If God rose from the dead, then that is all that matters. If He rose from the dead, then you have to accept that He was God's son. (1 Corinthians 15:14-20)
We make things so complicated looks at things like...
- why does God allow bad things to happen?
- what about people who don't hear the gospel, do they go to hell? How is that fair?
- how can all roads not lead to God?
But we must not allow ourselves to get sucked in to all this thinking. It is okay to investigate, but we must not allow these questions to distract us from the truth? IN THE END, IF GOD ROSE FROM THE DEAD, THEN ALL THESE OTHER QUESTIONS ARE JUST DISTRACTIONS!
If we are just an accident, that happened through evolution, then....
1. What is the purpose of life? There is none?
2. How do we have moral understanding of right and wrong? By evolutionary definition, if evolution is true, then we would do whatever we want and wouldn't care about morality. We would just care about getting ahead, getting stronger, being the fittest and surviving at all costs.
3. If this life is all there is, then this is very depressing. There is no hope. I am so thankful for the hope found in Jesus. The hope of purpose here on earth, and hope of eternal life.
If God is not real, then where is there any genuine hope in this world?
I don't understand everything. There is mystery, but there has to be. There has to be because He is the Creator, and I am the created. He is infinite, and I am finite. If I could understand everything, if I could understand all His ways, then that would mean that He and I are on the same level, and if that were true, then that would mean that He isn't God. He can't be God if we are on the same level. Because He is God, there is no way that I will understand everything.
How sad it is for people to be deceived into thinking that they will only follow Jesus once they understand everything. All that matters is whether or not Jesus rose from the dead. Prove that, and you've proved that He is God, and that we can't understand all His ways, but that we must trust Him. If we don't trust and accept Him then He was very clear that we will spend eternity apart from Him because we are choosing to deny Him and the messages of truth and salvation that He gave us.
"To live is Christ, to die is gain" (Phillipians)
Because of this verse, it proves that Jesus has provided the only meaningful hope in the world. You can test this by filling in the blanks to the above verse with what we as people usually find hope in. For example....
To live is to gain money, to die is to lose it all.
To live is health, to die is to die.
To live is serving, to die is gain only if you have Christ (serving is something God calls us to, so it is of Christ)
To live is to win at all costs, to die is those wins don't matter. You can't.take them with you.
