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I believe that God is the author of everything including “science.” God did not give us all the mathematical formulas and derivations such as differential and integral calculus, differential equations, laplace transforms, and so on but he gave us the capability to “think” so that we have the science today.
The Bible says, “He who is not with me is against me …” – Matthew 12:30.
In this passage, it tells us that there is no “neutrality or in-between.” If we analyze further Jesus words, I believe that God gave to George Boole, the theory of Boolean Algebra as well as to Claude Shannon where he applied the theory of Boole to go into logical truth table where the High – means logic 1 and Low –means logic 0, which represents the “state” for a particular logic gate. Shannon explored further into the information theory and so on. Now both theories of Boole and Shannon applied Jesus words of no “in-between.” Either you are with Jesus (logic 1) or against Jesus (logic 0).
Some of you are working in electrical and electronics circuitry and if you find a logic gate IC (integrated circuit) that deviates from the truth table original design; then the whole circuit may not work. Very interesting observations if you are in this field to make an alignment in Matthew 12:30.
As a result of God given word to us, we can see the technology as we do have the computer that when we hit the keyboard, that keyboard sends series of serial data of 0’s and 1’s to the motherboard and it will display in the screen whatever the characters that we hit in the keyboard. We do have the cellular, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and other Internet technologies. This include other high tech perspective from satellite communications as well as intercepting hostile ICBM missiles from the outside world. God gave people the talent of science, regardless if they believe God or not.
However, in spiritual sense to that passage above, it tells us also, that there is no way, we can get into heaven if we are against Jesus Christ. Jesus explained further in John 14:6 ; I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus is the way to the Father. No one else. Jesus Christ is the only way to God.
Some people do not like Jesus teaching but the Bible is very clear and it teaches us, that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. It is not being a member of the Catholic faith, and joining other religious denominations such as Baptist, Lutherans, Presbyterian, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and including Islam, Buddhist, and any religion in the world.
The Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ is the way to heaven, the way to God and the way to eternal life.
Some of you, fellow Christians are not yet grounded in the Word. I encourage you to put first God in your life as Jesus told us in Matthew account, “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added on to you.”
If you notice this verse, we need to seek God first. It means, God is the No. 1 priority in our life in everything we do. Then — he continued…”and his righteousness.” His righteousness is found only in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The Bible declares that our righteousness is just like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). To get right with God is to go first to Jesus and repent and follow and trust Jesus. Therefore, if we trust Jesus with all our hearts (Proverbs 3: 5, 6) then God will give us the things that we “need” in our life. Remember, that God will not give us the “greed” that we need but the things that we need from God.
Some of you who are following this Faith section, please read John 3:1-21, if you are not a Christian yet and do some exploration of God’s word. A Christian is a born again by the Spirit of God repents of all his sinful lifestyles. Do you remember the words of Jesus after he was tempted by the devil? Jesus said in Matthew 4:17, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near.” Apostle Paul gave us all the details of this one passage from Jesus in 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 and Romans 1:18-32. Then follow and obey Jesus Christ until he will call you home either by the rapture or by physical death.
Some of you might say, you do not even know what I have done in my life. How can God forgive my sins and my evil acts? You remember the thief on the cross? There were two thieves hanging on crosses with Jesus was at the center. Both of the thieves have done wrong to people as well as they sinned against God. One thief humbled himself to Jesus, and he said, “Lord remember me…” Jesus told him, “Today, you will be with Me in paradise.”
If that is the desire in your heart to humble yourself to God, please pray with me. Father God, I am a sinner. Please forgive me. I believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. Help me to follow you for all the days of my life. In Jesus name. Amen.
If you prayed sincerely, you are now born again Christian. I encourage you to plug-in to a Bible believing church that preach and teach the Bible “verse-by-verse” so that you can know the “full counsel of God” and to be matured by the Word of God.
Read “first” the book of John to know that Jesus was God (100 percent) and Jesus was human (100 percent).
Nauru Weah lives in Palmer.
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