CHRISTIANITY.

  It is often asked, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" To try and answer that question today, I'm going to talk about "Why do Good things happen to bad people". One of the strangest lawsuits in US court history was filed on September 14, 2007. It was filed by Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers. First elected to represent North Omaha's 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, Chambers was successfully re-elected in every ensuing election through 2004. On April 25, 2005, Chambers became Nebraska's longest-serving state senator, having served for more than 35 years. He was seeking to stop evil and injustice in the world, and he actually filed a lawsuit against God. The lawsuit sought a permanent injunction against God's interference in this world. Senator Chambers said of God, "He has allowed certain harmful activities to exist that have caused grave harm to innumerable people in the world." The lawsui...

Proverbs 8:13    (13) The fear of the LORD  is  to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. New King James Version "What does "the fear of the Lord" entail? Another proverb,  Proverbs 9:10 , helps us to understand: "The fear of the L ORD  is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." While  Proverbs 8:13  defines what the fear of the Lord  is ,  Proverbs 9:10  shows what it  produces . Understanding the effect of the fear of the Lord will help us to understand the cause. "This verse uses a Hebraism in which the two clauses are written in parallel. The "fear of the L ORD " in the first clause is linked to "knowledge of the Holy One" in the second, while the "beginning of wisdom" corresponds to "understanding." Most translations hide the fact that the Hebrew word rendered as "Holy One" is actually plural. It refers...

  “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.   But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:   For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.   (Matthew 12:38).     Jesus told them that the only sign He would give was that of the prophet Jonah: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).   Jesus told them point blank that He was going to be in the tomb for three days and for three nights. We now come to the week Jesus was crucified.   “And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his di...

In John 5:24 Jesus says: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” When it comes to being alive or dead, Jesus places people in two categories.   Jesus identifies these two groups of people in the above verse.   The difference between these two groups is that those who are spiritually alive have heard Jesus’ words and believed in the One who sent Him, whereas the latter do not and are spiritually dead.   To understand the verse, it must be understood that Jesus is talking about a person spiritually. Notice that “death” is put before “life” in this verse.   This is not a coincidence.   Since Adam and Eve, all humans have been born spiritually dead.   Physically man is alive at birth and continues to be “physically alive” until he dies.   At that point, according to the Bible, he no longer exists in any form. (Eccles...