INTRODUCTION
Christianity began as
a spiritual movement fueled by the eye
witness of the miraculous, such as the
overcoming of death, supernatural healings,
and a new Kingdom being established 'on
earth as it is in Heaven!'
An idea alone cannot
split history in two and mark the
measurement of time for the last two
thousand years. It was the undeniable
reality of the impact of Jesus' life on
those He encountered that produced a witness
that far surpassed the impact of some new
ideology.
GREEKS BEARING
GIFTS?
The Greek culture, at
the time of Jesus, still dominated the
thinking of many, even though the Roman
Empire was pre-dominant! Greeks loved the
exchange of ideas and the matching of
various philosophies, with m
inimal
emphasis on absolutes, much the same as
pluralism and relativism does today.
The invasion of the
new spiritual Kingdom that Jesus brought to
earth, complete with its 'cut and dry,'
'black and white,' 'what you see is what you
get' stance, challenged the compromising
morality of the time.
TRUTH PERSONIFIED
People are never
prepared to die for the exchange of ideas.
Life is only considered worth sacrificing
when an idea has been outworked in reality
and becomes a cause! Christ's cause embodied
all truth and righteousness. He not only
stood for the truth, but was the living
Truth, embodied in a man!
That's
the real reason why they killed Him. The
light of His truth was so bright, the world
could not look at Him for too long before it
became painful, in the same way as we cannot
look at the sun for too long with the naked
eye.
A CAUSE WORTH
DEFENDING
Truth is never found
in a compromise; it can only exist in a
cause! Nobody gives their life for ideas
that can be compromised. They only make a
supreme sacrifice for a cause that's worth
defending!
Christianity is not a
religious philosophy - it is a cause!
Philosophy is good for sharing ideas, but a
cause is a position you have to stand for
and defend. If you compromise the truth, you
compromise the cause! The cause of Christ is
the only cause worth dying for that
guarantees life eternal!
