"Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. (Mark 12:32)
I told you from yesterday’s meditation that the power of God’s salvation through Jesus Christ can be divided into two levels, namely, positive level and passive level. This is a dialectic relationship of tension rather than a division. Christians experience the joy of salvation in the positive level and at the same time we should also open it in the passive level. Those who truly experience the positive level of salvation naturally accept the passive level of salvation. The reason lies on the fact that God is one and the only creator.
According to Physicist’s explanation, the entire universe including the solar system to which the earth belongs began from a certain point. It is believed that at one point of time there occurred a “Big Bang” (great explosion) in the past. This is the bone of contention between the scientific explanation about the beginning of the universe and the Biblical explanation about the creation. The Bible says God created the universe out of nothing. This nothingness could be referred to the particular point which physicists contend.
God of the Bible we believe is the one who created the heavens and the earth. The creator has the responsibility for his creation activity. Undeniably, the beauty of God’s creation is greatly damaged as a result of human’s sin but even this is also God’s ultimate responsibility. This is God’s mercy. For example, it was the younger son’s responsibility when he left his father’s house as depicted in the parable of the prodigal son. However, the father felt the deep sense of responsibility even for this grievous separation. The father risked his entire destiny for his son’s return. By the mercy of the father, the younger son was saved.
We should not lose the fact that the one God we believe is the creator. With the creation of the heavens and the earth in the beginning, God’s creative activity has not yet come to an end, but is still continuing and will be continued till the end of time. Does not God plan to save the entire human beings who had lived, who are living and who will be living?
I told you from yesterday’s meditation that the power of God’s salvation through Jesus Christ can be divided into two levels, namely, positive level and passive level. This is a dialectic relationship of tension rather than a division. Christians experience the joy of salvation in the positive level and at the same time we should also open it in the passive level. Those who truly experience the positive level of salvation naturally accept the passive level of salvation. The reason lies on the fact that God is one and the only creator.
According to Physicist’s explanation, the entire universe including the solar system to which the earth belongs began from a certain point. It is believed that at one point of time there occurred a “Big Bang” (great explosion) in the past. This is the bone of contention between the scientific explanation about the beginning of the universe and the Biblical explanation about the creation. The Bible says God created the universe out of nothing. This nothingness could be referred to the particular point which physicists contend.
God of the Bible we believe is the one who created the heavens and the earth. The creator has the responsibility for his creation activity. Undeniably, the beauty of God’s creation is greatly damaged as a result of human’s sin but even this is also God’s ultimate responsibility. This is God’s mercy. For example, it was the younger son’s responsibility when he left his father’s house as depicted in the parable of the prodigal son. However, the father felt the deep sense of responsibility even for this grievous separation. The father risked his entire destiny for his son’s return. By the mercy of the father, the younger son was saved.
We should not lose the fact that the one God we believe is the creator. With the creation of the heavens and the earth in the beginning, God’s creative activity has not yet come to an end, but is still continuing and will be continued till the end of time. Does not God plan to save the entire human beings who had lived, who are living and who will be living?
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