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  The Church teaches that through original sin that all of humanity are born sinners. Through baptism we are freed from Original sin, but when we sin gravely after baptism we need to go to confession to restore us to the grace of Justification. We are justified through faith by God by the merit of Jesus Christ dying on the cross, freely by God’s grace. To believe in Jesus and to trust him for salvation means that he is your Lord and Saviour. Consequently, to not trust Jesus for your salvation means that you are living without faith and are not justified. To be reconciled to God, you must be willing to trust Jesus, and what he did for you on the cross, and you must be willing to receive the grace of Justification back into your life. When we repent, we are asking God to restore us to Himself and ultimately to the church as well. We receive this forgiveness through faith, and our trust in the Church that Jesus established. It is through what Jesus has done for us on the cross that we...

  In C.C. 1033 of the Roman Catholic catechism the Church teaches that we cannot be united with God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbour, or against ourselves. If we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. To die in mortal sin, without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him forever, by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from God and the blessed is called hell.   While some cannot be convinced against their will that hell exists, conscience dictates to us that there is something beyond the grave. What waits for us is our reward or punishment for our lives lived out here on the earth. To deny this teaching of the Church is to deny the reality of sin, and what God had to do to remedy this problem. To deny hell, is to deny the need for forgiveness by the death and resurrection of Christ, which is to deny the foundation of our faith, and the foundation of t...

  Psalm 46:10  He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;     I will be exalted among the nations,     I will be exalted in the earth.” God lives just behind the noise. Isn’t this true? Our minds are so filled with static sometimes, the static of worry, the static of always feeling we have to do something to feel valued, the static of peer pressure, the static of feeling valueless. The static of business, the static of busyness, the static of wanting to be heard, the static of not being heard. There are many things that occupy the mind, and try to prevent us from being at rest and even feeling the peace and presence of God! Yes God exists, and one place he exists is in the quiet. Psalm 46:10 says “Be still and know that I am God.” We need to learn how to quiet our minds from worry and even panic, and to do this sometimes we need to learn to still our bodies.  When we sleep, our bodies are still, the only activity our minds engage i...

What holds most people in bondage while they are suffering is the lack of faith that their suffering will someday end. It is fear, and this is justifiable because when we lack clarity, we lack peace of mind. It is the fear of suffering and the fear some experience in suffering that fails to help us see the temporary nature of all suffering for those who have faith. Trying to understand why we suffer sometimes doesn't help, there is that saying that there is always light at the end of the tunnel, and that is why we can hope. In 1 Peter 5:10 it reads,  " And  after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace,  who has called you to his  eternal glory in Christ, will himself  restore,  confirm, strengthen, and establish you." Peter reminds the church that we are not in heaven yet, he tells the church to humble themselves and to cast their anxieties on Jesus. He knows that while we are still here we will suffer but promises them that God himself will...

  The end of life is not really the end, but the beginning of eternity. What we have done on earth will be judged, and all the secrets of our hearts will be revealed. While we live this life, we have no way of seeing into a person’s heart, but when someone stands before God, He sees it all. We will have to give an account of our lives after we die, and there is no real way to be prepared for it unless we love and know God now. God is a forgiving God, and it is through Jesus that our sins are forgiven.   God knows that we can’t know everything here on earth, but He has revealed His truth to us. It doesn’t matter the degree to which we believed the truth, what matters is did we live it? Only God can judge us to the extent to which we lived the truth, so in a real sense our judgment is the same, with varying degrees to which we are rewarded or punished. Our deeds don’t save us, it is our faith that God will look at in order to really determine if we truly believed the truth or no...

  Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, history is constantly moving forwards. We are all collectively heading towards the end of time, and the consummation of the ages, which will result in a new world, and a new heavens, (Revelation 21). But does the not so old saying that “history repeats itself” or in the words of philosopher  George Santayana (1863—1952) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” ( The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense.  Scribner’s, 1905: 284) .  What do these words mean in the modern era of the 21st Century? Because Christians believe history is progressive, based principally of the resurrection of the Saviour, what does the saying that ‘history will repeat itself’ mean in the Common Era? First, we need to acknowledge that we all learn from history. Society learns valuable lessons from our past, but if we as a society stop applying those lessons to our current society, we are condemned to repeat what we failed t...

  Mankind has forgotten the truth, and this is why most of the world is declining morally. The Holy Spirit lives on this planet, but the Bible teaches that mankind has an eternal choice to accept or reject the truth! People have become selfish and have placed greed and money above right living, and the search for God. When people forget God, and suppress His existence, humankind enters an existential crisis and looses it’s identity. Moral decline happened in the times of Noah, and God sent a worldwide flood to destroy mankind. Apart from God, human beings have no real goodness or righteousness in themselves.   When people try to be good apart from belief in God, the source of all goodness they are relying on their own fallen human natures to be in right standing in God’s sight. Apart from the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind has no forgiveness. When religion is suppressed mankind becomes their own god, and becomes an idolatrous people. Idolatry is not just worshiping idols, but it ...