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Thursday, February 12, 2009

I am a shell.
Today I saw an open head surgery on TV.
The man was kept awake because the doctors needed him to respond to ensure that his brain was still working.
Can you imagine?

Lying with your head cut open, people poking around in your brain, and then they say to you: "Wriggle your toes"

Science doesn't explain the presence of a soul, it can't because the soul is not tangible, not physical. But we all know we're more than just nervous impulses at work. We're not just chemical reactions.

You want chemical reactions, look at animals, like earthworms or rabbits. Of course we wouldn't know if they really do feel and think independently, but they mostly act on instinct, reacting to stimulus from their environment. They produce adrenaline when they need it to survive. Adrenaline causes short term changes in the way their body works so they escape danger. Thats all.

But we have consciousness. The ability to dream, wonder, explore, feel. Yeah, we have the basic physical body to live, with the adrenaline and nerves, but theres something else. The essence of you. Its not just your brain releasing chemicals, making you feel emotions. Sure, hormones can affect your emotions, since we are our bodies, but you: You're not your body.

You're inside your body.

So is the soul immortal?
This shell dies of degeneration after some years, because our cells can only divide so many times. The very first cell that we started from has divided and divided to make the billions of cells that make up your body. But it can only divide so many times.
Death is inevitable.

But the soul is not a biological, organic compound. Its energy, consciousness. All energy goes somewhere. It is converted, but cannot be destroyed.

So what happens to the soul when the body dies?

Start planning for your soul today. Don't put it off because you never know when your body might fail you.

There are two places your soul can go.

The first place, you don't have to even try. You're going there because of what you are: a wretched, lousy sinner, and no amount of good things you do can redeem you since your bad stuff >good stuff. Always. Its the way the world is.

The next place is a gift. Someone died for you because he couldn't bear the thought of a future without you.
All you have to do is to believe.

Would the person who loves you the most die for you? I don't think I could do it for anybody.

There is a God, there is accountability, and unless you make a decision today, your soul is condemned to eternal suffering.

People say this all the time, until it almost doesn't mean anything anymore. But there is a higher being that made everything you see, breathe, eat, love.

He knows you inside out, like an engineer knows the machine he created.
He loves what he made, since he made it, and it was perfect.
He doesn't want you to suffer eternal damnation.

You are going to hell. You deserve it. I deserve it.
But he made another way. A way that changed the course of universal history. You have a ticket to heaven, because he died for you.
All you have to do is believe.

You know that your body is dying. Right now, cells are dying. In a short 80 years, your soul would have completed this part of its life here on earth. But it doesn't end there. Theres still eternity to deal with. Earth is just a passing-by place, a little passage on the path of infinity.

This wonderful, loving creator God is who I know as Jesus.
Hes not a religion.
Hes a person for the lack of a better term.
He exists, he has plans for you and me. He loves you.

Hes bought your ticket, all you have to do is to collect it by believing that he exists and meeting up with him so he can give it to you.

Christian doesn't mean going to church and doing good deeds and not lying, cheating and stealing.
Christian means I personally know the God who made me.
Christianity is a relationship with Jesus.

Theres no formality in it, in terms of rigid religious rules and practices. Theres no such thing as, "if I do this, I will make God happy and then he will give me good luck"

Theres nothing you can do to make him love you more than he already does. Its pure, unconditional, fatherly love.

All you have to do is believe in him.
Hes waiting for you. Hes been waiting a million years for you to say the words: "Dear Jesus, thank you for loving me, and dying for me. I believe in you. Please be with me for all eternity."

Knowing God is wonderful. It doesn't make life easier, but life is made much better. You finally become complete. Everything that you've been looking for, everything that has felt missing has been God. All along. You just didn't know.

Seriously, its the best thing that can happen to you in this life. And after that.
All you have to do is to believe.

If you've decided that you want to know this God, all you have to do is to talk to him. Theres no "proper" way to do it, just say it, he can hear you.
Theres a sample line in the sixth last paragraph. You could tell that to God, or you could go to this website, which has an example of a simple prayer you could use.

Don't worry about what others think. This is you being in charge of your life, your soul making a decision.
Its personal.
Jesus loves you.
Seriously.

And I love you too.
But not in that way.
I am going to fall asleep in class tomorrow, seeing its almost 11pm now.
Dinosaurs are awesome.

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