Posts

Showing posts with the label 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith

Don't waste your life!

Image
English: By Rembrandt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Bible teaches that the entire universe was created by God. And that God who has created everything has spoken to humanity in the Bible. And the Bible tells us that a fundamental characteristic of God is that He is holy. 1 John 1:5 says, “God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” That’s a way of saying that He’s entirely pure. God’s character is one of perfect moral uprightness. He is the essence of all that is good—so much so that, as the verse says, He can have absolutely no fellowship with “darkness”—no fellowship with that which is not perfectly holy, righteous, and pure. God’s righteous character was expressed in the law He gave to Moses and the Israelites . You’ve heard of the  Ten Commandments . They summarized the perfection of God’s character. These laws were directives for how people who were in a proper relationship with God must act. We are Sinful The problem is: all of us are sinful. We h...