{"id":8618,"date":"2012-03-04T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:36:56","slug":"i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/i-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"I Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/i-believe\/on-edge-of-clif\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8619\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8619\" title=\"on edge of clif\" src=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/on-edge-of-clif-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/on-edge-of-clif-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/on-edge-of-clif-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/on-edge-of-clif-90x59.jpg 90w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/on-edge-of-clif.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI believe\u201d\u2026.these are words filled with content. They imply that I have made some choices about faith, life and eternity. It\u2019s easy for the skeptic to jeer from the bleachers at those of us of faith, but to be a person of faith gives me a great place to rest and view the world around me. \u201cI believe\u201d means I have made some choices\u2026.I have chosen to trust someone or something. Here are a few of the things I believe-<\/p>\n<p>I believe there is one God in three persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit, maker of heaven and earth.<br \/>\nI believe the <a type=\"amzn\">Bible<\/a> is the word of God, inspired and preserved by God, and without errors, conflicts or defects.<br \/>\nI believe Jesus Christ is God, come in flesh to provide salvation for the human race.<br \/>\nI believe there is salvation in no one else other than Christ\u2026there is no other name in heaven or earth that will provide salvation for mankind.<br \/>\nI believe he really did die on a cross to pay my sin debt, and faith in him and his sacrifice will provide eternal salvation.<br \/>\nI really do believe in heaven and hell.<br \/>\nI believe that God actually did make the heavens and earth in 6 days.<br \/>\nI believe in Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, and all the other stories of the bible\u2026I believe these people really existed and I look forward to meeting them some day.<br \/>\nI believe that God is who he says he is\u2026he is sovereign, Lord of heaven and earth, the only God.<br \/>\nI believe that God loves the human race, and desires that all men be saved.<br \/>\nI believe there are angels, demons and the devil just because the bible says so.<br \/>\nI believe\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There is so much more, but let me stop here. What I want to say clearly is that I have made some choices\u2026.I believe the Bible. I believe it\u2019s all true. I have staked my eternity on it, and do it with great joy. I have a sure hope, and look forward to seeing God face to face.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know that when any of us takes a position of faith we become a target for those who disagree. But to make a stand is so important, to know what you believe and why is vital for each of us\u2026.where do you stand? Do you have a list of \u201cI believe\u201d for your life? Are you bold enough to share them? Are they important enough to change your life and eternity?<\/p>\n<p>What do you believe?<\/p>\n<p>Visit Mike at <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemesserli.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Finishing Well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822\/US\/christ03-20\/8005\/b28f0a58-c705-469c-bbd6-d92624c2a11e\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript>&lt;A HREF=&#8221;http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fchrist03-20%2F8005%2Fb28f0a58-c705-469c-bbd6-d92624c2a11e&amp;Operation=NoScript&#8221;&gt;Amazon.com Widgets&lt;\/A&gt;<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe\u201d\u2026.these are words filled with content. They imply that I have made some choices about faith, life and eternity. It\u2019s easy for the skeptic to jeer from the bleachers at those of us of faith, but to be a person of faith gives me a great place to rest and view the world around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/i-believe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Believe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[1504,3855,3845,3853,508,3850,3847,3851,635,1199,3857,2393,3846,3849,3848,3856,3852,3161,3854,119],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-mike","tag-bible-people","tag-bleachers","tag-demons-and-the-devil","tag-eternal-salvation","tag-eternity","tag-faith-life","tag-father-son-and-holy-spirit","tag-god-face","tag-great-joy","tag-heaven-and-earth","tag-heaven-earth","tag-jesus-christ","tag-jonah-and-the-whale","tag-maker-of-heaven-and-earth","tag-noah-and-the-ark","tag-skeptic","tag-sovereign-lord","tag-target","tag-three-persons","tag-word-of-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}