信仰節慶篇─期待你的神蹟
在任何時刻，任何神蹟要發生，都有三個要素。第一，你要相信神的全能。我們所信的神，是一位偉大奇妙的真神；祂的作為偉大，祂的策略奇妙。只要你信靠祂，祂有足夠的智慧幫助你，祂有足夠的能力托住你。第二，你必須主動配合神在生命中的工作。神蹟發生，永遠不會是我們光坐在那裡，只等著神來開路；我們必須主動配合。就像聖經中大衛與巨人歌利亞(David and Goliath)打仗的時候，大衛必須先上戰場，勇敢面對歌利亞；他也必須甩出手中的石子，然後神才幫助他，把歌利亞打倒。所以，必須主動配合神的工作，神蹟才會發生。第三，你也必須來到一個關口，這個關口是必須靠信心才能突破的。否則，如果還能倚靠自己的智慧與才能，你就不需要神蹟了。只有當你來到一個關口，你知道沒有別的辦法，必須倚靠神的帶領；只有在這個時刻，神蹟才會發生。你是否正處在人生的關口當中呢？就像「泰山」電影的主角一樣，當他站在山崖上想要跨越到對面，可是眼前卻只有一根細細的樹藤。結果，他抓住那根樹藤，飛越了山谷與深淵。同樣地，在人生的關口中，有時你看「前後左右」都沒有出路；你只能往「上」看，抓住神的應許，憑信心跨越出去。只有在那個時刻，神蹟才會發生在你身上！*《跨越要訣》當你處在走投無路的絕境中時，也許你的答案，就在於向上看！*
But stop telling me how I should deal with idiots!
Let's see if you people actually have anything that is of substance to post...what a bunch of ....
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Jariel: You need be sophisticate , mature to deal with people...
等你們這些人 post 一點像樣的東西像[文見明] 網友時, 本人在 get modest 好了. But as of right now, your comments really does not matter a whole lot!
Thank you, Pastor Liu.
"本人相信眾網友英文成度勉強可以﹖"
happy?
閣下是陰天打孩子﹑太閒了﹑硬是要雞蛋裡挑骨頭!
from these words and others ...
We think Jariel you need be modest in many ways...
Well, man's basic frame and brain size haven't changed throughout his terrestrial existence. So here is the problem. Homo sapiens has been on the planet for 100,000 years, but apparently for 95,000 of those years he accomplished virtually nothing. No real art, no writing, no inventions, no culture, no civilization.
How is this possible? Were our ancestors, otherwise physically and mentally undistinguishable from us, such blithering idiots that they couldn't figure out anything other than the arts of primitive warfare?
Then, a few thousand years ago, everything changes. Suddenly savage man gives way to historical man. Suddenly the naked ape gets his act together. We see civilizations sprouting in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and elsewhere. Suddenly there are wheels and agriculture and art and culture. Soon we have dramatic plays and philosophy and an explosion of inventions and novel forms of government and social organization.
So how did Homo sapiens, heretofore such a slacker, suddenly get so smart?
Is it possible? as if some transcendent being or force reached down and breathed some kind of a spirit or soul into man, because after accomplishing virtually nothing for 98 percent of our existence, we have in the past 2 percent of human history produced everything from the pyramids to Proust, from Socrates to computer software.
You tell me!
眾網友可稱本人為 [agnostic], 但本人決不會是像世報部落格作家蘇友貞[an "atheist" who not only does not believe god, but also despise religion一般以科學為名而排斥宗教!
本人相信眾網友英文成度很好所以為求速度以下還是用英文寫較快些...
It was in 1859—exactly a century and a half ago—that Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, perhaps the most controversial book of the past millennium and the work that has since made Darwin the patron saint of modern atheism. According to Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."
Evolution does seem to turn many Christians into unbelievers. A famous example is the distinguished Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. Wilson writes that when he discovered evolution he felt a profound sense of intellectual liberation from his Baptist upbringing in the South. Evolution also makes some people secular evangelists for the Darwinist cause. Michael Shermer was an evangelical Christian studying at Pepperdine University when his study of evolution convinced him to give up his faith. Now the editor of Skeptic magazine, Shermer has become a kind of missionary for the atheist point of view.
Here we must distinguish between Darwin the scientist and Darwin the unbeliever. Darwin, who was raised Anglican and even considered becoming a clergyman, did eventually relinquish his Christian faith. But he did not do so because of evolution.
The story is told in Adrian Desmond and James Moore's authoritative biography Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. Desmond and Moore point out that Darwin lost his faith many years before his publication of his magnum opus on evolution. When his young daughter Annie died at the age of 10, Darwin came to hate the God whom he blamed for this. This was in 1851, eight years before Darwin released his Origin of Species.
Around the time of Annie's death, Darwin also wrote that if Christianity were true then it would follow that his grandfather Erasmus Darwin and many of his closest family friends would be in hell. Darwin found this utterly unacceptable, given that these men were wise and kind and generous. Darwin's rejection of God was less an act of unbelief as it was a rebellion against the kind of God posited by Christianity. A God who would allow a young girl to die and good people to go to hell was not anyone that Darwin wanted to worship.
Now when Darwin published his work on evolution, the American biologist Asa Gray wrote Darwin to say that his book had shown God's ingenious way of ensuring the unity and diversity of life. From Gray’s point of view, Darwin had exposed divine teleology. Darwin praised Gray for seeing a point that no one else had noticed. In later editions of his books, Darwin went out of his way to cite the English writer Charles Kingsley, who described evolution as compatible with religious belief. To the end of his life, Darwin insisted that one could be "an ardent theist and an evolutionist."
Look forward to God's miracles in such timing.
God bless!