{"id":1666,"date":"2011-12-07T05:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2011-12-06T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:48:45","slug":"christianity-as-the-source-of-civil-rights-and-call-to-help-the-hurting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2011\/12\/christianity-as-the-source-of-civil-rights-and-call-to-help-the-hurting.html","title":{"rendered":"Christianity as the Source of Civil Rights and Call to Help the Hurting"},"content":{"rendered":"
One more Biblical Reason why human rights and civil rights are so key to Christianity: The idea that life is sacred. and life begins not only at conception, but before conception is also found in the story of Christmas.<\/div>\n
Luke 1:39-44. \u00a0\u00a039 Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Notice that the babe leaped in Elizabeth’s womb.\u00a0 More than that look at verse 41, the Holy Spirit affected the baby. Here is one of the clearest evidences from the Bible on the sanctity of life which begins at conception. \u00a0But much more than that. \u00a0This idea that life comes from God. That the HS, our Creator gives us rights is the historic foundation for human rights as we know it today. The Holy Spirit doesn\u2019t inhabit rocks and nonliving things. It dwells in human beings.<\/div>\n
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I told you that I had two questions as I think about the World of Pain. The First is \u201cWhere did the idea of Civil rights come from, the second is…\u201d<\/p>\n

2) Question 2: \u00a0Why Doesn\u2019t God Stop The Loss of Life \u00a0if He Knew It Was Coming?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

18 \u201c A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, \u00a0Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus and the Bible has the only satisfying answer to the problem of evil. I summarize all the other philosophies of the world down to four statements; NOT REALLY, NOT EVER, NOT AGAIN, AND NOT YET. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Buddhism says that suffering is \u201cnot really happening.\u201d \u00a0Atheism says that evil will NOT EVER be fixed. \u00a0Hinduism says suffering will be fixed through a reoccurring cycle of reincarnation over billions of years: NOT AGAIN. \u00a0Christianity says that God will deal with evil, just NOT YET. \u00a0But God sees the pain, he counts the tears, and he will reset everything correctly. Just not yet… \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But why? Why not yet?<\/p>\n

Why does he wait? \u00a0The Bible teaches us that evil is not \u201cout there.\u201d It\u2019s in here. It\u2019s in me and you. The trash of evil (selfishness, pride, ingratitude, unlovingness) is in my heart and yours. If God\u2019s garbage truck pulls up to incinerate the trash of this world… Many people he loves dearly will be incinerated with the trash. \u00a0\u00a0People are \u201cattached to their trash.\u201d \u00a0So God waits. God waits for as many people as possible to take him up on the offer to be \u201cdetached\u201d from the trash. \u00a0\u00a0Is it worth the risk? Evil and suffering affecting so many through murder and suffering… just so more can come to know him… It is to God. \u00a0He wants as many as possible to come to know Him. And through the rubble and garbage of human trash, He calls out to us this Christmas. He calls us to get detached from our own trash and then ENGAGE IN A BROKEN WORLD by inviting our friends to get detached. The reason we as a church have a two service design is so we can invite friends to the 2nd\/3rd services where they can find a way to get free from their trash through Christ before the garbage truck arrives.<\/p>\n

CHRISTMAS IS AN INVITATION TO ENGAGE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Christ was in a World Of Pain. The second way Jesus was in a World of Pain was not in Egypt, but in Bethlehem. There was a blood bath going on in a culture that didn\u2019t and doesn\u2019t respect life. \u00a0\u00a0Life is discarded. The unborn. The poor. The widow. The orphan. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jesus\u2019s example is an invitation for you and I to draw near to Christ and engage in our broken world. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We need to engage. We can\u2019t watch on. \u00a0\u00a0We must get involved.<\/div>\n
For a free first session of Godonomics, visit:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.godonomics.com\/watch-session-1<\/a><\/div>\n
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