Beliefs Matter
It’s unbelievable.The evil personified in human beings with false religious zealotry is beyond our explanation.Some of us stared in disbelief when watching the first news reports. They put a man in a cage and burned him alive while he was screaming in pain. It is just unbelievable.And now we are hearing more. Over the last year these evil people have been systematically torturing, raping, selling as slaves, and beating to death…children. Children! In the name of religion!I don’t know if evil is ever more accentuated than it is when coupled with false religion. You have to know that Satan is involved when there is a claim of some kind of worship, and that worship or religious belief leads to torturing, raping and killing children.And there are still people in Academic Ivory Towers who claim that there is no such thing as evil. I think we all know otherwise.It matters what you believe. What you believe makes you who you are. It leads to the choices you make and habits you establish. What you believe, matters.That’s why we are doing this series, “What Do Christians Believe?”The only answer for this dark, cruel and hurting human race, is sincere belief in the real Jesus. It is in Jesus that narcism and animosity in the dark corners of human hearts are cleansed and absolved. The Jesus that Christians believe in is the answer. And Jesus himself said that he is the only answer.Christians believe that evil is real. Christians believe that going our own way or even creating our own religions has led to the acts of hatred against humanity. Sin is the source of evil. Christians believe that.But we also believe in Jesus, the Savior, who came to deliver us from our sin and rescue us from its repercussions. And when we believe in him to the point of becoming one of his committed disciples, depending on his death on the cross and resurrection from the dead, he does just that. He frees us from the guilt of our sin, cleanses our hearts of sin’s corruption, reconciles us to our creator and gives us spiritual life that will take us to heaven for eternity.Do you believe? Because it matters…it matters more than anything.