will enter the kingdom of God (eternal
life).
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49. • No other option, not even in future, Jesus is the last
hope of salvation and an endless remedy for spiritual
mortality.
GOD BLESS
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