““He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1Peter 2:24
I believe. In the book entitled 'God's not dead 2, the right to believe and tell someone the powerful redemption story is being placed on trial because someone was offended by the mere mention of the name of Jesus. In God's not dead 2 we discover that a public school teacher risks losing her license to teach simply because she answered a student's question about the historical figure Jesus in her history class.
The significance of this book was highlighted further when I read what was currently happening in Russia when the president of that country signed a law that took effect in July 2016 that would make it unlawful to talk about God and evangelize anywhere outside the church, including on-line.
Why is it ok to openly discuss the historical philosopher's from Emmanuel Kant, Socrates, to the modern-day atheists like Richard Dawkin's, but it isn't Ok to discuss the evidence that give credence to the bible? While society would love nothing better to tape the mouths of Christian believer's, they fail to see the powerful impact the Holy Spirit has in motivating people to share God's love.
Take, for example, the thousands of people that are called to travel to all parts of he world because of a dream God laid on their heart to share his message.
The bible, for example, is filled with story upon story of people of all ability levels to be God's mouthpiece. to speak God's message.
God uses imperfect people to bring his message of hope to a world searching for meaning and a solution for their inner pain.
In God's not dead 2, the family who brought the lawsuit against the teacher had suffered the loss of their son just months earlier, and were in my opinion in the throes of anger toward God for 'taking their son'.
Instead of accepting the reality that they live in an imperfect world where occasionally bad things happen to good people they decided to 'blame God' for what he did to them. Like most of us have done, I'm s sure they rationalized that 'if there truly is a loving God then this wouldn't have happened to us. A fallacy if I ever heard one base on my own experience of losing a child.
People need the message of hope that the bible has for them. What better way to receive that message than from the very people who successfully traveled this painful journey with the help of the loving Savior, Jesus Christ?
As long as I'm still living and breathing, I am obligated to share this message of hope to people hurting by the losses in their lives.
God is certainly not dead, but he is alive.
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