Loving Rascal

Dear Empuraan, We love you. We know you intend to present something positive using negative Biblical characters. Love and justice are human needs. Perhaps it is because God created us in his image: love and justice. Your movie is successful. Your acting is superb, as always. People love your presence and presence of mind. Your message is justice through strength, that is, by punishing the wicked. Even so, the Bible says, "Delightful are the merciful. They shall receive mercy." I loved many of your quotations from the Holy books. For instance, "But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it... for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you (Matthew 10:19-20)." However, the first 10-20 minutes of Empuraan are a biased depiction of historical facts to support one faction of Kerala's thoughts. Don't forget that the Gujarat riots have a cause. Muslim people burned a train in Godhra on 27 February 200...

Reservation Quota System grants freebies to the undeserving. Conversely, it presents underserved, challenging lives to the industrious and meritorious general category, yet poor citizens so that they can never come up in life. Is there any other civilized country in the world that grants such freebies to people of minority religions and a lower caste? The Socialists say, "The reservation system is a payback to the injustices your ancestors did to their (OBCs) ancestors." The tyrants of Britain ruled over us for two hundred-plus years. Who will correct the injustices they did to us? Does the UK give us any Reservation seats to right the injustices they did to our ancestors?    There's no Christian quota or Jain quota, so why is there a Muslim quota in Hindustan? Pakistan doesn't even give full citizenship rights to their minorities. The Middle Eastern countries don't even give a Citizenship to Hindu people. Why are our people treated like thi...

  Somebody asked me, “How can I know if I am a sinner?” I replied, “Will you die? If yes, you are a sinner. Coz according to the Bible, only sinners die. The righteous will never perish.” He didn’t say anything more. He knew he would need to acknowledge the need for a Savior if he admitted he was a sinner. Finally, I left him for God to convict him of his sin and draw him closer to Jesus, the remedy for human sins and future condemnation. There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1). Jesus said: I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me will live even if he dies (John 11:25). Are you a sinner? (Rom. 3:23, 6:23)    When Paul told Timothy, “I am the worst of sinners,” he was using a figure of speech (I Timothy 1). Some have taken this comment literally and misled many people. Paul exaggerated the depth of his sin to help Timothy understand the profundity of God’s grace. Paul persecuted the church before his conversion...

Idolatry is wrong. We can’t represent a living God with dead idols. Advaita is incorrect because the universe has an origin (Big Bang). If the universe is God, then God would become nothing at its beginning and end. It cannot be. The ten incarnations came to kill, not to save sinners. So, they are not helpful gods. In Islam, there is no complete forgiveness. All people go to hell and suffer for their sins. If God didn’t forgive them fully on earth, why would he do so if they cried from hell? God’s justice will be compromised if he forgives sin without punishing it. Besides, if God forgives sinners directly, he would also have to forgive Satan if he repents. Therefore, only through Jesus’ sacrifice, God forgives sinners, ensuring justice is served. Let us get into the details now of why God can’t forgive people directly.   God may want to forgive people directly. However, God's attribute of justice would hinder him. First, God's justice cannot grant forgiv...

Prof Wright addresses the most problematic question we face as Christ-followers. What is God doing about evil in the world? First, he discusses the various ideological and religious viewpoints on the Problem of Evil. Second, Prof Wright uses the Biblical paradigm –the story of Israel ending in Jesus’ crucifixion– to examine the problem in depth. Third, he shows us how, in Jesus’s death and resurrection, God’s justice decisively dealt with evil. God allowed all evil to do its worst on Jesus’ body.    In his response, Jesus absorbed all the evil thrown at him. Instead of yelling angry retaliatory rants at his crucifiers like the Maccabees martyrs, Jesus forgave his enemies. This act of forgiveness, more powerful than any retaliation, made evil void of all power. Jesus rose again on the third day, claiming all authority over the heaven and the earth (Matthew 28), which was once the domain of the accuser (Luke 4). Evil will be no more in the age to come...

“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God...”   “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.   Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ...