Brice's story illustrates the theme of this August 15, consciousness.
Our world has changed little since the days of Noah: "People were eating, drinking, marrying, were given in marriage [...]" (Luke 17.27). The men, good citizens, enjoy life, despite the evil acts they commit. They are religious, insofar as they believe in a creator God, but for anything, they want to question the priorities their existence. Indeed, their consciousness is impaired. But after the verse is clear: "[...] until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all" (Luke 17.27)
The flood is the representation of baptism as symbolic, the baptized dies with a guilty conscience when it is immersed. When he emerges from the water, it is raised with a new consciousness. Baptism is "not the removal of dirt, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. "(1 Peter 3.21)
The attitude of the contemporaries of Noah takes us back to our own conscience. Thus, fear of death, religion and the church does not make us Christians. It therefore appears that only the abandonment of the world, even his own life for the salvation of others is the only way to accomplish God's plan: "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever lose the find. "(Luke 17.33) The reference here is the fruit of a good conscience. This "death to himself," as Jesus Christ lived, is humanly impossible to accept. Only force and superior power of our Savior we can.
Brice was born in a Christian evangelical. Since its childhood, he had no doubt he is a believer, like men talking about Luke, despite some lapses. This comfort is disrupted when visiting the website of the church: an extraordinary heat up in him and an inner voice urged him to read the Bible, it was only very occasionally before. This experience illustrates the thought of Tertullian, Church Father: "One is not born a Christian, one becomes one." The report by Brice with God and the design of its existence has been radically changed, so he was baptized in this sunny day the largest baptistery in the world, not far from our place of regular appointment.
Our world has changed little since the days of Noah: "People were eating, drinking, marrying, were given in marriage [...]" (Luke 17.27). The men, good citizens, enjoy life, despite the evil acts they commit. They are religious, insofar as they believe in a creator God, but for anything, they want to question the priorities their existence. Indeed, their consciousness is impaired. But after the verse is clear: "[...] until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all" (Luke 17.27)
The flood is the representation of baptism as symbolic, the baptized dies with a guilty conscience when it is immersed. When he emerges from the water, it is raised with a new consciousness. Baptism is "not the removal of dirt, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. "(1 Peter 3.21)
The attitude of the contemporaries of Noah takes us back to our own conscience. Thus, fear of death, religion and the church does not make us Christians. It therefore appears that only the abandonment of the world, even his own life for the salvation of others is the only way to accomplish God's plan: "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever lose the find. "(Luke 17.33) The reference here is the fruit of a good conscience. This "death to himself," as Jesus Christ lived, is humanly impossible to accept. Only force and superior power of our Savior we can.
Brice was born in a Christian evangelical. Since its childhood, he had no doubt he is a believer, like men talking about Luke, despite some lapses. This comfort is disrupted when visiting the website of the church: an extraordinary heat up in him and an inner voice urged him to read the Bible, it was only very occasionally before. This experience illustrates the thought of Tertullian, Church Father: "One is not born a Christian, one becomes one." The report by Brice with God and the design of its existence has been radically changed, so he was baptized in this sunny day the largest baptistery in the world, not far from our place of regular appointment.
