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Shine a Light on the Darkness.

I hope you still believe in good and evil, surely we haven't reached the point where these two terms are relative? I hate to see the bad guys win in life, but we have been living in a world where truth has become relative. I am a part of the catholic church, and experienced a crisis in faith when one of our leaders accused the Pope of a cover up. Many Catholics were silenced and made to feel that their faith didn't matter. We have remained intact to a certain degree, but this crisis just reflected the crisis that is going on in the world right now between atheism and belief. There are more atheists in our world now than there has ever been in history, and some of you reading this just might be one of them.

You might ask why has unbelief in God become a trend in the 20th and 21st centuries? I think we have reached the point where we can no longer blame it on the believers, because for a while there we were getting blamed. I personally think it is a heart problem, or a sin problem. But how can this be, when sin has been around throughout our human history? I think this might be a trend, but if you ask me it is a very bad one. It started by people not believing in Hell. Don't ask me how this started, it just did. People challenged the church's teaching on eternal punishment, then they attacked the authority of the bible on this doctrine. You see, if you can prove to the world that there is no punishment for sin in the afterlife, then you don't need God, and you don't need the bible. 21st Century moral relativism was born, and the church instead of reaching lost souls with the gospel was put on the defensive. When you are constantly defending yourself, you get tired and look bad.

This is what happened to the church. She literally turned in on herself out of sheer exhaustion. Yes the gates of hell won't prevail, but because the church was always being challenged it gave her little time to build herself up. So, I believe we are in a very important stage in the church's history, where God needs to do some healing work on us, which I believe is already happening. We are being persecuted right now, because the momentum of this existential crisis is lingering in the hearts of millions who are still at war with themselves and the church.

One of the things the church has forgotten is compassion, because of her pain. The Lord grieves with those of us who are hurting, but it takes time to heal, and we have forgotten the doctrine of the immanency of the return of Jesus Christ. It's like we have been body checked, and we are winded and are trying to catch our breath. Why? We are living in a dark period of human history. Christian morality is seen by the world as evil. I never though I would ever hear myself saying that but it is true. The darkness comes from those who refuse to believe in Hell and God, therefore they see Christian morality as a burden, and anyone who imposes this on society is evil. Satan is very active in human history right now.

The church sheds a light on this darkness, therefore she is still hated. It is demonic hatred of God and his church that is constantly feeding this darkness. This is Mike.
 

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