How Can We Have Authentic Life?

How Can We Have Authentic Life?

What is the TRUTH? The truth is we were all born into sin. Why? Because there was a first man and woman made in God's image with a spirit of God-consciousness and truly free-will. We know this because man has been worshipping some deity for as long as we can remember, and we can all reflect upon our very free-will choices.

These two souls were told they could eat the fruit of any tree in the garden of Eden (a safe place) but not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil because they would not be able to handle it properly. Man could not resist the temptation when another being suggested that it was OK to eat of it then they would be like God.

Since that time that occurred around 6000 years ago (we know this because we can count back the genealogy of the event), all the human race has been tainted with sin. Sin leads to death-it speeds it along. Hence, it is not God's will.

You ask how do you know there is God? I know this by knowing that nothing in nature happens all by itself. Since nature always has a cause and nothing can cause itself in nature, then we know the only possibility is the uncaused is the cause. We may call the uncaused cause the uncreated creator Who always was, is, and always shall be.

We know experientially no sin goes unpunished. It always finds a way sooner or a later to haunt us. When Jesus died on the cross His punishment was the punishment for the sins of all mankind, because nothing about Jesus would require this great suffering upon His soul. He was perfectly sinless. You know His death was to be the substitution for your sins, so that if you would believe in what He did for you, God could receive you to Him as a son or daughter to live out eternity with Him.

But you ask, how do you know there is an eternity of existence? Because you were made in God's image as evident by the fact that humans are entirely unique creatures so far above all other creatures on earth that we just can't overlook the great plan that is in motion and centered on us. Hence, you are intrinsic value to God, not instrumental value as some means to an end. God will select out a people for Himself to be with Him in the abode of the physical new city on the new earth (the old earth will be burnt up and without the sea).

What then must you do? Come to the cross as a helpless sinner to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. By so doing, not only do you escape hell, but you have something you never had before-from your Creator the forgiveness for every wrong you ever did which make you cleansed before Him. God did this not only for you, but He does it for Himself. He needs you to be cleaned up before you can come before Him. Only then will you have eternal life. Eternal life is both an ability to know God personally as well as assures of eternal blessings, and it happens the split instant when you are born-again: regeneration takes places and you are given a new spirit.

You may not be able to sense it, but know that it is true according to God's Word. In experience, those who have gone through new birth come out on the other end unable to ever go back to what they were. It is impossible because your choice was an authentic choice for forever. As you grow in this new life (as a new creation), daily you will begin to sense His Holy Spirit working in you in that still small voice, inner movements and inner registrations. He enters in through the window of your conscience to find a place to dwell in your spirit's intuition in communion with God the Father and His Son.