You don’t know why the cross happened? Why tomorrow is ‘Good’ Friday? One verse of the Bible sums it up – 1 Peter 3:18 Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
Month: April 2011
Why I believe – Part 3: The Crux of the matter
Many hundreds of thousands of crosses, but we only remember this one. Those who were dying usually shouted and swore and cursed those who put them there. Here’s what Jesus said: in Luke 23 – ‘Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.”
Why I Believe – Part 2 (Does Jesus qualify as God?)
…he expected not just to be respected as a rabbi, a prophet, a holy man, but to be worshipped and adored by all creation, all people and even the angels as the Lord, the only God.
Why I believe – Part 1.
I heard the Marxist phrase about religion being ‘the opiate of the people,’ which made me sound clever in the pub and came to regard Jesus as a mythical figure, or if he did ever exist he was either a irrelevant prophet or a religious nutcase out to stop people from having fun.