"If there is no God, then everything you are, everything you know, everything and everyone you've ever cared for, does not matter.
It means nothing.

The fact that you are happy or unhappy with your life doesn't mean anything. The fact that you're pretty or ugly means nothing. The fact that you're smart or stupid, doesn't mean a thing.

Everyone who's ever cared for you, they mean nothing, and the love they have for you means absolutely nothing.

If there is no God, you have no purpose. You are far worse than an accident or a mistake, you're not even acknowledged. You have no meaning, no calling, no use.
Not only that, but there is no such thing as a mistake. There's no such thing as meaning, or callings, or being of use for anything.

The fact that there are people dying everday from AIDS or violence or starvation does not mean anything.
The fact that you care about those issues means absolutely nothing.

I can hear the retorts already: "It means something now." But no, it doesn't. Because meaning itself is meaningless. When those people have died and gone, they aren't going to mean anything. Their existence will have accomplished nothing. Anything we consider accomplishment is just an illusion.
Even considering anything is meaningless.

Your life is pointless. Meaningless. Useless. You can help people, but help isn't even real. You can love people and be loved back. But love isn't even real. You can exist. But it doesn't matter. Existence doesn't even know you exist.

It doesn't even know that it itself exists. In fact, it could never know it exists. And that doesn't even matter.

Every good deed you've done does not matter. It is meaningless. If there is no God, good and evil do not exist. They are just made-up concepts that do not matter.

So why are you fighting for what you believe in? What does it matter? Who cares if it matters now? If you say that YOU care, well, that doesn't even matter. When your dead and gone, you won't remember your legacy, because you won't exist anymore. People might, but what does that matter after they die and the Earth dies?

The Universe will not care what you think you did that was important. Nothing is important. The Universe does not care. Not only does it not care, but it doesn't even not NOT care. Caring isn't real. Caring is a made-up concept, concocted by evolved upright monkeys, as a device to fool the species into reproducing and protecting itself.

But why? If there is no God, why would that matter? Why would we have the desire to exist and to multiply? Why would survival of the fittest even exist? Who cares if we live or die? Who cares if a species is extinct?
You might think you do, but in reality, you do not.

If there is no God, the question of His existence would not be important. People wouldn't ask. No one would care. It wouldn't matter.

What you are going through right now, yes YOU, means nothing. The fact that you're hurting. The fact that you're happy. The fact that you're in love, or have the best friends in the world. These things are meaningless.
Less than meaningless. Because meaning itself is a made up concept. It doesn't even exist outside of the human mind. The fact that you're a nice person, the fact that you are loyal and honest, has no value. Value itself does not exist.

Your accomplishments do not matter. The work you do to become a better person is pointless. The outcome is meaningless.
Everything you've ever felt, your love, your passions, your desires, your heartaches and happiness, is all a chemical reaction that controls us, and none of it matters.
Every bad thing you've been through, you went through it for NOTHING. YOU SUFFERED IN VAIN.

Someone gets wrongly convicted of a murder and it does not matter. You break your leg and it does not matter. You get promoted and it means absolutely nothing.

All of human existence could be gone in the blink of an eye, and everything we've worked for, everything we've strived for for millenias, will blink into nonexistence, and will never have mattered.
No one will remember. It will have accomplished nothing.

The quest for knowledge means nothing. Spending your life learning does nothing. Going to school is pointless. So you leave behind information for the next generation. So what? Just so they can know it, then die, then never have mattered, even to themselves? Your accomplishment means nothing.

Making good decisions means nothing. Because the outcome of good decisions mean nothing.

Everything you do, everything you say, every breath you take, means nothing.

Are you getting this? Do you hear this? Is it sinking in?

Some might say that they've come to terms with this. And so they lead a life of self-indulgence and self-absorbtion. They'll say, who cares if they're selfish?
But people do care. But why? If there is no God, why would it matter if someone led a selfish life? Why would people even care if they were hurt by it? Why would it even be selfish to be selfish?
Selfishness doesn't even exist. It means nothing.

If you popped into existence by mere chance, you mean nothing. You may as well die, now, because it doesn't even matter if you live. It doesn't even matter if you die. And frankly, it doesn't even matter if you choose one or the other, or don't choose at all.

Depressing, isn't it? Some might say a belief in God exists to avoid this supposed truth.
But then why is it so in our nature to want meaning and purpose, to seek it out and base our lives around this quest if we were just a chance occurrence? So that we'll survive and our species can continue?

But if we are all truly by chance, then why would that even matter? What would be the purpose, the need to survive? Why would it matter if we did or did not? And why should we care?

And how could we even say this is the truth, because if there is no God, truth does not exist.

I say it is part of our nature to care, love, and feel driven for a reason.
And in a world uncreated, there can be no such thing as reason.

However...

If there is a God, you are here for a reason. Your very life happened for a reason. You were not a mistake, you were not by chance. You were carefully crafted and lovingly thought of. You have a calling on your life to make a difference, because it DOES matter.

If there is a God, you are special. All the feelings you feel matter. All the love you have in your life, matters. Your best friend matters. Your mom matters. Your crush, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your husband or wife, they matter. Your dreams, desires, aspirations matter. What you fight for, it matters. Your job matters. Your emotions matter.

The question of God's existence, matters.

You are where you are in your life for a reason.There is a purpose for your pain, your happiness, your troubles, shortcomings, joys and triumphs. You learn lessons for a reason. You go through hard times for a reason.
You feel touched looking at a beautiful sunset for a reason. You have passions and talents for a reason. You belong. You are no accident. You have meaning.

If there is a God.

If we were not created, then everything means nothing. If we were created, everything means something.

I don't know many nonbelievers that can still say confidently that God does not exist after thinking about these things."

http://community.livejournal.com/ljchristians/1407739.html

I was doing my QT a couple of days ago using the Daily Bread, and something made me think. This is from the Sep 9 date, yeah, I'm using the one for next month because I don't know where's the one for this month.

The author, David Roper writes (At least, I think he's the author):

"Whenever we enter frightening circumstances or face furious assaults, we can say with confidence, "Lord, I'll go anywhere with You."

I felt that this was different because most of the time it is said that God would go with us wherever we go, but it's opposite this time, and this should be h ow it's supposed to be like. God is leading me in y life, and I'm supposed to follow. Whom am I, that God should follow me? I think this really puts things back into perspective and it's a reminder that our lives are not our own. We really are very tiny in comparison to everything about God.

It's not much compared to the real videos taken using real video cameras of real people who witnessed the real thing, but it's just a little something I'd like to share with the rest of you. =)




Hi, found some good videos for sermons here. If you guys come across any good ones for teaching purposes, please please tell me! Thanks!





This is what the leaders do during EXCO meeting. ;)






I was really disillusioned with famous Atheist writer Richard Dawkins after doing a simple examination of his claims in the book "The God Delusion". I have seen video clips of him making speeches online and I thought he was definitely an objective person and a responsible writer from the way he carried himself.

But he showed himself not to be through his words. I reproduced 2 segments of his writings for you to check for yourself.

Exhibit 1:

Dawkins alleged that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem. And he quoted Gospel of John (7:42) as claiming that even Jesus' followers don't think Jesus was born in Bethlehem. (See underlined above). Read the Bible passage yourself. It was the Jews at the feast (who did not know his background) who said those words - not his followers!

Exhibit 2:





Look! I found a very intriguing way of explaining the triune nature of God (Father, Son, Spirit), from an online article. Warning: a very long entry with intellectual stuff ahead.

http://www.icr.org/article/2590/

This is arguably the most important doctrine of Christianity—certainly the most distinctive. This does not mean that there are three Gods; there is only one God who created Heaven and Earth and everything in them. The term "God" as used in the Bible most commonly refers to the Father, but the Son and the Holy Spirit are each also recognized as God. This concept is so difficult for many to accept that some have argued that the three divine Persons are not really three distinct individuals but merely three modes in which the one God can express Himself as occasion demands.

But this also is a false invention. There are many accounts of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit speaking to each other, for example. The doctrine of the Trinity is admittedly difficult (in fact impossible) to comprehend fully with our minds, but it is taught so definitely in God's Word that we believe it with our hearts.

Skeptics can deride the Trinity doctrine as mathematically impossible. One plus One plus One does not equal One, but three. Nevertheless, the Bible reveals God to be a Trinity—one God in three Persons. Are we naïve and credulous to believe such a thing?

Well, not really. It is also a remarkable fact that the divine Trinity, the tri-une God, has created a great universe which is itself a trinity, with each of its three components also structured as trinities. This would not necessarily prove that God is a Trinity, but it is a fact that needs explanation. Could God have created it as a model (or type, or analogy) that would help people understand His own Nature, at least in some degree?

Consider: The created universe is actually a tri-universe of Space, Matter, and Time, each permeating and representing the whole. However, the universe is not partly composed of space, partly of matter, and partly of time (like, for example, the three sides of a triangle). A trinity is not a trio or a triad, but a tri-unity, with each part comprising the whole, yet all three required to make the whole. Thus, the universe is all Space, all Time, and all Matter (including energy as a form of matter); in fact, many scientists speak of it as a Space-Matter-Time continuum.

Furthermore, note the parallels between the divine trinity and the tri-universe in terms of the logical order of its three components. Space is the invisible, omnipresent background of everything in the universe. Matter-and-Energy reveal the reality of the universe. Time makes the universe understandable in the events occurring in it. Note that exactly the same sentence will apply if the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit replace the words, Space, Matter, and Time.

Space itself is also a tri-unity, comprised of three dimensions, with each dimension permeating all space. The reality of any portion of space is obtained by multiplying the three dimensions together (the "mathematics of the Trinity" is not 1+1+1=1, but rather 1x1x1=1). Further, Space is identified in the first dimension seen in the second dimension, experienced in the third dimension. The same sentence could be used with Father, Son, and Spirit replacing first, second, and third dimensions.

Similarly, Time is future, present, and past. The future is the unseen source of time, manifest moment-by-moment in the present and understood in the past. Again substitute Father, Son, and Spirit.

Finally, Matter is unseen, omnipresent Energy, manifesting itself in various forms of measurable motion, then experienced in corresponding phenomena. For example, light energy generates light waves, which are experienced in the seeing of light. Sound energy generates sound waves which we experience when we hear sound.

Thus, the physical universe is a great "trinity of trinities," with the inner relationships of each element modeling the relationships of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All of this (as cautioned above) does not prove that God is a Trinity, but it certainly is a remarkable fact. It is an amazing effect, which can at least seemingly be explained on the assumption that God is a tri-une God, and has made His creation to reflect Himself. In fact it is very hard to explain any other way.














Last night me and a few kias went to the Festival of Praise, which is an annual worship conference at the Indoor Stadium, and it was really great. Don Moen and Delirious? were there, singers who compose a lot of the songs we sing in church today. I personally am a big fan of Delirious?. It's strange, during the time leading up to it I was more looking forward to seeing Delirious? live again, but when it was the actual thing, I didn't really notice them as much as I thought I would. It was all about giving God the honour He deserves, and I'm glad it stayed that way.

When I got home and was having my bath, there was just a feeling and knowledge of being so very blessed, of having received so much grace. One of the songs Delirious? sang, 'Take off my shoes' (lyrics on my blog, 31 July entry), has some lines asking God why He called and waited for someone so guilty and fake, like you and me, and how could someone with all of His fame pull us from darkness and call us by name. It's mind-blowing, and when they sang that song it was one of the most poignant, tear-jerking moments of the night for me.

Of course there was also the usual jaw-dropping displays of musical talent; Shaun Kia was wow-ed by the keyboardist in Don Moen's band during the last song 'God is good', and I still think Delirious?'s Stu G is the best guitarist in the world, bar none. These guys are truly gifted by God, and I'm so thankful to Him for putting such people on earth to inspire us. During the last part of 'Did you feel the mountains tremble', the wives and kids of Delirious? came out to jump around the stage to the words "we're gonna dance in the river". The kids' ages ranged from 2 years old to like preteen, altogether more than ten of them (every band member has at least 2 kids on average, the lead singer Martin Smith has five), and they were so super cute.

I bought 'I Could Sing of Your Love Forever; stories, reflections and devotions', a book written by Martin Smith and Stu G, on how their songs came about and the stories behind them. It's just.. whoa. Can see how God has touched all their lives and fueled their passion. In the book there are glimpses of their lowest, most vulnerable moments, like Martin and his wife losing their unborn child, losing a good friend, and being in a car accident, and how God used these to produce some of their most honest, moving songs. I was awed by the hand of God working through all these ordinary people's lives and realised He could do the same for all of us if only we'd say to Him, "Take my life and lead me on".

I can't wait until next year's FOP!

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