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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (25783)11/4/1998 9:01:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Christine,
Mortality is a nebulous concept until it takes form behind threatening words like biopsy and cancer. Our scarred and eternal spirits rebel when time and space attempt to confine what cannot be confined. Man has an inbred sense of eternity because his spirit is made in the image and likeness of Eternity himself. Eternal Jesus took on temporality to demonstrate that God-filled man cannot be held by time and space. Jesus raised others from the grave and finally He was raised himself. The darkness of sin has scarred man's eternal soul and given the dark god of time and space dominion and terror for a season. The sting of death lingers in man's consciousness until fear is defeated by the cleansing Blood of Jesus and the eternal spirit restored.
The Life and teachings of Christ testify of man's need for cleansing and eternal restoration just as the heavens declare His handiwork. The life of God in Christ is Eternal Life. When the dullness of man rejects these powerful voices and testimonies, there remains the final sting and terror that comes with the consciousness and certitude of our mortality. It is there that our innate need for eternal life seeks serious answers.

Gilgamesh had to watch the worms crawl from the rotting corps of his warrior friend before the terror of his own mortality finally gripped his heart. The quest for Eternal Life then became his consumming passion. All men will sooner or later come to that same quest.

The deepest need of man is Eternal Life. God our creator, because of his love, has simplified our quest by sending Jesus to take away our mortal and sinned-filled souls and giving us in return the life of God or Eternal Life. It is not through the wisdom of man or the cleverness of the mind that man comes to Eternal Life but through a simple trust in his creator and His solution---faith the Cross of Christ.
Immortality for mortality is the essence of the Christian message.

Emile
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