We gather each week as fellow believers ... but believers in what? A particular "worldview" and lifestyle? A doctrine? The ideals and teachings of a man who lived around 2,000 years ago?
If we believe these things we are doing better than many. But if this is the extent of our belief, if we have put "realistic" limits and boundaries on our beliefs, if we have settled for living a different ideology but not a different REALITY we have not understood the mind boggling truth Jesus has revealed to us about the actual reality in which we live and the amazing destiny for which we were created.
To be a true follower and believer of Christ you HAVE to be as "crazy" as He was. You cannot escape being regarded as totally bonkers and nuts by non-believers. You have to believe crazy things are actually real and true AND you actually have to live and act as if they are.
Here are some of the crazy things I, as a follower of Christ, believe are actually real and true .
I believe the Earth and the universe were created by a being who exists outside of and independent from both time and space. That very dead people can be raised up bodily and restored back to life. I believe in non-terrestrial, non-human, beings who have invited me to join them. AND I actually look forward to them literally "coming to take me away".
I believe it is possible to walk on water unaided, to turn water into wine, to divide the waters of seas and rivers without mechanical intervention, that all medical conditions, disabilities, and injuries can be totally cured without medical intervention SHOULD The Lord will it. And many even crazier things.
In short I live with Christ Jesus as the CREATOR, REVEALER, and CONTROLLER of the REALITY I live in, and as if, by HIS will, all things really are possible even when science and "realistic common sense" want me to believe they are not.
After all, if everything the Bible says is actually true you'd be crazy NOT to ..... Right?
D.J. Ludlow
Actually a careful examination of the Bible as well as history leads to only one logical and rational conclusion and that is, that the Bible could not have been written by man. Whoever wrote the Bible had to be able to see AND control past, present and FUTURE all at once as repeatedly proven by perfectly fulfilled prophecy. You see NONE of the prophets and apostles who wrote these things every claimed THEY could do that. They always declared that these things were told to them by those who are not from Earth.
(For more information about the incredible fulfillments of Biblical prophecy see my "Reality Bender" videos at my "IslandBard's Channel" at YouTube. (I am IslandBard at YouTube).
But it is interesting that you talk about what if extraterrestrials landed. After all neither Jesus nor any of the Angels ever claimed to be FROM Earth. They came to earth to teach mankind. It is important to understand that what Science calls the rest of the universe/cosmos the Bible has only ever called "Heaven".
You can be sure a non-terrestrial will return to Earth and will judge it. That too is Biblical prophecy.
Please think seriously about it. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
Kindest regards,
D,J, Ludlow (aka IslandBard)
As some other writers have already written, I believe that if extraterrestrials actually arrived to our rather insignificant planet with rather ignorant warring and ideological thinking, we would think we were being visited by God. It certainly would be interesting to imagine what they could do for us.
I think it's crazy to believe in what the Bible says, since it was written by people trying to manipulate other people into believing their points of view.
Ron