A very deep word. I believe. I believe in who? In God. In God we trust says the American Dollar. But what they do know? In dollar we trust. A great theme shifted from what the root was.
I believe, I, means for me that it is me and no other people imposed that on me. Yes we can say or declare something that we dont want to, but regarding faith, it is you, I, yourself, myself, he, she who declare it. It is your/my responsibility. No other can be blamed when you yourself find your believe now in your religion now is misleading, vain, fault, futile, and leads you to nowhere but the everlasting wrath of God. No, to the everlasting regret, why why why I was so bold to reject the free offer of gospel when I was alive.
The theme of choice, individual choice, is so firmly held as one of the basic right of every human. But the same right will lead human to either everlasting death or everlasting life.
I believe in God is a very bold statement. Believe is often used to refer to a blind trust of something. But for Christian, believe is the most fundamental aspect before we can know what we believe. No one know first then believe, it is believe first then you will know whether what you believe is true or not.
I believe in santa claus probably heard so familiar when we were a children. But this believe is abandoned when we grew up as we know it was our parents who always gave us what we thought santa did. So we believe first and in the end we know that it is wrong. Or let's say we in the first place did not believe that or in other words we choose to believe that it does not exist. And as time goes by we learn from culture that santa was invented and we learn from others that it was their parents who gave it. So that is right.
But what about believe in God?
Which god/s?
What kind of god/s?
Friday, June 5, 2009
Credo
- Apostles' Creed from Common Book of Prayer
- I believe in God, the Father almighty,
- creator of heaven and earth.
- I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
- who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
- born of the Virgin Mary,
- suffered under Pontius Pilate,
- was crucified, died, and was buried;
- he descended to the dead.
- On the third day he rose again;
- he ascended into heaven,
- he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
- and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
- I believe in the Holy Spirit,
- the holy catholic Church,
- the communion of saints,
- the forgiveness of sins,
- the resurrection of the body,
- and the life everlasting.
- Amen.
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