I have spent an excess of fifteen thousand hours studying the Bible and I must admit I still have some unanswered questions. Questions like: is there life on other planets? The Bible is strangely silent on the extra terrestrial debate. I’d like to believe there are other created beings on a planet somewhere out there in the vast expanses of space who weren’t such a monumental disappointment to the Almighty. I lean, however, toward not only a young earth but a young universe. This is the creation story summed up in one sentence:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:11
You see there that not only was the earth created in six days, but heaven as well. That doesn’t do away completely with the E.T. possibility but it sure gives evolutionists pause for thought.
With all of this uncertainty over peripheral issues, I have come to some conclusions as well. One of those conclusions is that God hates religion. That’s right. In fact I dare say there is nothing He despises more. Religion is responsible for the majority of wars that have ever been waged on this planet. Religion has sent more people to hell than any other reason. Religion starves children to death every year. Religion keeps women in horrific bondage and robs men of the privilege of having the God given wealth available to them. God hates religion.
What does He want? You! He wants a personal, one on one, dynamic relationship with you! You can’t earn it. You can’t buy it. It’s not for sale. It has already been paid for. Nothing you do; no religious act could ever move God to think any higher or place any more value on you than He does right now. Worshipping cows and rats and the moon and stars will only earn you a spot in the “Time Wasted Hall of Fame”. The price has already been paid. No more crawling on hands and knees on broken glass is required. That price has been paid. Prayers that are said as obligatory mantras are wasted words spoken to no one who cares. Don’t even bother.
Are you serious about a relationship with God? Do you want to continue doing it your way? Are you happy with your religion? Your fire insurance? That insurance policy expired two thousand years ago when the price was paid in full and God no longer counted your sins against you. To think that you need to keep making payments against your debt is really saying that God isn’t good enough. The price He paid for your sin was not enough according to you. He paid it so that He could have a relationship with you. He wishes to be close to you. To love you like His own child. Put down your religions. Stop slapping God in the face. He deserves more than that, don’t you think?
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Romans 4:6
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