Saturday, January 29, 2011

God' s Revelation

Almost all religions emphasize on the seeking of God by human being. Christianity emphasizes on God's revelation. Only those lost need to be found. God is not lost, human being is lost.
The fact that we cannot see God is reasonable. Because the person who made a table is not a table, likewise He who created material things is not material Himself. What we can see through our eyes are limited. Can we see love? Can we see freedom? yet these all exist. God is unlimited, that is why He cannot be seen through our limited eyes.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”
16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. John 1

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The doctrine of trinity

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1
1 太 初 有 道 , 道 与 神 同 在 , 道 就 是 神 。

2 这 道 太 初 与 神 同 在 。

3 万 物 是 藉 着 他 造 的 ; 凡 被 造 的 , 没 有 一 样 不 是 藉 着 他 造 的 。約 翰 福 音 1
-The religions of the East and of the Greek are the seeking of the truth by men.
True God actively seeks for men.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Luke 19
-We cannot compare God to material things.
-Taking an analogy. A preacher spoken what was in his mind through his mouth. When somebody recorded what was said, there are two sermons yet they are the same one.
Father-Creation;Son-Salvation,Judgment;Holy spirit-Revelation,life

Monday, January 10, 2011

The calling of God

The calling of God is such that we may believe in Him and most important of all that we may suffer for Him.
Sequence of calling:
1) Jesus Christ died and resurrected for us.
2) We died together with Christ and resurrected with Him
3) We live for Christ and we will die for Christ