... Hint about the creation
Do you really think the universe came from an explosion (big bang theory) that just happened all by itself with no help from anyone?
If the explosion did happen that way, do you think an explosion could make the stars, planets, animals, people and the many other wonderful
things we know of, without any help from anyone? All the explosions that I have ever known about actually destroys things, how can an
explosion that tears things apart actually cause things to be put together in such a complex pattern? But if it did all happen that way,
where did the material that exploded come from? How did it get into outer space? Who put it there? Now with that in mind, where do you think
all these wonderful things came from?
[2]
Explain in your own words what you think the bible is?
HELP
... Hint about the bible
We know the bible is a book so you do not need to just only say that, explain it a little bit. Actually the bible is a book of books, it consists
of 66 books bound together into one book. Did you know the name of the first book is [ Genesis ] and did you know the name of the last book is
[ Revelation ]? Tell me who you think wrote (the author) those 66 books. Was it a bunch of people who got together at church? Was it the kings and
queens of a long time ago? Was it some hustlers who wanted to trick us into doing what they want us to do so they could take our money? Was it some
people called prophets who received messages from God? You tell me what you think.
[3]
Have you ever read or studied the bible, if so what is your favorite bible story?
HELP
... Hint about bible stories
Did you ever read about or hear about the story of the young boy named David who killed a terrible giant nameed Goliath, whom the whole army
was terribly afraid of? David killed that giant with a sling shot without any help from the army? You can read about it in the book called
1st Samuel in the bible. You will find the story in chapter 17 of that book. Do you think anyone helped him? Do you think maybe God helped
him? If so, do you think God can help you solve your problems?
There are many other wonderful stories in the bible.
[4]
Have you ever heard of Moses? If so explain in your own words who Moses is and what he did for the people of Israel thousands of years ago.
HELP
... Hint about Moses
How about the great miracles performed by moses such as splitting open the red sea (a very large body of water) so that the millions of people,
Jews, who had been slaves in Egypt for four hundred years, walked through the middle of the sea on dry land. When the last one had crossed over, the sea
closed back up again. WOW! You can read about this miracle in the 14th chapter of the book of Exodus, in the bible. Did you see the movie, 'Prince of
Egypt'? It is about the story of Moses. Moses grew up as a prince who was adopted into the Pharoar's family while still a baby. You can read all about
the birth and life of Moses in Exodus, chapter 2 of the bible.
[5]
Explain in your own words who God is.
HELP
... Hint who God is
Somebody had to make (create) all the things in nature, right? ... Somebody had to create the oceans ... somebody had to create the air we breathe and
somebody had to create your parents and their parents and their parents, right? ... Guess who did all of that ... it was God.
God is a spirit or ghost as spirits are sometimes called ... He is not the ghost of a dead person ... God is a live spirit and always will be alive ... He cannot die ...
Everything we can see, touch, smell, feel or hear, all comes from God ... He is the source of all things.
[6]
Would you rather live where everybody is trying to rob you or live where everybody is trying to help you?
HELP
... Hint about where to live
If you live in God's home place (heaven), everyone will be helping you, no one wants to take anything from you or hurt you in any way. No one will ever bully
you and you will never have another tummy ache. You will never need to cry again because something is going wrong. It is a good place. You know here on this
earth there are lots of problems, people get hurt, people get killed, people die, and etc. There is another place called hell and the goings on there are much
worse than anything you see here on earth. When we die we go to either heaven (God's home) or hell (the devil's home). Tell me which place you would
rather live.
[7]
If you said you want to live where everyone wants to help you (in heaven), what do you think must be done to get you a ticket to heaven?
HELP
... Hint about living in heaven
Heaven is a place where nothing bad (sin) exists. All of us humans have something bad about us even if it is just one bad thought. If you ever had even one
bad thought heaven will not tolerate you. The bad thoughts and bad things you did, rotted your spirit. We have all, everyone of us, with no execeptions, have
done many wrong things in the eyes of God and therefore we have to be cleaned up (cleansed) before we die or else hell is the only place we can go to when we
die and you should not want to go there. How we get cleaned up will be discussed later.
[8]
God has a plan that can bring sinful people like you and me to heaven, in your own words, what is that plan?
HELP
... Hint about God's plan of salvation
The plan is the plan of salvation. Salvation means saving us from the dirty things (sins) that we have done and those that we will do later on while living
here on this earth. When we die it is too late to be saved, if we are not saved while we still live then when we die we must go to hell with the devil.
Sin is serious business with God. Did you know God and sin cannot be in the same place at the same time. Whatever or whomever is sinful would burn up in
the presence of God. Sin is so serious it requires a HUGE, HUGE sacrifice. This sacrifice requires a sinless human to be killed. But there are
no human beings that do not have any sin. Even little new born babies have sin, they came from their parents so they are born with the sins of their parents
tainting them. So you see there is not even one sinless human being on this planet. Hmmmm, looks like we have a HUGE, HUGE problem that is blocking us from
going to heaven. A sinless person's life must be sacrificed, meaning he/she must die and shed their blood for the rest of us but since there is no one like
that, then it looks like we are just lost and must go to hell when we die. But no problem is too big for God to solve.
God loves us too much to let that happen to all of his children (all humans), so He decided to save some of us. He saves everyone who will accept his plan of
salvation. But where will the person with no sin come from, we all have sinned. Well, gusse what? God placed a person here on this earth who is without any sin,
who never had one bad thought about anybody or anything, his name is Jesus. I'll bet you have already heard of him. He did not have ANY sin
and he died voluntarily on a cross of crufixion, where his blood was shed (spilled) to pay for the sins commited by you and me. But, we do not have to accept
that sacrifice and if we do not accept it we will go to hell when we die.
[9]
What must we do to accept this plan of salvation?
HELP
... Hint about accepting salvation
We must decide that we do not like sin or living sinful lives. We must
pray (talk) to the Lord and ask him to forgive us for all of our sins,
and He will forgive us. He wants to help us, remember the plan of salvation is his plan not ours. So we must repent (stop sinning) but we
cannot do this by ourselves because our nature we were born with is sinful, but the Lord will help us and give us the power to stop sinning. But it will take time,
it will
not happen overnight. Hopefully it will not take too much time. We must accept the Lord Jesus who died for us, as our Lord and Master. This means we start to
live for him and no longer live selfishly, trying to get every thing for ourselves or to get our own way about everything. We must love the way
He is and want to be just like him.
[10]
Explain in your own words how we can get to know Jesus, so we can become like him.
HELP
... Hint about how to know Jesus
We need to read the bible with the help and direction of someone who is a
good Christian (follower of Jesus Christ) and who is knowledgeable of the bible. Jesus is the
Word of God in reality. All the words in the entire bible reflect the Words of Jesus. We also need to pray (talk to the Lord)
asking his help
and guidance. And
we need to hook up with other Christian people and do not hang out with sinful people, even if the sinful ones happen to be your old buddies, you have
to let
them go and find new Christian friends.