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One pastor said that, as far as he was concerned, all religions are of God, and no religion is evil. Would you agree with him that no religion is bad? What can you say about the religion established by Jim Jones, who taught his members that they would not die even if they drink poison? Some 913 of them drank cyanide and all of them died. Will you consider that religion of God? Let your conscience answer that. How about those pastors who are introducing to you their own gods, will you regard them to be of God? If they are really of God, why are they fighting against each other?
I think instead of saying that this group, or that group, is of God, it would be better if it is God who would say that we are His. Wouldn’t that be better? It is so easy to claim that we are of God, but can you accept it that all of us are of God and all of us are righteous. Why, are you all faithful to your respective husbands and wives? Who among you has not answered back to his parents? Who among you have not nurtured any ill feeling towards his fellowman, to the point of even praying that he be hit by a train? Who among you have not taken anything which is not his? I’m sure some of you have committed some of what I have mentioned. Have you been a faithful wife to your husband? Why is it that there are stories of husbands who, after working in another country for sometime, he comes home surprised to find out that he has now three children when he just got two before he left? This thing really happens. Now, would you say that all of us are of God? For me, I would say that some of us are of God, but not all of us, simply because, some of us do things which are against the will of God.
If there is a God, our question is, who is he? Who will introduce Him to us? Could there be anybody who could introduce to us the God who created everything?
Let us not denounce, nor judge any religion yet. Let us study all of them as we search for the reason behind our existence here on earth. Undoubtedly, there is a creator. But who is he?
Let us all play neutral as we put them all to a test. Who is the creator of all things? They are attributing this to what they call, God. As we search for the truth, let us also call him God. But who is that God? There are groups that believe that God has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s. But let us ask the Bible if their belief were correct. John 4:24 says--
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Therefore, according to the Bible, God is a spirit. And how does the Bible define the word “spirit”? Luke 24:39 says--
“… for a spirit hath no flesh and bones …”
See how the belief of one group contradicts what the Bible says. So, what are we suppose to do now. They believe that God has flesh and bones, while the Bible says, God is a spirit. But there is still another group which believes that God is spirit, however, they also believe that God is not begotten and begets not.
I asked myself, whose son is Christ? Isn’t it that we believe that Christ is a son of God? Why is it that one group said that God has flesh and bones, while another group said, God has no flesh and bones? And still another group said that God is a spirit, but this spirit is not begotten?
I believe that God was not really born. But I cannot accept that God cannot beget inasmuch as God is a spirit. Why, who begot all of you? Were you not begotten by your mother? The question is, who created your mother? Have we not agreed that God is the creator of all men? If your mother, who was just created by God, can beget children, how much more is the one who created your mother. The more He could beget. Wouldn’t that make sense? If our mother who was just made by God could beget children, the more God could beget if He wants to. If he was able to create a mother who could beget, could he not beget also? Try to think about it.
I just couldn’t accept their belief that God begets not. But let us give them the benefit of the doubt. They say that God begets not, while the Bible said otherwise. Isn’t it that there are “children of God”? How’s that now? . . . This is what we will study next time. . . .
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Who
is the God of the Bible?
