Saturday, 2 January 2016

MAN HAS BEEN CREATED - WHAT FOR?
 Those who follow the Bible should  know  the appropriate  answer for the  question that  what for man has been created? And observe the following verses  what the answer of the Bible about this. 

          Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will rain bread from
          heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a cerain
          rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in
          my law, or not.    -Exodus 16:4  

         ...For the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
         the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.    
                                                                                     -Deuteronomy 13:3
According to the above verses it becomes crystal clear that God has created the human beings  only to  examinine, whether they follow His law in strict obedience or neglect it. Further this law provides  two important basic points-  one  is enjoined upon to do and the other is the comandments, which show the prohibited things.  A believer, for God’s love and blessing sacrifices by obeying God’s commandments and discards all prohibited ones however great beneficial they appear to be. On the other hand   if he is an unbeliever or imperfect  believer he cares   only his self-interested purposes and  does every thing to meet his own vested interest but neither cares for the blessing nor love of God . In these two attitudes, God  observes what kind of attitude one adopts.   This is the examination of God and  He mentions  in the following passages about the great reward to be given to  those who succeed and also the disgraceful consequences of those that fail  in this examination. 

       Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
      a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, 
      which I command you this day: and a curse, if ye will not obey 
      the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of 
      the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, 
      which ye have not known.       -Deuteronomy 11:26-28

     I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that 
     I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; 
     therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.               
                                                                  -Deuteronomy 30:19
          We can understand from the above passages that God  has placed  before the  man kind, the two ways the one which confers favours in this world and hereafter and the another which causes harm in this world and hereafter.  Further,  God has bestowed the discrimination faculty  exclusively to the human beings, from among all living beings.   And the main intention of God is to know whether  the man uses  this discrimination  faculty  and choose the right path for him. The desire of  God is that one should  accepts  and follow the  way, that  what one has found to be correct basing on the scriptures .

       Different attitudes such as ‘Blessing-Curse’ and ‘Life-Death’ revolve around the man who succumbs either to do evil  or good.  Paul suggests the best way as  how one can save one self from the evil attitude and follow the good attitude. we  read from the following verse.

          Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from
          all appearance of evil.        -1 Thessalonians 5:21-22                                          
    
         In the former verses we understand that God has created the human beings  in the midst of Good and Evil to see which side the man inclines.  God has decided before hand the  consequences of those who succeed  in this examination to reward the ‘Eternal life’ and those who fail  to punish in the ‘Eternal hell’.  These two ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ ways which are set before man are intermingled. Therefore what should one do in this situation? The appropriate answer is given in the above verse. It makes clear the  point that “ ALL THINGS  ARE  PUT TO THE TEST”, this is to mean that one should understand logically and analytically ,which of them is the true belief. Only through this way we can protect ourselves from ‘All kinds of evil’.  Thus those  who follow that righteous way after careful analysis and examination  undoubtedly attain the kingdom of God.

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