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Wednesday, December 19, 2007?
Why people don't believe in Jesus (part 2)

The life and ministry of Jesus

About 2000 years ago a man named Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in the land of Israel. He was unique. He was fully God and yet fully human. God allowed himself to be born as a man so that he could live and suffer among us, to serve as the perfect atonement for sin, and to offer salvation to anyone who believes.His birth, mission, death and resurrection were foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament of the Bible and revealed to us in the New Testament.He lived among his fellow Jews during a time when the boundaries of the Roman Empire included the land of Israel. He preached and performed miracles for three-and-a-half years until he was crucified by the Romans. He died on a wooden cross and was buried in a tomb.But his life did not end in death. Jesus Christ was resurrected. And because he was perfect, he is able to open the doors to the Kingdom of God. And because he was sinless, he is able to forgive us our sins so that we too can be accepted into the Kingdom of God.Jesus explains this in a passage of the Bible called John 3:16 when he said: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

There are about 34 miracles performed by Jesus recorded in the 4 gospel

1. Changing water into wine (John 2:1-11)
2. Healing of the royal official's son (John 4:46-54)
3. Healing of the Capernaum demoniac (Mark 1:21-28, Luke 4:33-37)
4. Healing of Peter's mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:29-31, Luke 4:38-39)
5. Catching a large number of fish (Luke 5:3-10)
6. Healing a leper (Matthew 8:1-3, Mark 1:40-42)
7. Healing a centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10)
8. Healing a paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 5:18-26)
9. Healing a withered hand (Matthew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6)
10. Raising a widow's son (Luke 7:11-17)
11. Calming the stormy sea (Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25)
12. Healing the Gerasene demoniac (Matthew 8:28-32, Mark 5:1-13, Luke 8 26-33)
13. Healing a woman with internal bleeding (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48)
14. Raising Jairus' daughter (Matthew 9:18-19, 23-25; Mark 5:22-24, 35-43; Luke 8:41-42, 49-56)
15. Healing two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31)
16. Healing a mute demoniac (Matthew 9:32-33)
17. Healing a 38 year invalid (John 5:5-17)
18. Feeding 5000 men and their families (Matthew 14:16-21, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:12-17, John 6:5-14)
19. Walking on water (Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52, John 6:16-21)
20. Healing a demoniac girl (Matthew 15:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)
21. Healing a deaf man with a speech impediment (Mark 7:31-37)
22. Feeding the 4000 men and their families (Matthew 15:29-39, Mark 8:1-10)
23. Healing a blind man (Mark 8:22-26)
24. Healing a man born blind (John 9:1-41)
25. Healing a demoniac boy (Matthew 17:14-21, Mark 9:17-29, Luke 9:37-43)
26. Catching a fish with a coin in its mouth (Matthew 17:24-27)
27. Healing a blind and mute demoniac (Matthew 12:22, Luke 11:14)
28. Healing a woman with an 18 year infirmity (Luke 13:10-13)
29. Healing a man with dropsy (Luke 14:1-6)
30. Healing 10 lepers (Luke 17:11-19)
31. Raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44)
32. Healing Bartimaeus of blindness (Mark 10:46-52)
33. Restoring a severed ear (Luke 22:45-54)
34. Catching a great number of fish (John 21:4-11)

During Jesus 3 ½ years of ministry, He teach (The parables), fellowship, heals, help the poor and minister to people. The bible clearly recorded every important word that He said. He performed 34 miracles! He can do that because He is God. But still until today there is still millions of people around the world don’t believe in Jesus. Ok then… just imagine Jesus is not God. That means all the works that He did in the bible and the words He said is fake.

If that is the case then Jesus will be either a...
1. Lunatic (Siao kia)
2. Big fat liar

If he is a lunatic…

A lunatic is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy.

· Lunatic will not say something that allow people think and study until today! You go to mental hospital today; do you believe every word that the patient said? I doubt so

· Based on the definition of lunatic, will people become a follower of one who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish and unpredictable?

· Whenever Jesus goes, there will be a great multitude following Him. There is a person in the bible who wants to see Jesus. But he was so short among the crown so he climbs up all the way to the top of the trees to just have a look at Jesus. Will you do that to the extend to see a lunatic?

· Lastly if Jesus was a lunatic, will the Roman kill Him? Will the scribes and Pharisees debate with a lunatic person? Will people wanting to just touch His clothes to get healing? Or will a lunatic fast for 40 days?

I mean the decision is yours whether to believe or not

But what if Jesus is not a lunatic then He must be the greatest liar ever live on earth!

A liar is simply meaning a person who tells lies.

Here are some examples

- There will be no Christmas and Easter day
- Sermon on the mount is just some bed time story
- All the parables are fairy tales
- Jesus cheated the trust of all His disciple
- All the healing and miracle are magic. We know that all magic are illusion (Jesus are the ancient David Copperfield and Criss Angel)
- All the prophecies are rubbish. Jesus make it up his own
- Jesus not only a liar in His word but also cheat people of money.
- Jesus then will be a flaky person

The list just goes on and on if Jesus really is a liar. But do you think He is a liar? Will a liar died for something that is not truth? Jesus would not go to the cross and died for something he did not committed if He is a liar. When He is capture by the Roman soldiers, He can just confess that everything He did was a lie but He did not. He went on to the Cross to die for us. So you can judge for yourself.

Let’s imagine again. If He is neither a lunatic nor a liar then whatever thing He said, did and promised were all real! Then He is really the one and only true God!

Last part to be continue....


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