Being human is a tough job. Of course there are the one percent of humanity who control roughly 90% of its wealth. They are the humans who live in opulence, luxury and carelessness. The other side of the spectrum is human, abject poverty coupled with suffering. Why does one get to live so richly and the other so desperately?
That is a question that cannot be answered without investigation. We know when a child turns five, they can easily recognize a "poor" man and a "rich" man. When a preteen comes to pass puberty, they long for riches and the life of the jet set because they SEE what they do not have. By the time we are thrust into college learning or the real world of labor, we see with what difficulty riches are gained and how we have to pay out to survive. We settle into normality with perhaps a feeling of "is this all there is?". We grow up, we strive, struggle through challenges, bill paying, physical ailments, deaths of friends and family. All the while we start to doubt that this life is worth living or that to invest too much is a waste of time and we give up because quitting is easier than understanding it all. Life is just a dealt hand of cards and you just accept what you are given and then its over, correct?
No. It is not correct. We are not simple animals (yes I know how complex animals are, but I have never seen a chimpanzee type a dictionary, let alone question why they "are") we are the "thinkers". While we have dominion over the animal world for the most part, they are not like us. We ARE different. We live a life that creates. It pulses, it interacts, it challenges, it harms, it blesses and a thousand other attributes lie in the life of a human. We WONDER about the episodes of life and what their meaning is. We struggle to find understanding. We want to KNOW why, how, when, who and where. Science which is a marvel and wonderful for us to have has not yet proven that the animal or natural world has any biological entity outside the human race that has posed questions, wondered, pondered, investigated or debated its existence.
You see we are the ones who must ask "what is my purpose in this life?". We add "What happens when this life is over?" We aregue, debate and contend the conclusions about the truth of the whole matter. We seek the facts, look for the evidence, listen to others, listen to our inside voice and we either stay awash in confusion by it all, or we set our mind on the rock, solid truth.
What is truth? We find truth in what IS and what CONTINUES and what WAS. It is an ABSOLUTE. That means, an unchanging point of reference. Dr. Ravi Zacharias uses this illustration. Have you ever been at a stoplight and been distracted, looked up and on your side another car is moving forward? You don't know if it is you or them, so you press your brake pedal harder. The light is still red, they are moving, you are still not sure so what do you do? you look for a FIXED object. A tree, a building. It is ONLY when you affirm that point of reference and its permanence that you can realize that you are the one who is NOT moving. The truth today given by humanistic, secular and non religious scholars is that it all MOVES. You cannot TRUST anything, its all relative or changing. Just by stating this we know that is NOT TRUE.
We could call truth the "absolute". There are absolutes. Here on earth if you drop a plate, it will fall until it meets its physically impassible barrier and gravity will hold it there, until a greater force compels it into a different direction. In finance, if you borrow more than you make you will eventually be broken and without commerical power. In philosophy you cannot contradict what is incontradictable. In engineering, you cannot overstress steel when building a bridge by passing the time tested formula for length and weight. In hydrodynamics, free flowing water will find its own level. In electricity, touching a live and ground wire will complete a circuit and what is in between will flow current. That is absolute, it happens everytime and will never be interrupted. If we do not maintain our cars, they will degrade. Absolutes are all around us, yet the philisophical, scientific, skeptics and detractors all contradict absolutes. Are there new truths and absolutes we have not found yet? YES and again I scream "YES!!", however that does not erase or nullify the past absolutes.
If you follow this school you are bankrupt of hope. ABSOLUTES give hope. If I negate and deny that there is a GOD, life is MEANINGLESS and is no value in running life to its full course. I will seek out meaning because it is inherent in my mind, just as it is in your mind. I will choose to seek meaning, absolutes and hope, or I will believe the humanistic school and lead myself to drink, drugs, hobby, denial, outrage towards the absolutists (Christians and honest science) and ultimately the darkness of a death with the UNKNOWN on the other side. You cannot erase GOD. You cannot erase the historians of Greece, Rome and four other countries who attested to CHRIST being crucified. What is the evidence for the other prophets? Did they become the worlds biggest religion? Of course there are blemishes on the human side of it, but to be the worlds fastest growing, most influential and godly, surely shows the testimonies were true.
We live in an age where mankind is hanging his/her spiritual coat on a trembling nail called pride. The prideful DENY possibility. They deny facts, they deny truth, they lie, cheat, steal and underhandedly act in order to gain notariety, control over people and huge amounts of wealth. Pride is the only thing that is being presented to destroy the fact of Christianity. It was pride that shot lucifer from heaven down to this earth. It was pride that turned Adam and Eve from in God's presence to the lowly place of being an eternal soul, in a physical (not glorified body), out of God's presence, living under the law because they chose it, beings. From the exit away from Eden until now pride has shook its finger in the face of absolutes and said "I REFUSE to acknowlege absolutes". Pride says "That is the unchangeable truth, but I will not be moved outside of my own thinking". How many lives have been taken, how many mistakes, misjudgements, maimings, eletrocutions, falls, accidental deaths have occurred because of pride? How many living, human babies have been murdered in the womb because of pride (saving face)?". How many problems have we brought into our own lives, in SPITE of our elders telling us "you can't avoid the effect of your causes"? We had to learn for ourselves, but somewhere along the years in this life we conclude that we are no longer going to excuse the ABSOLUTES/TRUTHS by trusting in our PRIDE, which really are feelings. What if we continued on with trusting feelings only? Could we trust the whole of our communities and our professionals in dire and emergency circumstances? I would like to see hwo many of you would fly airlines with pilots who relied on their feelings instead of their fully working gauges. "I know the altimeter says we are two thousand feet above ground, but I feel like we are way higher than that and want to drop down ten thousand feet". How about a surgeon? Auto mechanic? Dentist? Electrical worker? Pride has no place in the world of truth/absolutes.
I remember the first time I questioned God. While I was away from the faith of Christianity I heard many outrageous theories. I took it all in. All religions, all faiths but they did not have the ABSOLUTES/TRUTHS that rang true in my mind. I was given a mind to THINK, a heart to create, correct and move forward and a soul to seek my maker. There is only ONE absolute that has answered the questions, given the understanding and explained why it is the way it is. That is the truth of the bible. If someone has taken away books of it, changed it, reintroduced it wrongly but I have kept seeking the truth and am uncovering it day by day as an honest student; I can ABSOLUTELY lean on the truths I have found. I do know that with Jesus Christ operating on men without corruption and sincerity in their hearts my world is a better world. I also know that corrupted Chrstianity and untruths and the philosophy of relative truth or meaninglessness has caused more deaths than any Chrsitian war ever fought. There is too much truth to be found and so little variance to wade through to make the excuse that one has given up on finding the absolute truth. It can be found, it HAS BEEN Found and it WILL BE Found from here to eternity. For someone to say all truth is corrupted and we can believe nothing and there are no absolutes is to be a candle shining on the birthday cake saying "I have no light, there is no party and I will not be blown out, this is all imagined".
You must either use evidence based on the knowlege you seek out, or you have to push the queries aside and live without those answers. . It is supposed that the spiritual desert is a place each human passes through. That is where your heart tests the absolutes. Faith in those absolutes found, is a life with a clear conscience, understanding and moving forward into knowing exist. No abolutes is a sloop in a squall. Tossed to and fro, never knowing, always denying. How long will a life lose itself when there is no concrete path laid out, instead of a thickly underbrush filled jungle fought through?
Use your thinker, if you fall down, its going to hurt....to a certain degree.
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