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Issue #57 of Reaching Out Magazine

Peace With God

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  • The atomic bomb brought a swift end to World War II sixty-three years ago. The whole world welcomed the peace (?).
  • For forty-some years Yugoslavia enjoyed peace (?) under the strong communist dictator Tito. Many years later, with the butchery going on among the various ethnic groups of Croatia and Bosnia, did we understand what simmering hatred Tito was able to suppress?
  • Many husbands and wives fight. Their children’s lives are torn up until in some cases peace (?) is restored through divorce.

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Why Beauty in Nature?

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“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

The complexity and order in nature from the billions of bits of precise DNA information on our genomes(Psalm 139:16) to the life cycle dependency of organisms in our ecosystem (Psalm104:14) are proof of God. But beyond that, that we find beauty in creation reveals a personality of emotion, pleasure, and goodwill (Revelation 4:11; 1 Timothy6:17). God’s predominate trait is love. “God is love” (1 John 4:16). This is not a selfish love of self-gratification but is revealed in seeking the welfare and delight of mankind. It reveals itself in nature, in beauty, designs, and miraculous innovations that could not self-organize from random chaos (Ecclesiastes3:11).

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Taking God’s Way

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The Way . . .

Jesus died to provide the way.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John5:12).
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).

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