Einstein and Billy Graham

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Subject: Einstein and Billy Graham

Billy  Graham is now 96 years old with   Parkinson's  disease.  In January, 2000, leaders in   Charlotte, North Carolina invited their favorite son,   Billy  Graham, to a luncheon in his   honor.

Billy   initially  hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with   Parkinson's  disease.  But the   Charlotte  leaders said, 'We don't expect a major address.  Just come and let us   honor  you.'  So he agreed.

After wonderful things were said about him,   Dr. Graham stepped to the   rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said, "I'm reminded today of   Albert   Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been   honored  by Time magazine as the Man of the Century.  Einstein  was once   traveling  from   Princeton  on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger.  When he came to   Einstein,   Einstein  reached in his vest pocket.  He couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets.  It wasn't there.  He looked in his briefcase but couldn't find it.  Then he looked in the seat beside him.  He still couldn't find it.  The conductor said, ' Dr.   Einstein, I know who you are.  We all know who you are.  I'm sure you bought a ticket.  Don't worry about it.'

”Einstein  nodded appreciatively.  The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets.  As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.

"The conductor rushed back and said, ' Dr.   Einstein,   Dr.   Einstein, don't worry, I know who you are; no problem.  You don't need a ticket.   I'm sure you bought one.'

”Einstein  looked at him and said, "Young man, I too, know who I am.  What I don't know is where I'm going.” 

Having said that   Billy  Graham continued, "See the suit I'm wearing?  It's a brand new suit.  My children, and my   grandchildren  are telling me I've gotten a little   slovenly  in my old age.  I used to be a bit more   fastidious.  So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion.  You know what that occasion is?  This is the suit in which I'll be buried.  But when you hear I'm dead, I don't want you to immediately remember the suit I'm wearing.  I want you to remember this: I not only know who I am.  I also know where I'm going.  May your troubles be less, your blessings more, and may nothing but happiness, come through your door.  Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil -- it has no point.

"Amen and peace, my friends.  And may each of us have lived our lives so that when our ticket is punched we don't have to worry about where we are going."


Even at his age and with   Parkinson's  Disease, he could still deliver a powerful sermon!

An atheist finds God: Lee Strobel

An atheist finds God: Lee Strobel joins Houston church, university

2/9/2015 Houston Chronicle

Web: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/houston/article/An-atheist-finds-God-Lee-Strobel-joins-Houston-6071341.php#/0

As far as Walter Strobel's first three kids were concerned, their old man was a stand up dad. He coached Little League, led Cub Scouts and was president of their high school's booster club. After years of working hard to build a happy home, it's possible he was ready to kick back and harvest the domestic harmony he had sown. But the loyal husband, successful businessman and devout Lutheran was in for a jarringly unpleasant surprise: another son.

Lee Strobel, recalls his less than welcome birth ‑ confirmed by his mother on her dying bed ‑ as the beginning of a rocky father-son relationship marked by the older man's emotional absence.

"We never bonded as father and son," Strobel says. "He never came to my graduations."

The storms that swept the Strobels' suburban Chicago household indelibly marked the youngest son, goading him to excel as a young newspaperman yet casting him into the depths of anger, alcohol and rancorous religious disbelief. Perhaps they lifted him as well, eventually making him one of the nation's most recognizable cheerleaders for Christ ‑ in print, on podiums and television and, since 2014, in Houston university classrooms and churches.

The low point of the father-son clash ‑ an event that still stings ‑ came on the eve of the youth's

high school graduation. Against the older man's wishes, the teen purchased a motorcycle. Walter Strobel steamed. "I don't have enough love for you to fill my little finger," he spat, wiggling his pinkie in the boy's face. Lee Strobel bolted from the house, vowing never to return.

"I felt like I was on a quest of revenge," Strobel says. He fantasized of achieving success as a journalist that his father would envy. "What I really was doing," says Strobel, "was launching a lifelong quest for grace."

More than a decade passed before Strobel, now 63, achieved that grace ‑ a gift, he says, bestowed by a loving, forgiving God.

That life-changing event has played out in a multiform ministry that has produced a series of bestselling books ‑ "The Case for Christ," "The Case for a Creator," "The Case for Faith" ‑ and a host of appearances on television, the Internet and the national speaker's circuit. The Washington Post calls Strobel "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists. Last year, he joined Houston Baptist University as a professor of Christian thought and the Woodlands Church as a teaching pastor. Later this month, his newest book, "The Case for Grace," will be issued by Zondervan Press.

HBU President Robert Sloan Jr. likens Strobel's story to that of the Apostle Paul, who was struck blind by God while en route to persecute Christians. "He was a hard case like Paul," Sloan says. "He started off in one direction, but got flipped."

Kerry Shook, pastor of Woodlands Church, one of the nation's fastest-growing evangelical congregations, says Strobel offers a unique perspective on Christian apologetics. "His evangelism has reignited our whole team," he says. "Our church just loves him."
Strobel's path to grace was harrowing, he says.

After the stunning blowup with his father, Strobel studied journalism at the University of Missouri, joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune and began racking up awards. He went to Yale to obtain a masters of law degree, then came back to the Tribune as legal editor.

As his career soared, his personal life tumbled. "People would see my awards," he says, "but they didn't see me drunk in the alley in the snow, literally." Once, he capped a quarrel with his wife by kicking a hole in a wall as his 5-year-old daughter watched.

Strobel say he rejected a heavenly father just as his father rejected him.

"I was angry," he says. "If there was no God, there was no accountability. I was a hedonist, pursuing pleasure."

When his wife, Leslie, joined an evangelical group in the late 1970s, Strobel was primed for divorce.

"I told her, 'If you need this crutch in your life, if you can't face life on your own, No. 1, don't talk to me about Jesus, and, No. 2, don't give any money to the church,'" Strobel says.

Still, Strobel was intrigued by the changes he saw in his spouse. "She was always a good person, but she was changing in a positive way," Strobel says.

One Sunday in early 1980, Leslie Strobel coaxed her hungover husband to attend her church.

Determined to save his wife from what he considered a cult, Strobel grabbed a notebook ‑ the better to pose as a reporter on assignment ‑ and went to the service.

"This kid gets up to preach, and his message was one of basic Christianity," Strobel recalls, adding that the sermon "knocked down my misperceptions one after another."

"I remember walking out ‑ I was still an atheist ‑ thinking that if this stuff is true, it has huge implications," Strobel says.

In coming weeks, Strobel wrestled with what he had heard, finally deciding to apply his journalistic skills to investigating God.

"I'd read books and try to get to the bottom line," he says. "I wanted it to be false, but on the other hand, I was a reporter. I had to call a ball a ball, a strike a strike, to look at both sides."

For 21 months, Strobel immersed himself in Christianity and science, grilling theologians, astrophysicists, archeologists and biochemists.

"It all came down to Nov. 8, 1981," he says. "I had gone to church with Leslie, and when I got home, I realized that after a year and nine months of collecting data, I had to reach a verdict."

Strobel retreated to a bedroom with a yellow legal pad, tallying up the pros and cons of his research. What resulted was "an avalanche of evidence for the powerful truth of Christianity."

"The scales tipped," says Strobel. "On the evidence of science, it was more likely than not that there was a creator. Based on the evidence of history, Jesus not only claimed to be divine but backed it up with resurrection. I felt really let down."

Then he recalled a verse from the Gospel of St. John: "...as many as received him, to them he gave the power to become sons of God."

"Ok, I believed on the basis of the data that Christianity is true," says Strobel. "But that wasn't enough. I had to receive His gift of free grace. I got down on my knees next to my bed and poured out a confession of a lifetime of immorality that would curl your hair. That's when I received forgiveness through Christ and became a child of God."

Rising from the bedside, Strobel found his wife in the kitchen.

"Leslie," Strobel told her, "for two years I've been reaching out, reaching for the living, resurrected son of God. I have given him my life."

"I almost gave up on you 1,000 times," he recalls her replying.

Strobel's growth in faith led to staff positions with megachurches in Chicago and Lake Forest, Calif., then a career as author and public speaker. For a time he hosted the national television program, "Faith Under Fire."

His presentations came with legalistic precision, as he rattled off assertions by scientists that the workings of nature ‑ from the structure of DNA to the expansion of the universe ‑ bore the handprint of God.

Strobel's transformation resonated with Christian leaders.

"If the Gospel can capture Lee's heart and life," marvels Southern Methodist University evangelism professor Elaine Heath, "it is possible for anyone to come to Christ."

Adam Greenway, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., says Strobel's story "has the ring of authenticity."

"There's nothing of the shyster or huckster in it," he says. "There's such a level of genuineness. You can't understate the power of that."

Dan Barker, a former Christian mission evangelist who now is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is not convinced.

"I used to believe in Christianity," he says, "but I painfully learned it was not true. I think people like Strobel have bought into a delusion and they are afraid of judgment, heaven and hell. Fear is underneath it all.

"My main criticism of Strobel is that he's just giving one side," Barker said. "He touts his experience in journalism for credibility, then turns around and acts nothing like a journalist."
Strobel says God "changed everything" in his life.

"It doesn't get any better than this," he says. "This is what I was reborn to do."

Strobel's father didn't live to see his son's transformation.

"I always wondered if I would cry when my Dad died," Strobel says. "I was in the Yale law school library when a friend told me the news. I did cry. When I went to his wake, I asked that the room be cleared and I stood in front of the coffin and said two things. I told him I was sorry for the things that I did to poison our relationship and I said that I forgave him. Too late. But then the oddest thing happened.

"People began to come into the wake and I was sitting off by the side. A man came up to me and said, 'Are you Lee? Oh man, I always wanted to meet you. Your dad never stopped talking about you. Every time you had a front page article, he'd cut it out and show it. He'd show pictures of your kids around the office. When you went to Yale, he bragged about it for weeks. I'm so glad to meet you."

If Strobel had one more meeting with his dad, "I would throw my arms around him," he says.
"I think he loved me in the only way he could. Unfortunately, there were wrongs on both sides," says Strobel. "I'd like to think he'd be excited by the path my life is taken. I'd like to think we'd be best friends."

真理海灘的拾貝者 by 道德利‧艾文斯（Dudley Evans）

『你們必認識真理，真理必叫你們得以自由。』（約翰福音八章三十二節。） 福音見證 大一那年的秋天當我初抵德州大學時，我自詡是個死硬派的無神論者。（在童年時代，我曾打發掉不少大好主日，坐在所謂的教堂裡，但那兒的假冒為善和內容空洞，使我對基督教教義的可靠性發生懷疑。）同一時期，我開始對科學推理的邏輯大為傾服，全心沉醉在達爾文的物種原始，以及其他基本生物科學的領域中。達爾文的論說看來十分合理，我不再認為需要一位創造萬有的主宰，從此把宗教丟棄一邊，開始應用一切實證科學來構築我自己的現實觀。 為了探究生命的真諦，我進入這所大學，期望從知識的寶藏裡，或許能找出存在的意義。『你們必曉得真理，真理必叫你們得以自由。』站在鑲刻這句聖經的學校行政大樓前，極為諷刺性的是，我記得我重複的念著這句話，發誓在離校之前，一定要找到『真理』。 那時我對『經驗實證』的科學方法深具信心，認為惟一能解開宇宙之謎的途徑，乃是徹底了解生物系統的分子動力及其組織。我開始研究細胞生物學、生物化學、以及神經心理學。當我一再思考生物化學與新陳代謝之間的奧妙關係，以及人腦的複雜而令人歎為觀止的奇妙構造時，對這一切如何形成感到驚訝不已。遺傳學家臆測自然界的形成是由於染色體內偶然的突變而逐漸發展成的。這種論調即使在我這位無神論者看來也甚荒謬，在『種』範圍內的變化是一回事，但根據基因內部一些無目標的差誤而來解釋單細胞與人之間的不同，則未免太過牽強。 這些問題已經遠非科學有限的領域所能回答，所以我開始涉獵不同學派的西方哲學。經過相當程度的探討和研究，我對他們所採取狹窄的『純理性』的心智方式感到十分失望，欲藉人類有限的心智，以及一些空泛抽象的理論以求揭開生命與自然界之謎，其結果是徒勞無功。因此我轉而多方閱讀經驗主義學派的作品，諸如沙特、卡繆，以及其他存在主義者的著作。我也嘗試各種探索精神意識的方法，諸如迷幻藥品、東方哲學和各種宗教。盼望藉著這些神祕宗教性的方式，來解答一些基本的存在難題；我甚至練習打坐默想，以求進入比精神領域更深一層的境界中。 最後我發現東方宗教中特有的『無物』、『大空』等說法，與西方存在主義者用以描述生命的『無理』、『無意義』等類說辭的內涵都甚相近。而打坐默想不過使我深刻的體驗到全人中心的虛無和空洞；在默想時所體驗的『平靜』，有如墳墓內的平靜─死寂而空渺。事實上我所閱讀的印度教及瑜珈術方面的書籍是挺不錯的，因為牠們領人達到一種和死亡十分類似的被動境界。但這當然不是我所期待的，我所要的是一道生命的流充滿我整個人，是有目的、意義和內涵的，而非虛空或被動。我需要從自我的束縛中解脫出來，而不是深陷其中。即使東方哲學和宗教裡最好的『超越自我』的道行也含有自我修練的成分，結果使人更深陷於自我之中。 到此為止，我清楚了三件事實： （一）我的人生虛空，沒有目的的活在一個看來毫無意義的宇宙裡。 （二）就我所知，很可能有一位神存在，但祂遠非我天然力量所能領會。 （三）拿撒勒人耶穌的生命和為人給我一種奇妙的吸引力。 大約就在那時，我發覺在我心思和肉體之間有著劇烈的衝突，每當我的心思朝著正面、積極、合理的方向時，我肉體中似乎就另有一種『生命』把我拖向相反的方向；而且對於盤繞已久關乎存在的意義和價值的問題，又不時的困擾我。我就逐漸追求瞬時的歡樂，但也不能獲得長久的滿足。 終於有一天我下定決心說，如果真有一位賜生命的活神，我最好探索一下祂是否能讓人們來經歷。記得那一晚獨坐室內，心頭實在虛空而沉重，我不顧一切的大聲呼喊，大概是說，『哦，神阿！如果你是真的，必定知道我渴慕真理；如果你的確存在，無論如何，讓我認識你罷！』就在那時，我覺得心裡的空隙被填滿了。我知道神正在奇妙的向我顯示祂自己！我不自禁的流下了眼淚，這實在太真實了！我覺得似乎有一種神聖的膏油，帶著喜樂和平安，滋潤著我的心田。我馬上清楚，這一位神必定是位赦罪的神，因為我長期以來，一直明明的和祂作對。不知為甚麼，我不能不思念著這位基督。 為了更佳的進入此一內在之樂，我採取瑜珈姿勢，正準備要打坐默想。就在那一剎那，聖經中一句耶穌對尋求者所說的話向我閃亮，耶穌說，『若有人要跟從我，就當否認己，背起他的十字架，並跟從我。』（太十六24。）我立刻從深處醒悟過來，耶穌基督的確是真實的，是祂的靈充滿我並重生了我。這個光照來得非常強烈而突然，震倒了我的瑜珈姿勢，使我仰跌在地上，承認說，『哦，我的神，你是真的！』我再度流淚。沉重的罪惡感和定罪的控告離我遠遠而去，耶穌的死和復活為我開了一條通往神的道路，祂赦罪的寶血覆庇了我；新生命澎湃洶湧的漫過我靈；永恆的門似乎就在眼前為我而開。東方的宗教和修行從此與我永遠絕緣了。 從受浸的那一天起，直到如今，基督在我裡面一日比一日更真實，我對祂的經歷也一日比一日更豐富。對所有還在尋求真理的人，我推薦那句鑲刻在本校行政大樓上，主耶穌的話：『你們必認識真理，真理必叫你們得以自由。』（約八32。）這位耶穌同時又說，『我就是道路、實際、生命。』（約十四6上。） 見證人　道德利‧艾文斯（Dudley Evans）

一個科學人尋求真理的經過=You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free

一個科學人尋求真理的經過

分類：基督信仰

2010/08/20 01:10

一個科學人尋求真理的經過

從小受科學教育長大的我認為：若是把科學與信仰，帶到真理的面前，要真理選邊站，真理必定是站在我們科學這邊。沒想到，我最後還是跌進宗教信仰裡，帶著三個遺憾而受浸的：

第一個遺憾

我一生受科學教育長大，最推崇我們學校(UT Austin)行政大樓上所刻的校訓：你必須追求真理，真理必使你重獲自由(You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free)。但是，聖經卻記載著耶穌在海上行走，耶穌死裡復活，這簡直是開玩笑。要我相信聖經，就等於要我放棄追求真理的心。

第二個遺憾

我很清楚，當我信主後，人們會用道德標準來壓我。例如：你不是基督徒嗎？你為什麼會生氣！你為什麼會黃線停車！我一生熱愛自由，尊重別人。因此，我非常不喜歡別人用道德重擔來壓我。想到這點，我就很傷心。

第三個遺憾

我們科學人一生都有崇高的目標：追求人類福祉，減少人類痛苦。我們滿了橫向關愛人類的心。反觀基督徒只關心自己跟神之間的關係，只關心多愛神。基督徒有垂直向的愛，但是，我們科學人有橫向的愛。如今，你們要我把橫向的愛轉成垂直向的愛，我一想到這點，除了傷心，還是傷心。]

請花20分鐘的時間，看完下面的見證。一個篤信科學的人，帶著三個遺憾而受浸信主。奇妙的主是如何抹去這位科學人的遺憾，使他願意站出來，訴說他已得到真正自由，來見證這位奇妙救主，如何從剛開始的祂愛我，到現在的我愛祂。

一個科學人尋求真理的經過（Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuyAlk8zbG8

一個科學人尋求真理的經過（Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxsvtfRQmM&feature=related

***** 我1969去 Austin 讀物理. 大概在1970年初. 我也看到這個教訓. 由於我是基督徒. 知道這是約翰福音的金句. 當時的感動與作者有點不同. 我體認到追求知識最後的目的是心靈的自由. 這個結論可能與作者的差不多吧!!

當時那裏只有一百多華人留學生. 當地華人家庭很少. 只有一些教授和一家餐廳老闆的家. 完全沒有華語福音事工. 我們幾位基督徒同學因對聖詩的喜愛. 每周五晚上在 浸信會學生活動中心聚集. 唱聖詩. 一開始由我帶領大家唱. 一位特殊教育所讀書的姊妹司琴. 只有10多位同學參加. 不到一年成長到50人左右. 我們相約主日去 Hyde Park 浸信會去聚會. 我們也成立查經班. 人數越來越多. Hyde Park 成立第一所華語教會. 現在 Austin 已有約10所華語教會.

此經文當年感動我們. 成立了查經班. 合唱團. 此經文也感動作者. 參加教會. 重生得救. 真是 萬事互相效力. 讓愛 神的人得益處. 阿門.

基督教信仰要義

基督教信仰要義

分類：基督信仰

2010/09/21 21:11

基督教信仰要義

「基督教信仰」是指：基督徒所共同相信的「信念」。而這個「信念」乃是上帝透過「聖經(上帝的話語)」對人類所啟示及教導的內容。這個「信念」包含了許多複雜的內容，但是可以把這些龐雜內容中最重要的幾個部份稱之為「基督教信仰要義」。下面論述基督信仰中最重要的十三個信念，扼要的簡述基督教信仰的要義：

1. 聖經的啟示
基 督徒相信聖經是上帝所默示的，是上帝的話語。上帝透過聖經將生命的真理啟示給世人；上帝也透過聖經，對我們說話。聖經提供基督徒在信仰及生命方面的最高指 導原則。透過聖經，人們可以更加認識自己生命的意義、目的、及價值，也能更加的認識這位創造生命的神。要相信基督教信仰的其他信念，必須要先相信聖經裡面 的記載、以及相信聖經是上帝的話語，因為基督教的所有信念主要都是根據聖經上的內容歸納而成。(相關訊息請參考：聖經《約翰福音》5:39、《使徒行傳》17:11、《羅馬書》9:25; 15:4、《哥林多前書》15:3-4、《加拉太書》3:22、《提摩太後書》3:15-16)

2. 上帝的創造
世 界萬物是上帝藉著祂的獨生子耶穌基督所創造而成，因此上帝是一切生命的源頭；所以一切關於生命的問題，只有這位創造生命的上帝，才能提供真正的答案。此外 上帝在創造人時，與創造其他萬物時有很大的不同；因為上帝只有在創造人的時候，是按照上帝自己的形象創造人，並要求人代替祂去治理祂所創造的世界萬。最重 要的是，只有人才能和上帝有直接且親密的互動關係。 (參《創世紀》1:1-2:25、《約翰福音》1:1-18、《 歌羅西書》1:15-18)

3. 人有罪
上 帝在創造人類始祖亞當時，將亞當創造為聖潔無罪且能享有永恆生命的人，也因此能與聖潔的上帝有著直接且親密的互動關係，而能蒙上帝的眷顧與祝福。但是後來 亞當因為違犯了上帝的誡命，成為罪人；並且還因此將罪惡帶入了這個世界，也使亞當之後的所有人們都活在罪惡的世界當中。人們開始不願聆聽上帝的命令及教 導，並且開始有許多不好的思想及行為，人們成為虛假、說謊、自私、貪心、忌妒、驕傲、沒有愛心的罪人。即使我們沒有觸犯任何一種人類制定的法律，即使在人 類法律的標準下是無罪的；但是從上帝及聖經的觀點來看，我們每一個人在無所不知及聖潔的上帝面前，都是不聖潔的「罪人」。並且人在罪當中，偏離了生命原有 的樣式，使人自己的生命以及人類世界產生許多可怕的問題。此外，也因為罪的出現，人開始要為自己的罪而付出不安、痛苦、及死亡的代價。人因為有罪，也失去 了上帝的祝福，失去了享有永恒生命的特權。(參《創世紀》1:26-6:12、 《以賽亞書》59:2、《羅馬書》5:12-21; 6:23)

4. 耶穌基督的降生
人 雖然得罪上帝，並且因為有罪而與上帝的遠離了。但是慈愛的上帝，祂愛我們，祂願意主動的去解決人有罪的問題，使人能夠恢復與祂有和好的關係，使人能重新蒙 受祝福並享有永恆的生命。於是上帝差遣祂的獨生子耶穌基督，降世為人，為要解決人有罪的問題。另一方面，上帝的兒子耶穌基督原本是神，卻願意降世成為人， 就是為了要將我們從罪惡當中拯救出來，使我們與聖潔的上帝和好、甚至使我們能透過祂而成為上帝的兒女。這就是聖誕節的意義：耶穌基督的降生，就是上帝要將 我們從罪惡中拯救出來的行動。(參《馬太福音》1:18-25、《路加福音》1:26-56; 2:1-21、《約翰福音》1:1-14; 3:16-18)

5. 耶穌在十字架上的受難與拯救
上 帝透過耶穌拯救我們的方法，就是由耶穌來代替我們的罪，成為我們的代罪羔羊，替我們的罪付出死亡的代價，並且死在十字架上；使我們的罪因為耶穌在十字架上 的流血與犧牲祂自己的生命而被上帝赦免，而被上帝認定是一位無罪的「義人」，而不是一位「罪人」；也因此能與上帝和好、蒙上帝祝福。所以聖經《羅馬書》3:23-25指出： 「因為世人都犯了罪，虧缺了　神的榮耀。如今卻蒙　神的恩典，因基督耶穌的救贖，就白白的稱義。」《羅馬書》5:8-10也說到：「惟有基督在我們還作罪人的時候為我們死，　神的愛就在此向我們顯明了。現在我們既靠著他的血稱義，就更要藉著他免去　神的忿怒。因為我們作仇敵的時候，且藉著　神兒子的死，得與　神和好，既已和好、就更要因他的生得救了。」《以賽亞書》53:5-10也說到：「因 (耶穌)受的刑罰我們得平安。因他受的鞭傷我們得醫治。我們都如羊走迷，各人偏行己路。耶和華(上帝)使我們眾人的罪孽都歸在他身上。...耶和 華卻定意將他壓傷，使他受痛苦。耶和華以他為贖罪祭。」(參《羅馬書》3:21-6:23、《 歌羅西書》1:15-22)

6. 耶穌的復活及升天
耶 穌雖然為我們的罪而受難、死在十字架上，並且被埋葬；但是在祂死後的第三天，上帝的大能讓耶穌從死裡復活 ；上帝也將掌管天上地下一切的權柄都賜給耶穌。耶穌復活之後，還顯現給祂的門徒及五百多人看，且教導他們有關天國的事達四十天之久。之後耶穌升到天上，在 上帝的右邊，替基督徒們祈求。 (參《馬太福音28:1-10》、 《馬可福音》16:1-20、《路加福音》24:1-53、《約翰福音》21:1-31、《使徒行傳》3:15、《羅馬書》6:9; 8:11,34、《哥林多前書》15:3-8、《以弗所書》1:20、 《彼得前書》1:3,21)

7. 因信稱義 (人可以因為信靠耶穌而被上帝視為是義人)
上帝應許：只要人接受耶穌成為他(她)的救主(拯救生命的神)，並相信耶穌為他(她)的罪在十架上受難，且相信耶穌從死裡復活，他(她)就能成為一位基督徒，而被上帝認定是一位無罪的「義人」，並且能成為上帝的兒女，重新蒙受上帝的祝福、得到永恆的生命。所以聖經《約翰福音》1:12記載：「凡接待他的，就是信他名的人，他就賜他們權柄，作上帝的兒女。」《約翰福音》3:16說到：「神愛世人，甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們，叫一切信他的，不至滅亡，反得永生。」因此，我們能得到耶穌的救恩(拯救的恩典)與祝福，不是靠著我們自己做善事、積功德；而是只要單單靠著相信耶穌。所以《以弗所書》2:8-9記載：「你們得救是本乎恩，也因著信；這並不是出於自己，乃是　神所賜的；也不是出於行為，免得有人自誇。」或許有些人會懷疑：「難道人只要相信耶穌，卻不用作任何努力、不用作善事，就能夠成為無罪的義人、蒙上帝的祝福，天底下哪有這種不勞而獲的事?」但是，一位真正慈愛的上帝，祂既然愛世人，祂就會透過很簡單、很容易的方法，讓我們能蒙受祂的愛與祝福! 這個方法就是只要我們願意相信耶穌。(參《約翰福音》14:6、《羅馬書》3:21-5:21; 10:9-10、《以弗所書》1:3-14；以及「如何成為一位基督徒」)

8. 受洗及聖餐
雖 然只要我們口裡承認耶穌是我們生命的主、心裡也相信上帝大能已經使耶穌從死裡復活，我們就必然能到耶穌的救恩、成為無罪的義人、與上帝和好；但是要成為基 督徒，還必須經過受洗的儀式之後，才能正式成為一位真正的基督徒。此外，成為基督徒後，也要定期的與其他基督徒聚集在一起，參與領受聖餐的儀式；因為耶穌 命令基督徒要透過這個儀式來紀念：耶穌為了要拯救我們而犧牲自己生命的受難行動，並且紀念祂透過祂的受難而立下了人可以透過相信耶穌而與上帝和好的約定。(參《馬太福音》28:19、《路加福音》16:16、《使徒行傳》2:38-42; 18:8; 19:5; 22:16、《羅馬書》6:4-8、《加拉太書》3:27、《歌羅西書》2:12、《希伯來書》10:19-23、《彼得前書》3:21-22；及《路加福音》22:14-20、《哥林多前 書》11:23-26；以及「為何需要接受洗禮」)

9. 教會的生活
聖 經強調基督徒的群體生活，而不是個別的孤立生活。從最起初開始，基督徒就是一個共同生活在一起的群體；這個群體被稱為「教會」。因此，「基督徒的生活」可 以說就是「教會的生活」。教會的生活就是基督徒依照聖經中的教導而過的生活方式。這個生活方式包括：讀聖經、禱告、參加教會的主日崇拜(星期天的禮拜)、與其他信徒之間的互動及交流、參與 教會的工作、奉獻、…等等。聖經也命令基督徒不可停止參加教會(基督徒)的聚會。此外，積極的參與教會的工作，也能幫助我們成為一位更虔誠且更蒙受祝福的基督徒。(參《使徒行傳》2:43-47、11-20章、《羅馬書》16章、《哥林多前書》12-14章、《以弗所書》3:10-21; 5:9、《歌羅西書》1章、《希伯來書》10:24-25)　

10. 聖靈的大能
耶穌基督復活升天之後，耶穌祈求上帝差遣「聖靈(神的靈)」到基督徒當中，並住在他們心中，引導他們能明白生命及聖經的真理，並幫助他們活出有基督同在的新生命。當基督徒遇到苦難時，聖靈也要賜給他們平安。聖靈也能在基督徒生命中施行神蹟奇事，使基督徒的生命彰顯出有神同在的祝福與大能。(參《約翰福音》14:16-31、《使徒行傳》1:8; 8-16章、《羅馬書》8:10-11、《哥林多前書》6:19、《希伯來書》2:3-4)　

11. 傳福音的使命
耶 穌吩咐每一位基督徒都要盡力的去幫助其他還沒信耶穌的人也能成為基督徒，使得別人的生命也能像自己一樣蒙上帝祝福。由於耶穌的這個命令是給每位基督徒的使 命，所以基督教稱這個命令為「大使命」。基督徒也將這個向他人介紹耶穌的行為稱之為「傳福音」，意思是：傳揚那個生命可以透過相信耶穌而蒙上帝祝福的佳 音。

(參《馬太福音》24: 10-14; 28: 19-20、《使徒行傳》1:1-11、《羅馬書》10: 9-15、《哥林多前書》9: 16-19、《提摩太後書》1: 8-12)

12. 耶穌再來及末世的審判
耶穌在末世的時刻(這個世界的終結時刻)，將會從天上再度降臨這個世界(基督徒稱之為「耶穌的再來」)，那時祂要審判世上所有的人。祂要按照我們每個人過去所做過的事(行善或是作惡)，審判我們，並決定我們將會得到賜福、或是會受到刑罰。此外，對那些相信耶穌並遵守神旨意的忠心基督徒，耶穌在審判時也要將永遠的福樂賞賜給他們；但那些棄絕耶穌、或是那些又惡又懶的基督徒，則會受到刑罰。

(參《馬太福音》19:28; 25:31-46、《約翰福音》5:22-29; 12:47-50、《使徒行傳》1:11、《羅馬書》2: 2-5、《提摩太後書》4:1-8、《希伯來書》10:27-30、《雅各書》5:9-12、《彼得前書》1:17-4:17、《彼得後書》2:4-3:7、《啟示錄》20:4-15)

13. 死人復活及永恆的生命
當耶穌在末世時刻再度降臨這個世界的時候，祂也要使信靠祂的所有基督徒從死裡復活，並且要將所有基督徒(不論是仍然活著的、或是剛從死裡復活的基督徒)的 身體變成為不會朽壞的身體，使他們不會再經歷到病痛或是死亡。此外，在那時耶穌也要把撒旦惡魔及死亡的勢力完全的消滅，並且讓這個世界將會變成為一個新天 新地，在那裡不再有死亡、也不再有悲哀、哭號、疼痛。此後，基督徒要永遠的在這個好的無比的新天新地中，與基督同在，享受永恆的福樂。(參 《羅馬書》6:4-11; 8:11、《哥林多前書》15:1-58、《帖撒羅尼迦前書》4:13-18、《啟示錄》21:1-21)

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