Of God and Mankind

Mark 6:5-6 (AMPC) “ And Jesus could not do a miracle there at all [because of their unbelief] except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 He wondered at their unbelief. A nd He was going around in the villages teaching.” Dear people of God, there is a race by different nations of the world to produce a so-called vaccine for the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic with a view to stemming the tide of the ailment. Recently, I had cause to tell someone in writing that the coronavirus or whatever ailment by whatever name cannot have any effect on me because I am a child of God and Jesus Christ has taken my infirmities and borne my sicknesses and diseases. The fellow, a self-professed atheist, responded by saying that I should come off my high horse with my statement and he went on to ask if other Christians who had died from covid-19 were not children of God. I did not bother responding to him because he is not a Christian and I had clearly quoted the Scr...

There are many things that would send many Christians to an eternal damnation and some of these are subtle. Every single day, people all over the world continue to offend others and this sometimes results in intense quarrels that seem to have no end. Some hold on to grudges and resentment against others and it even causes sicknesses in their bodies for which they are unable to find any cure medically. The Bible tells us in Hebrews 12:14, “ Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration  and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. ” For some Christians, this verse of the Bible appears to be a tall order and so they give a thousand and one reasons why they should disobey it because of the “severity” of the offences committed against them. They justify it and remain in that state of offence and resentment without caring a hoot about the danger ahead. Even when they are warned about the spiritual and even eternal implicatio...