The only person to listen to about life is the Creator of all life, and that is God. How do you find out about what life is all about? By finding out what God has written down through various authors through divine inspiration (God put His thoughts in many people's heads and dictated word for word what they should say - in their own words!) That sounds like an impossibility to have someone write in their own words exactly what you want to say, but God is not ordinary. He is more extraordinary than anyone you could possibly imagine. And I will try to explain exactly what I mean by that.
But first, I want to say that there are thousands of people and books and pamphlets and organizations trying to tell you about life and death who have absolutely no experience with death. There is only one who has lived and died and is alive today. His name is Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. This is not just a belief, but a truth that is more easily proved by history and those who lived when He lived than to prove the birth and life of any other historically famous person such as George Washington. Do you really believe in George W.? Can you prove it?
One of the greatest proofs is to try to disprove anything He has written. God wrote the Word of God and elevated His Word above His own name. (He said that, I didn't.) I'll start quoting the "where did He say that" if you want me to. Some people believe that the bible is a book written by a bunch of different men, which it is, but the men were writing down their own experience from God's mind and in their own words. How do I know that? Because God said it in the second book of Timothy, chapter 3 and verse 16: "All scripture is given by inspiration (God breathed) of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man (person) of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." In the book of John (in the New Testament) God wrote, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Another name for Jesus is "The Word of God." There are many other names that He is called as well, such as "Wonderful," "Counselor," "The Mighty God," "The Everlasting Father," and "The Prince of Peace." The amazing thing about Jesus is His obviously opposite nature. The nature of Christ as a man is impossibly opposite to His nature as God, and yet He is comfortable and perfect in both venues. As far as I can determine there are ten (10) attributes that make up God's incomparable and "absolute" nature and they are are follows:
Sovereignty - Whatever God says is so. King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He can countermand anyone else's commands.
Absolute Righteousness - God is absolutely Good in everything He says and does. God cannot do evil.
Absolute Justice - God demands righteousness and punishes evil and is absolutely fair.
Absolute Love - God is the quintessential essence of Love. God is Love.
Omnipotence - God is the highest power there is and His power has no limits.
Omniscience - God knows absolutely everything. Even "the hairs on our heads are numbered to God." There is no insignificant truth that He is not aware of, which brings us to the next attribute.
Absolute Truth - It is impossible for God to lie. It is not part of His character. He also has no reason to lie. There is no entity singular of plural or thing that God is afraid of. There is no reality that He is scared of including death, and, in fact He is the author of death as well as the Creator of all life.
Omnipresence - He is everywhere at the same time. God is a Spirit and that makes it possible to be all over at once. In Star Wars, the Jedi masters believed in a "force" that is in and through all things. But it is not some force produced by microscopic creatures called "Midochlorians, "according to George Lucas, it is actually God who is that force, and no one controls Him. The space He occupies is unlimited.
Immutability - Change is not a part of God. He is "the same yesterday, today and forever," which is very reassuring to our world which is characterized by change.
Eternal Life - God has always been and always will be. A difficult concept for any of us to understand since everyone and everything that we have ever known has or had a beginning. But God always was, and there was never a time when He was not. He is Eternal because He has no limitations in or to time and is in fact the creator of time, which is a small part of eternity and how He can know all things.
That said, Jesus as a man is the exact opposite of all these things, and yet, He is still God. Jesus' life on earth is a paradox that I will delineate in a future installment. So, please keep reading.
