Kindle Notes & Highlights
Our high-school students know more about the physical laws of the universe than the greatest scientist in the days of Aristotle.
"If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake."
wrote: "If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? If man is made for God, why is he opposed to God?"
It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem that besets us. It is man's confusion about God's plan that has the world in chaos.
"God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth."
But if we ignore the help He has sent, if we fail to obey the laws He has set forth, we cannot cry out to Him for mercy when the punishment we deserve falls upon us!
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
For it is not the mere possession of freedom that makes life satisfying—it is what we choose to do with our freedom that determines whether or not we shall find peace with God and with ourselves.
Are they not both motivated by fear and distrust of their fellow men? Are both not selfishly bent on achieving their own goals at any cost to their brothers? Is a bomb any less savage or brutal, or more civilized than a naked spear? Can we hope to find a solution to our problems so long as both the most "primitive" and the most "progressive" among us are more eager to kill than to love our neighbors?
"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death" (James 1:14-15). It is because we have all broken God's laws, all transgressed His commands, that we are all classified as sinners.
