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Leonard Knight has constructed his biblical opus in the southeastern corner of California (near Niland)....it is a very strange place...Leonard is a strange man...but perhaps the excess of religious fervor makes for some interesting images.
To read about Leonard, Salvation Mountain and Slab City go here:
www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CANILsalv.html
From the recent fabulous road trip through the southeast corner of California with the equally fabulous Qua
Christian Song | God Is Love | gospel music videos | Gospel hymn | "Only the Creator Takes Pity on This Mankind"
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Introduction
Only the Creator Takes Pity on This Mankind
Only the Creator shares with mankind an unbroken bond of mercy and love.
Only He cherishes all of His creation, all of His creation.
His every thought, always for the good of mankind.
His every emotion is intertwined with their existence.
The expression of what He is and has is all for mankind.
It’s all for the sake of mankind.
Deep within His heart, all of man’s actions He feels.
Man’s transgressions awaken His just wrath and sorrow.
But man’s repentance makes Him forgive, man’s repentance makes Him delight.
He’s rushing around always, He’s everywhere at all times.
His every emotion, He dedicates—every second of His life,
and He’s offering every bit of His life without a word.
It’s all for the sake of mankind.
He knows not how to pity His own life, but cherishes mankind.
With His hands He’s fashioned this miracle of mankind.
Compassion and tolerance He bestows, without condition or thought of reward,
that mankind may live on under His gaze,
that one day, they may submit and grant that He is the One who nourishes man,
and grant that He is the One. Ah ...
He supplies the life of creation, life of all creation, life of all creation.
His every thought, always, for the good of mankind.
His every emotion is intertwined with their existence.
The expression of what He is and has is all for mankind.
It’s all for the sake of mankind. It’s all for the sake of mankind.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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praise and worship music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries! Watch Gospel Video Now.
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the first thing i have to say about leonard knight is that he is possibly the purest soul i have ever met. there isn't an ounce of negative energy or hate in this man's body. i have visited salvation mountain several times over the years and i'm constantly baffled by this man's hard work and heart of gold. my love for this place is surprising considering my strong resentment of christianity, and religion in general. my main bouts with tolerating christianity are the constant complications, contradictions, and pick-n-choose betrayals of scripture by modern-day followers, alongside the seemingly never-ending stream of hate it produces. leonard, on the other hand, seems to have a similar view, and may have the purest, most original take on christianity that i have come across - one of uncomplicated love and faith in the good works of his god and people. he has laboriously created a psychedelic wonderland and work of art that would be utterly amazing even for a young, healthy person, and all without a tint of pride or ego. for what its worth, i can only imagine what the world would be like if more people approached religion like this man, or had his unbeatable love.
A REMARKABLE place...
Niland, California.
Salton Sea road trip, May, 2016.
Salvation Mountain is located near Slab City (subject of a future post) in Niland California. Leonard Knight made this his life's work.
More on Salvation Mountain can be found here: www.salvationmountain.us and here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_Mountain
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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praise and worship music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries! Watch Gospel Video Now.
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God's Utterance "God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself I" (Part Two)
Introduction
God’s word in this video are from the book “The Word Appears in the Flesh”.
The content of this video:
A. Adam and Eve
1. God’s Command to Adam
2. God Creates Eve
3. (Gen 3:20-21) And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. To Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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A Hymn of God's words
How Does One Enter Into the True Prayer
During prayer your heart must
be at peace before God,
your heart must be sincere.
Truly commune when you pray to God.
Don't cheat God with words
pleasing to the ear.
So your heart will be quiet before God.
And in the environments
arranged for you,
you will then know yourself
and hate yourself.
You will hate yourself
and forsake yourself.
So you'll have
normal relations with God,
and become someone who truly
loves, loves God, loves, loves God,
become someone who truly
loves, loves God.
Prayer must surround
what God will do today.
Ask for greater illumination,
bring your state and troubles
before God
and speak to Him your resolution.
So your heart will be quiet before God.
And in the environments
arranged for you,
you will then know yourself
and hate yourself.
You will hate yourself
and forsake yourself.
So you'll have
normal relations with God,
and become someone who truly
loves, loves God, loves, loves God,
become someone who truly
loves, loves God.
Prayer is not to follow procedure
but to seek God with your sincerity.
Pray for God to protect your heart.
Ask for God to protect your heart.
So your heart will be quiet before God.
And in the environments
arranged for you,
you will then know yourself
and hate yourself.
You will hate yourself
and forsake yourself.
So you'll have
normal relations with God,
and become someone who truly
loves, loves God, loves, loves God,
become someone who truly
loves, loves God.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical
documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical
documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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Walk in the Love of God l Gospel Movie "Mission of Love" | God Is Love
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Li Mo believed in Jesus from childhood. When she was 16, she became a coworker of the house church and worked for the Lord zealously. However, the dissension in the church escalated and the believers’ faith and love became cold increasingly. The desolate scene made her fall into the distress and perplexity she had never had before. In 1999, she was fortunate to hear Almighty God’s gospel of the last days and finally met the Lord! She joyfully told the good news to the brothers and sisters who were still eagerly expecting the Lord’s coming in religion. Unexpectedly, she was slandered, insulted, driven away, beaten and abused…. In those years, she went to many places to preach the gospel, such as many counties and cities in Hebei Province and Sichuan Province. During that time, she underwent many persecutions from the religious world. Although she suffered a lot and ever became weak and passive, with Almighty God's word leading her and God’s love encouraging her, she didn’t fear hardships and difficulties and went forward bravely. In such experience of sufferings, she saw clearly the religious world’s substance of being hostile to God, saw God’s substance of being righteous, holy, and beautiful and good, and even more deeply tasted God’s love and salvation, so that her life gradually grew up in adversity. It’s really glorious to be persecuted for righteousness!
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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Walk in the Love of God | Gospel Movie "Mission of Love" | God Is Love
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Li Mo believed in Jesus from childhood. When she was 16, she became a coworker of the house church and worked for the Lord zealously. However, the dissension in the church escalated and the believers’ faith and love became cold increasingly. The desolate scene made her fall into the distress and perplexity she had never had before. In 1999, she was fortunate to hear Almighty God’s gospel of the last days and finally met the Lord! She joyfully told the good news to the brothers and sisters who were still eagerly expecting the Lord’s coming in religion. Unexpectedly, she was slandered, insulted, driven away, beaten and abused…. In those years, she went to many places to preach the gospel, such as many counties and cities in Hebei Province and Sichuan Province. During that time, she underwent many persecutions from the religious world. Although she suffered a lot and ever became weak and passive, with Almighty God's word leading her and God’s love encouraging her, she didn’t fear hardships and difficulties and went forward bravely. In such experience of sufferings, she saw clearly the religious world’s substance of being hostile to God, saw God’s substance of being righteous, holy, and beautiful and good, and even more deeply tasted God’s love and salvation, so that her life gradually grew up in adversity. It’s really glorious to be persecuted for righteousness!
Praise and Worship the Return of God | "Gospel Choir 19th Performance"
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Praise and Worship the Return of God | " gospel Choir 19th Performance"
Under a starry, quiet and peaceful night sky, a group of Christians earnestly awaiting the return of the Savior sing and dance to cheerful music. When they hear the joyful news "God has returned" and "God has uttered new words", they are surprised and excited. They think: "God has returned? He has already appeared?" With curiosity and uncertainty, one after another, they step into the journey of seeking God's new words. In their arduous seeking, some people are questioning while others simply accept it. Some people look on without comment, while others make suggestions and search for answers in the Bible—they look but in the end it is fruitless…. Just when they become discouraged, a witness brings them a copy of the Age of Kingdom Bible, and they are deeply attracted to the words in the book. What kind of book is this really? Have they actually found the new words that God has uttered in that book? Have they welcomed the appearance of God?
Every Nation Worships the Practical God
1. "This time, God comes to do work not in a spiritual body but in a very ordinary one. Not only is it the body of God’s second incarnation, but also the body in which God returns. It is a very ordinary flesh. In Him, you cannot see anything that is different from others, but you can receive from Him the truths you have never heard before, receive from Him the truths you have never heard before. This insignificant flesh is the embodiment of all the words of truth from God, that which undertakes God’s work in the last days, and an expression of the whole of God’s disposition for man to come to know. Did you not desire greatly to see the God in heaven? Did you not desire greatly to understand the God in heaven? Did you not desire greatly to see the destination of mankind? He will tell you all these secrets that no one can ever tell you, and He will even tell you of the truths that you do not understand. He is your gate into the kingdom, and your guide into the new age.
2. Such an ordinary flesh holds many unfathomable mysteries. His deeds may be inscrutable to you, but the goal of all the work He does is sufficient for you to see that He is not a simple flesh as man believes. For He represents the will of God as well as the care shown by God toward mankind in the last days........."
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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Slab City CA - Salvation Mountain, a visionary environment built by Leonard Knight in the badlands of the Colorado Desert in Southern California. March 2017.
taken on a Canon F-1 slr w/ 50mm FD f1.8 lens + polarizer. Kodak Portra NP400 film.
“Speaking of the larger environment, God made all things interconnected, mutually intertwined, and interdependent. He used this method and these rules to maintain the survival and existence of all things and in this way mankind has lived quietly and peacefully and has grown and multiplied from one generation to the next in this living environment up to the present day. God balances the natural environment to ensure mankind’s survival. If God’s regulation and control were not in place, no man could maintain and balance the environment, even if it was created by God in the first place—this still can’t ensure mankind’s survival. So you can see that God handles it all perfectly!” (Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh).
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Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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The Holy Land? The Bible Belt? Maybe, but for now it's just Salvation Mountain with the theme of "God is Love". Leonard Knight has made this art deco creation located at Slab City in Niland, California. Take the time to read about Salvation Mountain at the links below.
A truly bizarre, unique and quite entertaining place. Once can spend hours here looking around.
At the end of 2011 Leonard was admitted to a long term care facility. An effort is under way to preserve and maintain the mountain. Check out their Facebook page.
Picture is of the restored seminary against the backdrop of luxury condominiums. The restored seminary, is by the way, now a high end commercial wing...
Please Read on to understand where i am going with this :-)..
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Truth or Love: What’s Your Choice?
We live in a post-truth society—that’s what The Economist claimed two months ago. Two weeks ago, Oxford English Dictionary chose “post-truth” as its Word of the Year. Go back a bit further, and having 11 percent of America believe that you are “honest and trustworthy” was good enough to have a 9 percent lead in the race to be the next President of the United States. But of course even the polls were post-true.
We are very confused about the truth: There’s the truth, and then there’s the naked truth. There’s the truth, and then there’s the gospel truth (though the Gospel is taken to be obviously false). There’s the honest truth, and then there’s the God’s honest truth (but that has nothing to do with God).
We stretch the truth and bend the truth and twist the truth. We bury the truth because the truth hurts. When we want some¬thing to be false, we knock on wood. When we want something to be true, we cross our fingers. Which wooden cross are we trusting in?
Why do we have such a confused relationship with the truth? Fear. We are afraid of truth. Truth has so often been abused that experience has taught us the trajectory of truth—the trajectory of believing you are right and others are wrong—is from truth to disagreement to devaluing to intolerance to extremism to violence to terrorism.
And if that is the trajectory, then those committed to truth are in fact terrorists in the making. If that is the trajectory, then truth is an act of war, and an act of war leaves you with only two options: fight or flee.
Most of Western society is fleeing. Everything around us is structured to avoid disagreement about the truth: We spend most of our time on Facebook and Twitter where we can “like” and “retweet” but there is no option to “dislike.” Sports no longer teach us how to disagree. In professional sports, we replay every call to avoid disagreement. In youth sports, we don’t keep score and everyone gets a trophy.
When it comes to dating, we use online sites that “match” us with someone so similar in beliefs, background, and personality that as much disagreement as possible is avoided. We no longer meet people different from us at coffee shops because we go to drive-thru Starbucks. We no longer meet people while shopping because everything we could ever need or want is delivered to our door. Culturally, everything around us is set up to avoid disagreement.
The alternative to fleeing is fighting. I was walking around Oxford University a few months ago, and two guys walking just ahead of me were having a spirited conversation about how crazy they found certain Christian positions on ethical issues. One of them wondered out loud whether the only solution would be to shame Christians out of their positions.
His friend quickly responded, “Yeah, that’s what we should do! We should ridicule them mercilessly in the most insensitive ways we can think of.” That’s an exact quote. Then they both made a right turn and swiped their faculty cards to enter the University of Oxford Theoretical Physics building.
These were probably scholars at Oxford, a place that prides itself on intellectual freedom and the exchange of ideas, and ‘merciless, insensitive ridicule’ was the best they could come up with for resolving disagreement. I found myself wondering how many beliefs they hold in theoretical physics that one day will be considered ridiculous.
How does one get to this point? How does someone get to the point where ‘merciless ridicule’ seems like the best way forward?
I think it’s because you come to see Truth as more important than Love. If Truth is greater than Love, then you fight—then the end goal of Truth justifies whatever means necessary, whether the means of haughty academics or the means of ISIS. If truth is greater than love, then love is a temptation—a distraction threatening to avert our attention from what is truly important; then those who disagree with us are enemies, and warmth toward our enemies must be extinguished in favor of the cold, hard facts.
The alternative is that Love is greater than Truth. Then you flee. You flee from the dangers of Truth and adopt a pluralism that assures us “All truths are equally valid.” Does that include the claim that all truth claims are not equally valid? One college student recently told my colleague, Abdu Murray, that he doesn’t believe it is his place to disagree with anyone.
Abdu said, “Sure you do.”
The student said, “No I don’t”
Abdu said, “You just did.”
Philosophically, that’s how quickly pluralism runs into incoherence. But if truth starts you down a path that ends in extremism, violence, and terrorism, then philosophical incoherence might seem like a price worth paying.
Either Truth is greater than Love or Love is greater than Truth. Fight or flee. This is the cultural ultimatum we are living in. What’s your choice?
Maybe there’s another way. Jesus disagreed with us. His very coming was an act of disagreement with us—a statement that we require saving because our lives have disagreed so badly with what God intended for them.
But Jesus’s loving sacrifice for us was the very content of his disagreement; it was his very statement that we are sinners in need of a savior. God cut the link between disagreement and devaluing by making His communication of Truth one and the same as His communication of Love.
Not ‘Truth is greater than Love.’ Not ‘Love is greater than Truth.’ “God is love” (1John 4:8), and God is Truth (John 14:6). And therefore Love is Truth.
Only in Jesus does truth equal love, and therefore only Jesus can get us out of the cultural ultimatum we are stuck in: fight or flee. Every other worldview makes a choice between Love and Truth. Jesus refused to because in Him, and only in Him, Love and Truth are one and the same.
So the next time we have a choice between Love and Truth, let’s refuse to choose. Instead, let’s remember when the Truth—Jesus Himself—was stretched. Let’s remember when the Truth was twisted and bent, when the Truth was naked. Let’s remember when the Truth hurt, and when the Truth was buried.
Let us remember which wooden Cross we are trusting in. And let us remember that Love that is not Truth is not Love, and Truth that is not Love is not Truth.
Vince Vitale is director of the Zacharias Institute at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Love & Truth. Grace & Holiness. Mercy & Righteousness. 2 faces of the same coil. You can't have truth without love and the reverse as well. Jesus is the embodiment of both.
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If I were not saved by God, I would still be drifting in this world, struggling hard and painfully in sin, every day bleak and hopeless. If I were not saved by God, I'd still be crushed below the devil's feet, snared in sin and its enjoyments, ignorant of what my life would be. It's Almighty God who saves me; all God's words have purified my heart. Through God's judgment and His chastisement, my corrupted disposition's changed. All the word and truth God expresses, it has all given me new life. I have seen my God face to face and have tasted God's true love. Finally I've understood God's loving hand holds mine as we go. Now I have heard the voice of God and been raised before God's throne. The feast of my Christ I attend, to be perfected and purified by Him. What I'd hoped for is finally realized, I have now been saved by God.
It's Almighty God who saves me; all God's words have purified my heart. Through God's judgment and His chastisement, my corrupted disposition's changed. All the word and truth God expresses, it has all given me new life. I have seen my God face to face and have tasted God's true love. Finally I've understood God's loving hand holds mine as we go. Now I have heard the voice of God and been raised before God's throne. The feast of my Christ I attend, to be perfected and purified by Him. What I'd hoped for is finally realized, I have now been saved by God. What I'd hoped for is finally realized, I have now been saved by God.
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
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Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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The greatest gift of all is the gift that God offers to all of us, Himself.
In God, we find absolute prime reality, the unchanging and eternal Rock of Ages, and in knowing God we have a sense of true security.
In God, we find the very essence of self-giving love, and He loves us unconditionally, even as He gives us the power to offer the same to other people.
In God, we find meaning and significance, in that we can become adopted spiritually into His family and we belong to God and in a sense, He belongs to us.
In God, we find that ultimate prime goodness exists in His very nature, the beauty of virtue, the basis of true ethics.
In God, we find deep and lasting joy. This is not the main goal of living in a selfish sense, and there is a danger of idolizing pleasure, but it's a beautiful paradox that we find in seeking the person of God above all other things in a personal relationship.
I wish you all these things for Christmas, and in increasing measure.
God's the "I AM" that we ALL NEED!
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The Hymn of God's Word "God’s Deeds Fill the Vast Expanse of the Universe" | Gospel Music
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1. God looks down upon all things from on high, and dominates all things from on high. At the same time, God has sent His salvation over the earth. God is watching from His secret place all the time, man’s every move, everything they say and do. God knows man like the palm of His hand. The secret place is God’s abode, the firmament is the bed He lies on. Satan’s force cannot reach unto God, for He is full of majesty, righteousness, and judgment.
2. God has trodden all things with His feet, He stretches out His gaze over the universe. And God has walked among men, has tasted the sweetness and bitterness, all flavors of the human world; but men, they never truly recognized God, nor did they notice God as He walked abroad. Because God was silent, and performed no supernatural deeds, thus, no one ever truly saw Him. Things are not now as they once were: God is going to do things that, throughout the ages, the world has never seen, God is going to speak words that, throughout the ages, men have never heard, because He asks that all humanity come to know God in the flesh.