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• Smútok Boha

  As I have worked on this book, I’ve had an increasing sense of one vital truth that I am completely failing to express; and that is how God himself feels about us, a krivdy, ktoré sme urobili. Only when we start facing up to this reality do we begin to realize that, in all of this, it is God himself that has been most wronged.

  God is the ultimate artist; taking an intimate and passionate delight in every aspect of his creation. He is also the perfect parent. He not only created our bodies, but knows all our thoughts and feelings. Vo fyzickom zmysle, He is self-sufficient and invulnerable. But although his adversary Satan cannot attack God directly, he can attack the things that God loves.

  We don’t usually think of God feeling pain and sorrow: ale robí. His chief concern is our hearts. Ak nás láska dokáže podnietiť k tomu, aby sme zašli pre ostatných až do takmer nemysliteľných dĺžok, would a perfect, nekonečné, God love less? And if it hurts us when we see others suffer, will it not hurt God more?

  Those who oppose God try to accuse him of unfair conduct. But God designed this world for our enjoyment, gave us the power of choice and made no unreasonable demands. Yet still we tried to seize what was not ours. How can God be the arbiter of justice if He does not deliver the justice our actions deserve? Would we hesitate to swat a biting insect? But God’s love is so great that, despite all the grief we have caused, He was still prepared to suffer even more by allowing his faultless Son Jesus to pay the penalty for our misdeeds!

• Peklo vyhrať?

  Doteraz ľudský život prežil: but is our ‘luck’ about to run out? While we are increasingly told there is no intelligence or moral authority in the universe that stands above our own, we keep finding even more ways of destroying ourselves. Ako môžeme byť takí hlúpi?

  The sheer complexity of this world – ever more apparent the farther our knowledge extends – positively screams of an intelligence with purposes vastly greater than our own. Yet the prevailing attitude amongst many ‘influencers’ of our generation continues to be that life was the product of pure random chance. They insist there is no God and, pri smrti, jednoducho prestaneme existovať. Skrátka, human life is a worthless accident.

  But where is this culture of despair really coming from? Who is really pulling the strings? The Bible points to mankind’s ancient enemy, Satan. Contemptuous of love, he sees it as a weakness to be used as a bargaining chip to get his own way.

  Môžu sa veci ešte zhoršiť?? It doesn’t take much imagination to see they can: tak prečo Boh nezasiahne teraz? Because there are still others who may yet turn back to God and be welcomed into heaven. Will you and your loved ones be among them?

• Alebo Neba zaplatiť?

  Aj keby sme odteraz žili život dokonalej nezištnosti, that could not eliminate the death sentence that God had warned would result from our sin. If God suspended his judgment against us, Satan would demand the same. But by choosing to take our place, Jesus paid our penalty; and Satan, as Jesus’ executioner, was left with no claim to mercy.

  Nikto by nemal byť nútený platiť za cudzie činy: ale vyššie princípy lásky, milosrdenstvo a odpustenie sú schopné uspokojiť požiadavky spravodlivosti, za predpokladu, že možno nájsť spôsob, ako zabrániť ďalším trestným činom.

  Ježiš’ úplne nezaslúžene, ale úplne dobrovoľné, obeť seba samého na našom mieste nezabezpečuje len plné uspokojenie všetkých požiadaviek spravodlivosti. Zakladá tiež milostný vzťah s Bohom, ktorý môže byť s pribúdajúcimi vekami len silnejší a silnejší…

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