The Gospel
>the world is fallen - this is a universally accepted truth that shows itself every single day by people having the innate urge to correct a perceived moral wrong in society or the human condition. Your very job as a glowie speaks to this as, if the world were not fallen, then you would not be employed
>the Bible provides us a narrative that perfectly explains the current condition of the world
>in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and He created Man in His own image (a being with free will and dominion)
>He gave unto Man the Earth, and tested him with just one rule: do not eat of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil
>tempted by Satan, Man ate the fruit and committed the first Sin, which means to break the design and desires of God
>God removed Man from Paradise and left him to be his own desires ; i.e. left him as sovereign over a fallen world
>the cost of eating of the fruit, however, is death. God will some day come back to pay that debt unto Man
>however, God is righteousness and loves Man, and so He set out on a plan to ransom Man and return Him to Paradise
>God spoke to Man through His Prophets for millenia, setting apart a peoples, the Israelites, to pave the way for salvation unto the world
>God gave us glimpses of this plan throughout many an ordeal, such as what was celebrated on Passover: the "passing over" of God's wrath from those Egyptians who sanctified their homes through the blood of a Lamb and ate of its flesh
>He told us a Christ - a "Messiah", meaning an anointed one; meaning a King will come unto the Earth and bring salvation to God's people
>when the world was finally at the desired place, God Himself came unto the world as the man, Jesus of Nazareth aka Jesus son of Joseph aka Jesus Christ aka Jesus the King
>He came unto the world to preach to Man directly, eye to eye, and to show him the Way to repentence: to trust in Him and Him alone, so that His righteousness lived as Man may account for the unrighteousness of Man living according to his own desires
>to fulfill this, He gave Himself up to die on a cross in order to pay for the sins of the world. Thus, if you put your trust and worship unto Christ Jesus, then He has paid for your transgressions and you have adopted His righteousness in coming Judgment
>however, the Lord Christ, in order to show us that He is greater than Death, even death on a cross, resurrected after three days
>He sent out missionaries to preach the good news of His plan for attunement for Mankind - the Gospel
>at the end of the age, Lord Jesus will return to judge the world for their transgressions, and all of those who choose to reject Him in favor of their own desires, as the first Man did with the fruit, will be punished with Death in Hell, a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those who chose to accept God's sacrifice will be grafted back unto His plan and return to Paradise, where He will dwell with God as His people
In order to be right with God, you need to accept the free gift of Jesus Christ, repent of your sins and reject your unrighteous desires. It is my wish that every federal agent in this website hear the Gospel and be Saved. God bless.
