Easter I know for some is about the eggs, and the clothes, yes and the rabbits but for us Christians it’s about Jesus Christ dying for our sins and rising from the dead with all power in his hands as far as being our Lord and Savior. What is the difference between Christians and Jews, and Christians and Muslims? Jews are still waiting for the messiah and either say Jesus was a prophet or he was a false prophet, and Muslims believe that Mohammed is the prophet of God even though many say Jesus was a prophet, some say he was a fraud.
We all worship God but some call him God, Allah, Jehovah, Jesus, Buddha but I say that if he’s God then why does he need a name. Isn’t God enough? When you think of the name God, it means that no one is equal to or superior to him, that he is all-powerful. That’s really what God was trying to tell Moses at the Burning Bush when Moses asked what shall we call you? An irritated God responded by asking why did he need a name, that names were for people to identify one from the other, but there is but one God. Thus “I am the great I am.” In other words just call me God.
Some people refer to God as the Most High God, which is redundant because God is the highest you can get.
It has been a long time but there are two good Christian movies out that I recommend. “The Rising” which is somewhat like “The Robe” years ago starring Richard Burton, and “The War Room.” Still the best movie I’ve seen about Jesus Christ is the Mel Gibson produced movie “The Passion of the Christ” Not far from it is “Jesus of Nazareth” and “King of Kings.”
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It’s odd when I listen to the Republicans saying that they represent Christianity and Evangelism, talking about sending 12 million or more people back to Mexico who most haven’t lived in that country since they were children.
A person has the right to do what’s best for their family and if moving to another state, or country allows them to do that then that is what they are going to do. Regardless of man-made laws, isn’t that what the early White Americans did? Did they ask the Indians? No the Indians allowed them in and then White people took the land.
We need to study the history of California, Texas, New Mexico, which was owned by the Mexicans, but the White Americans took this land.
In the Book of Acts from the Bible it states that the original disciples, after Jesus died and rose to transcend to Heaven, started to practice what they had been taught by Jesus. Well the first thing they did was to start taking care of the poor, needy, and widowers. Anyone who had extra was expected to share their abundance with the have-nots, or the have little. Basically the Bible is saying the rich must share their wealth with the poor and needy. But Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who are supposed to be spokesmen for the Conservative Christian Right say this is Socialism, which is a bad word to the Republicans.
They believe Capitalism is God’s way. I’m not knocking Capitalism, but unchecked Capitalism leads to Depressions, and Recessions, which destroy people and countries. Oh, I haven’t seen it in the Bible.
God knew what he was doing when he demanded that the rich share their wealth with the poor and less fortunate because everything we have came from God.
That’s why I’m still trying to understand how the Southern Church can justify slavery, then the Jim Crow system after the Civil War, and now support anti-Affirmative Action and anti-diversity throughout the South. Maybe they haven’t gotten around to reading the New Testament in the Bible.
(Ulish Carter is the managing editor of the New Pittsburgh Courier.)
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