NCarolinian

On the sixth day of creation God concluded His creating with His masterpiece - us.  He charged us to be stewards over all the animals, name them, be vegetarians, and be "fruitful and increase in number" (Genesis 1:26-30).   Then God called ALL He did very  GOOD .  " God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning --the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31)   This was our past - good.  Humans had a proper relationship with God and creation and each other.  Still in humanity's past is our haunting MISTAKE.   Sometime, maybe even hundreds of years after God gave these charges and introduced them to the Garden of Eden, we believed The Father of Lies and disobeyed God concerning eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Because of this encounter and choice, our relationship with God was severed and the element or corruption that help cause this Fall, sin, infected the rest of creation as we...

Isn't it a good thing that Jesus being the Son of God does not depend on me recognizing Him as such.  He has been, is, and always will be, the Son of God.  In addition, one day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the Glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11).  However, when was it in your life that you first really worshiped Him as the Son of God. In reading Matthew, the first time I notice the disciples calling Jesus the Son of God and worshiping Him is when Jesus came to them, walking on the water.  After He and Peter had their little "faith lesson" and they came back into the boat, Matthew 14:33 says, "Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, 'Truly you are the Son of God.' " My inquiry is - why now?  I did a search on the miracles of Jesus in chronological order and walking on water came in at #21!  Immediately before they were on the boat, the disciples experienced the feeding of the 5000 .  An...

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work...-people-forbes Barack Obama - Title: President, USA Vladimir Putin - Title: Prime Minister, Russia Hu Jintao - Title: President, People's Republic of China Angela Merkel - Title: Chancellor, Germany Bill Gates - Title: Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud - Title: King, Saudi Arabia Pope Benedict XVI - Title: Pope, Roman Catholic Church Ben Bernanke - Title: Chairman, Federal Reserve Mark Zuckerberg - Title: Founder, Facebook David Cameron - Title: Prime Minister, United Kingdom ______________________________________________ Now, a little extra stated in some of the descriptions that caught my eye. Concerning Vladimir Putin - "Assuming that he serves 2 more terms, the increasingly autocratic Putin will be in office until 2024. Take that, Stalin!" Could this be the man in power when the Gog/Magog Attack happens? Concerning Angela Merkel - "A rec...