Welcome to my page about faith written for modern 21th century people who are open-minded enough to ponder about the
Origin of Life and its purpose. Evidence will be presented for the existence and need for a Creator. Personal evidence,
scientific evidence as well as Biblical evidence, see the navigation menu at the right of this page.
Enjoy the reading...
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Fact or Delusion?
In case you are not familiar with the Biblical story, in a nutshell: God came down to us in the human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago in Israel. He healed the sick, raised the death, showed us God's loving character, learned us a whole new set of doctrines, the doctrine of love and forgiveness. For that reasons He was killed notable by the religious leaders of that time. But since Jesus as Son of God lived a sinless life death had no power over Him and He resurrected 3 days later from the grave showing Himself alive, first to His closest friends (the 12 apostles) and later to 500 other people as well.
This is the heart of Christianity. No Jesus, no Christianity. No risen Christ, no forgiveness. No forgiveness, no chance in afterlife facing God on Judgement Day.
From medical science we know that it is impossible to come back from death. Not one single case in medical science has been recorded, yet there is a lot to say about the truthfulness of the resurrection story of Jesus Christ by simple reasoning.
Fact-1: No sane scholar will deny the fact there once lived a real person named Jesus Christ. Among the scientific community there is a general consensus about the historical figure Jesus Christ, even by the strongest opponents of Christianity, among them world-famous scientist Richard Dawkins to name a somebody.
Fact-2: Also, there is no historical doubt 11 of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ died a violent death because of their faith in Jesus Christ and His resurrection from death, it's all well recorded on the Wikipedia. So these people are real historical figures as well.
So what we actually have here are 11 people who knew the truth, that Jesus was resurrected, or not. Now, if the resurrection of Jesus was just another conspiracy or an invention of their own minds they hasty would retract everything when being threatened with dead and live instead. Nobody wants to die for a deliberate lie, or? But no, all 11 did not give up their faith and died a cruel martyr death.
So if the story of Jesus is a lie then we have 11 people who willfully created a lie and then died for that lie. Only completely mad people do such things, no sane person would. If the resurrection is a deliberate lie we have a case of 11 mad people spread out over 11 different places of the world who let themselves slaughtered for a lie. No mass hysteria such as in Jones Town. 11 isolated cases of madness.
The question to answer is as follows: find in history a similar case. Throughout history find a case of 11 mad people that independent of each other died for the same lie. My bet, you will not find it. One will find the isolated stories of 1 madman only, maybe 2 mad people, but never ever 11.
Care to explain?
Using Occam's razor what's the simplest answer?
But wait a minute.... isn't history not full of religious fanatics who gave their lives for their faith? Yes, it is. We all have withnessed the terrible events of 9/11 and saw the killing of about 3000 innocent souls live on our television because 19 terrorists believed in something. But.... there is a big difference and it's crucial to understand, those people believed that what they were doing was the truth. Would they also have done so if they knew it was a lie?
In here lies the exact difference between such comparisons, the apostles knew the truth about Jesus and if the resurrection story was a lie they would never have given their lives.
Israel
Israel in the Bible versus History and your local newspaper, what do they have in common?
Short answer: they match.
It is often said, if you want proof of God, compare the story of Israel with History and nowadays political developments. Let's examine some of the astonishing predictions made 2000-2500 year ago by various authors concerning Israel and ask yourself the question how likely it is that various ancient people could fantasize such a story and proven right thousands of years later.
Deuteronomy 28:64-67 - Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods - gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!" - because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
Written down approximately 3500 year ago by Moses and fulfilled 1500-1600 year later when the Romans destructed Jerusalem in AD 70 also known as the start of the Jewish Diaspora, the scattering of the Jews among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other starts here.
Anti-Semitism
Why is the World so obsessed about Jews?
Short answer: because Deuteronomy 28 says so.
Let's examine the second part of the prediction made in Deuteronomy 28
Deuteronomy 28:65-67 - Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!" - because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
Things to ponder about:Why is it that even in the 21th Century in some parts of the World anti-semitism is still present and even flourishes?
Do you see the matching pattern with Deuteronomy 28? Ever since the Jews crucified Jesus Christ while scattered among the world Jews have lived their lives in fear or as verse 66 has put it: You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
Even today Jews around the Globe are not safe, see the report on Global Rising Anti-Semitism, their sin: they are Jews. The World's madness and obsession with Jews has no limits.
It's all predicted 3500 years ago and it still continues today in our 21th century, shameless racism.
1948
Israel arises from the dust.
Let's move to a whole series of astonishing and verifiable predictions made about 2500 years ago, the rebirth of Israel in 1948 after 1900 years of exile!
Jeremiah 29:14 - I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the LORD, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.
Jeremiah 32:37 - I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath;
(see Deuteronomy 28) I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.
More:
Jeremiah 23:3
Ezekiel 11:17
Ezekiel 20:34
The year 1948 announced 2500 years ago.
And now for the questions:
God promised the newborn Israel safety and that they never would be taken again. Israel survived 4 wars in which it had to fight for its existence. In 1948 immediately following the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian, and Lebanese forces invaded the newly formed state on all fronts. Israel was victorious despite the superior numbers of the attackers. 4 times lucky or divine protection?
You pick.... but you can't deny the accuracy of that 3500 year old Book and its trustworthy predictions.
Enjoy the reading...
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Fact or Delusion?
In case you are not familiar with the Biblical story, in a nutshell: God came down to us in the human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago in Israel. He healed the sick, raised the death, showed us God's loving character, learned us a whole new set of doctrines, the doctrine of love and forgiveness. For that reasons He was killed notable by the religious leaders of that time. But since Jesus as Son of God lived a sinless life death had no power over Him and He resurrected 3 days later from the grave showing Himself alive, first to His closest friends (the 12 apostles) and later to 500 other people as well.
This is the heart of Christianity. No Jesus, no Christianity. No risen Christ, no forgiveness. No forgiveness, no chance in afterlife facing God on Judgement Day.
From medical science we know that it is impossible to come back from death. Not one single case in medical science has been recorded, yet there is a lot to say about the truthfulness of the resurrection story of Jesus Christ by simple reasoning.
Fact-1: No sane scholar will deny the fact there once lived a real person named Jesus Christ. Among the scientific community there is a general consensus about the historical figure Jesus Christ, even by the strongest opponents of Christianity, among them world-famous scientist Richard Dawkins to name a somebody.
Fact-2: Also, there is no historical doubt 11 of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ died a violent death because of their faith in Jesus Christ and His resurrection from death, it's all well recorded on the Wikipedia. So these people are real historical figures as well.
So what we actually have here are 11 people who knew the truth, that Jesus was resurrected, or not. Now, if the resurrection of Jesus was just another conspiracy or an invention of their own minds they hasty would retract everything when being threatened with dead and live instead. Nobody wants to die for a deliberate lie, or? But no, all 11 did not give up their faith and died a cruel martyr death.
So if the story of Jesus is a lie then we have 11 people who willfully created a lie and then died for that lie. Only completely mad people do such things, no sane person would. If the resurrection is a deliberate lie we have a case of 11 mad people spread out over 11 different places of the world who let themselves slaughtered for a lie. No mass hysteria such as in Jones Town. 11 isolated cases of madness.
The question to answer is as follows: find in history a similar case. Throughout history find a case of 11 mad people that independent of each other died for the same lie. My bet, you will not find it. One will find the isolated stories of 1 madman only, maybe 2 mad people, but never ever 11.
Care to explain?
Using Occam's razor what's the simplest answer?
But wait a minute.... isn't history not full of religious fanatics who gave their lives for their faith? Yes, it is. We all have withnessed the terrible events of 9/11 and saw the killing of about 3000 innocent souls live on our television because 19 terrorists believed in something. But.... there is a big difference and it's crucial to understand, those people believed that what they were doing was the truth. Would they also have done so if they knew it was a lie?
In here lies the exact difference between such comparisons, the apostles knew the truth about Jesus and if the resurrection story was a lie they would never have given their lives.
Israel
Israel in the Bible versus History and your local newspaper, what do they have in common?
Short answer: they match.
It is often said, if you want proof of God, compare the story of Israel with History and nowadays political developments. Let's examine some of the astonishing predictions made 2000-2500 year ago by various authors concerning Israel and ask yourself the question how likely it is that various ancient people could fantasize such a story and proven right thousands of years later.
Deuteronomy 28:64-67 - Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods - gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!" - because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
Written down approximately 3500 year ago by Moses and fulfilled 1500-1600 year later when the Romans destructed Jerusalem in AD 70 also known as the start of the Jewish Diaspora, the scattering of the Jews among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other starts here.
Questions that demand a good answer:
- Can you mention throughout history any former existing nation or culture that has been scattered among the world as much as the Jewish people ?
- Can you mention throughout history any former existing nation or culture that has been scattered among the world as much as the Jewish people and moreover has it recorded in great detail as a prediction written down 3500 years ago ?
- Do you think the timing of the fulfillment of the Deuteronomy 28:64 prediction took place in AD 70 (just 40 years after the Jews crucified Jesus Christ) was an accident or is the timing related to the last drop of God's inexhaustible patience with the sins of Israel that God set the whole series of (conditional!) curses written down in Deuteronomy 28 in motion more likely? Why not in 500 BC or 1200 AD, why just 40 years after the Jews killed the Most Precious God had?, why in that period? Another coincidence ?
Anti-Semitism
Why is the World so obsessed about Jews?
Short answer: because Deuteronomy 28 says so.
Let's examine the second part of the prediction made in Deuteronomy 28
Deuteronomy 28:65-67 - Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!" - because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
Things to ponder about:
- Can you mention throughout history any race or culture that has been hated and persecuted (with as absolute low-point the Nazi Holocaust) as much as the Jews ?
AD 70-1200
AD 1200-1800
AD 1800-1946
- Recent video of leading Islamic figures about Jews.
- A racist animation on Iranian television.
- Current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the destruction of Israel.
- Report on Global Anti-Semitism.
- The Holocuast denial conference of december 2006 held in Iran under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- In October 2002 the Egyptian state television broadcasted an 41 part drama serie based on the anti-semitic The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Egypt's Information Minister Safwat El-Sherif even dared to say that the series "contains no anti-semitic material".
Do you see the matching pattern with Deuteronomy 28? Ever since the Jews crucified Jesus Christ while scattered among the world Jews have lived their lives in fear or as verse 66 has put it: You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
Even today Jews around the Globe are not safe, see the report on Global Rising Anti-Semitism, their sin: they are Jews. The World's madness and obsession with Jews has no limits.
It's all predicted 3500 years ago and it still continues today in our 21th century, shameless racism.
1948
Israel arises from the dust.
Let's move to a whole series of astonishing and verifiable predictions made about 2500 years ago, the rebirth of Israel in 1948 after 1900 years of exile!
The year 1948 announced 2500 years ago.
And now for the questions:
Also to ponder about:
- Do you know any other group of people that has survived so many centuries of worldwide dispersion and managed to preserve their ancient culture, their ancient religion and their ancient language?
Answer: None.
- What other group of people, after enduring 19 centuries of exile, has been able to return in large numbers to their ancient homeland and even reclaim sovereignty over a significant portion of it?
Answer: None. Only the Jews.
- What other group or nation had prophets who said that their people would be exiled and scattered worldwide, and that they would remain a distinct, viable group of people, and that they would one day return to their ancient homeland and reclaim it as their own land?
Answer: None. Only the Jews.
God promised the newborn Israel safety and that they never would be taken again. Israel survived 4 wars in which it had to fight for its existence. In 1948 immediately following the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian, and Lebanese forces invaded the newly formed state on all fronts. Israel was victorious despite the superior numbers of the attackers. 4 times lucky or divine protection?
You pick.... but you can't deny the accuracy of that 3500 year old Book and its trustworthy predictions.