It is no longer a novelty to think of the western world today as being 'religious'; this may be seen in the widespread interest in: This 'religious interest' clearly suggests that despite our unprecedented standards of living and our scepticism about any ultimate meaning in life, people today are still seeking for something in life deeper than material things, and more permanent than the here and now.

Of course, the fact that people are looking does not mean that there is necessarily something to be found, but I unashamedly claim that:

This 'something' is presented to us in what has historically been called Christianity, which is based on two things:

The person is Jesus Christ, who is revealed to us in a book, the Bible.

To understand the message of the Bible about Jesus Christ, it is necessary to realise that the Bible starts from the assumption that God exists. No-one in the Bible attempts to prove the existence of God, although there is an abundance of evidence presented that shows that He does exist.

The Bible begins with the declaration that it was God who created the entire universe. This God, being ruler of the universe, does not exist merely in:

In fact, far from requiring humans in order to exist, it is He Himself who grants to humans life, breath and everything else that we require.

Having created a single race of humans, it is this God who has fixed the times, places and events of every individual's life, carefully giving them opportunity to seek Himself. For He genuinely desires that each individual should seek and find Himself, coming into a personal relationship with Himself.

Of course, He is not actually far from any of us - after all, it is only by His minute-by-minute supply of life to us that we live! Thus we must not think of this God as being anything less than a living Person, nor of ourselves as being anything less than people created for a satisfying relationship with Him.

God has been merciful in telling us all this in the Bible, for we could never have found it out ourselves, and we do not deserve to know. For all of us have spent our lives rebelling against His authority and failing to obey His moral law. Now He commands every man, woman and child to 'repent' (to change one's mind, purpose, and life) of their 'sin' (their rebellion and disobedience), for He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world, including every individual that has ever lived.

The standard by which He will judge the world will be a man - Jesus Christ - and that man will Himself be the judge. God has openly declared this, and assured us of its truth by raising Jesus Christ from the dead.

For having lived a perfectly righteous life in Palestine early in the first century AD, Jesus Christ was executed on a Roman cross on the orders of the Roman governor of Judea (a man by the name of Pontius Pilate), and his corpse was placed in a nearby cave. However, being God Himself, death could not hold Him, and He was raised from the dead, taking up life again with the body which previously had laid cold in the tomb.

Thus God has assured us that death is not the end of an individual's existence, that He is in control of all events on this earth, and that He will one day call us to give an account of our actions.

However, this same Jesus Christ freely offers to all a way of escape from suffering the punishment due to us for our sins, and it is this that forms the central teaching of Jesus Christ himself and the entire Bible!

All this may prompt fury, astonishment or delight in you.

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