Kua whakaritea te rauemi i raro i nga upoko whanui e whai ake nei:

Paatohia a konei ki te hoki ki te reinga ki te wikitoria, ki te Rangi ranei hei utu, i runga ranei i tetahi o nga kaupapa-iti kei raro iho nei:

• He aha te Atua i tino Kaha?

  I enei ra, He maha nga korero mo te aroha me te murunga hara o Ihu, e mohio ana tatou he pai ake tona whakaaro ki te hara i to te Atua i mua.. Engari, Ina hoki, he tino uaua ake ana paerewa.

  Mena ka whakatupato a Ihu ki a tatou mo te mate kino atu i te mate, katahi me patai, "He aha te Atua i tino pai ai?” He aha i kore ai e taea e ia te hanga i tetahi ao e aroha ana tatou tetahi ki tetahi – ka whakakore ranei i te kino me te kore e whakakore i te hunga nana i mahi? He pono ehara te nuinga o nga tangata i te kino? A kaore e taea te whakakore i nga mea tino kino? Ua haavîhia anei ta Iesu haapiiraa, kua pohehe ranei tatou ki te kaha o te ahuatanga?

• Ko te kore e taea te aroha here

  Karekau he kupu pakeha kua whakahekea kino atu i te ‘aroha.’ He maha nga momo whanonga, kare-a-roto ranei e kiia nei ko te ‘aroha’; e te faaohipa ra te reo Heleni i te tahi mau ta‘o taa ê no te faataa ê. Te here mau râ ta te Atua e hinaaro ra, tei reira te taata whiriwhiri ki te tuku i nga hiahia o etahi atu i mua i o ratou ake. Ko tona tino hoariri ehara i te mauahara: engari ko te whakaaro whaiaro me te kore whakaaro. Ki te kore tenei momo aroha, e kore e taea te rangi te rangi.

  Engari tera ano 2 raruraru nui. Me pehea e taea ai te whakamana? Mena he kaiwhakatikatika, me pehea e karo ai ia i te mahi i runga i te hiahia? A me pehea e taea ai e te tangata te mahi i runga i te aroha ki te kore e whai waahi ki te whiriwhiri kia kaua?

• Ko te Hunga kino o te kino

  Kua hiahia tonu nga tane ki te hapori tika. Heoi ano, despite incredible intellectual and technological advances, civilizations still rise only to crumble into chaos. And it’s the same in our own lives. Na he aha te raru o raro? Self-centred evil, like a gravitational black hole, has a kind of attraction for us; na reira, iti i te iti, we begin to tolerate and excuse it; and then defend it, e ki ana, “That’s just the way I am.”

  Ka tipu te rakau, kua whakapakeke ona manga; so it always carries the marks of its past. The same is true of us; we become what we choose. Ua tamata noa Iesu i te feia e faaroo ra ia ’na ia rave i te mau maitiraa. By choosing our way instead of God’s, our natures become distorted. Evil’s corrosive influence makes us unfit for heaven, me te whakahaere ia tatou ki te kore e taea e a tatou mahi tino pai te wehe atu.

  Your own experience of the depths this can take you to may be more or less severe than mine. But we all face a death sentence from this spiritual killer disease. Kaore tetahi o tatou e panui ana i tenei e kii ana ehara i te hua o a tatou ake whiringa. Na, ahakoa nga mahi whakapai ake i a tatou mo te wa poto, i te mutunga ka kino noa atu nga mea - ki te kore te Atua ake e wawao.

  Ka taea he waahi kaore e hoki mai? Tena pea: engari kotahi tonu te whiringa nui, mo te hunga e pai ana …

Panuihia …