Yearly Archive: 2009

The empty tomb. The scared Roman Soldiers. The anxious Disciples.

All memories of yesterday – Easter morning!

Yesterday was an indelible stamp on history. No one has been able to erase the death and resurrection that happened. Many have tried in many ways. Attempts have been made to distort history – to declare it hallucination or "something". But, they have not been able to erase it from history.

Even attempts to destroy the manuscripts that recorded and reported what had happened – those too failed.[more]

Many would rather believe what others have to say about Jesus or how he said to live, but in the end, when anyone investigates for themself, there stands Jesus. Standing face to face in the words of his disciples and friends – even non-believing historians who recorded what happened. Peter himself said "you will be exploited with false words…"

Peter, James, John and Jesus warned us that there would be those who would try to convince us that it wasn't so. That they (the false teachers) would distort what had happened and lead us away from the truth. If we ourselves know the truth from studying it, then it is hard to be led astray. Everyday we need to seek His truth – then it won't be faint memories from our past, but actions for today.

Actually, it's more like my Bible reading echoed what we watched on HC the other night. The show was about the end of the world – Armegeddon! The show was a mix about what Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions had to say about the "End Times."

The echo I picked up here in Second Peter 2 was about angels being cast out of heaven (verse 4). Surprising how HC got the story right in so many ways. Evil walks about the earth, seeking whom he/it can devour. Just like a roaring lion. There is so much in chapter 2 that it cannot be covered in a flash.[more]

Needless to say, there are some things that strike at the heart of many of today's preachers and religions. Peter calls them "false teachers" who present messages that even deny what they were originally taught – like they think that by some magic, they know more than what they were first taught. What is worse is that they begin to convince others that what they think is a "better" way, and so deceive them.

The problem here is that the "deceived" fall prey to the fallacy that "a loving God would not want me to do 'that'" in clear defiance of what God's Word says. Read this chapter twice, and then tell me what a "false teacher" is and what they will teach.

S'cuse me, while I read it again…