Start praying before every meal, even if you just think it, even if you don’t close your eyes, to give God thanks for your food. As a child I was taught, “God is great. God is Good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen.” As a child I also learned this prayer of thanks. Adapt it to whichever meal you are giving thanks for, and if you are alone or in a group. I thank you Heavenly Father for…
You will need to start praying to God. Jesus prayed to God the Father who we tend to address as our Heavenly Father in prayer, or God, or Lord, or Lord God. You should feel remorse for your past sins and ask God for forgiveness of all of your sins, and with commitment, He will forgive you. If you ask forgiveness for a sexual sin, adultery, and then a week later you commit adultery again, your forgiveness from the week…
Anyone should be able to change their attitudes and make adjustments to better orient themselves from a worldly way of thinking to that of a Christian. It’s not uncommon to have a myriad of corruptions that sully our character, and the goal would be to have no corruptions in the end. The sooner you can self-analyze and correct course, the better. We Americans have a tendency to be self-centered. Look at being more open and more giving. When you start…
If you’re new to the site, here you’ll find Christianity and reality examined in light of the truth that there is proof for God. Data Point One is really quite simple, and quite believable. If you go click on Data Point One and then at the bottom click Start From the Beginning, that will walk you through things that you’ve likely never been told, or yourself grasped, about reality. Following on from that, this post begins to walk you through…
Yes, God basically loves all Humans. God forms the Human soul in the mother’s womb, and that soul is made immortal, joined with a mortal body. He wants us to be saved out of the clutches of evil’s designs on seeing souls die and be cast into hell forever. Evil in its war against Good would want the truth criminalized if possible. Evil in its war against Humanity would want people to choose evil and corruption instead of Goodness and…
I feel that I got lucky with the following Bible, The New Catholic Answer Bible (2011). It is in understandable English. It also features sections that justify the Catholic Church’s teachings by pointing to scripture. It is a “New American Bible” [NAB] translation, and personally the translation of Genesis 1:8 speaks to the quality. It states God created the dome and called it “sky”. Various other translations don’t quite nail it in my opinion. The official Catholic church translation was…
Not every religion or variation of Christianity is equal in the sight of God, who holds every truth. Generally, the closest church to your home is the right church, with the exceptions noted in the previous post. Don’t go to a church like “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: The Mormons”. If you were raised Catholic or are a former or fallen away Catholic, you should return to a Catholic church and arrange a…
Data Point One points us back to the truth of Jesus, in that He is the Son of God as the Bible says He is. In the Hebrew language of Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.”, the word for God is plural. So in the Trinitarian theology, what the fathers of the Church have established through scripture and reasoning is that the three persons of God, three in one, always existed and were present…
In previous posts it’s been explained that people have free will, and the thesis is that this planet is the only place in Creation where evil exists. This is because Earth’s purpose is for getting down to replacing fallen angels with Humans who have learned all about good and evil and rejected evil and corruption. It’s here that the problem of evil is getting solved. This should help to explain why there is so much bad in the world. Some…
In the bigger picture, evil is at war with God, and evil is at war with Humanity. Over Human history it’s been the devil’s strategy to try to get in the way of God’s plans. In the ancient history described in the Old Testament, the devil and his fallen angels had gone into nations around Israel and set up ‘false gods’ and incorrect ways of living and incorrect ways of worship. They’ve sought to introduce errors or attack the truth….