Mini Blog- #002- What happens to people who have never heard of God?

An interesting question put to me but definitely a tricky one to answer. 

Firstly I am going to start by saying technically 2nd Mini Blog which aims to answer questions and just to keep up to date on general matters or interesting things of interest I suppose.

For today I have got this question to answer as best I can, as well as a bunch of 5 books called "The Little Black Books" which i have ordered and hear are easy to read and really useful.

So starting with the question "What happens to people who have never heard of God?". 

The bible says that through faith alone we are saved, of course there are many verses about this including:

1 Timothy 6:11- "...pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness."

Hebrews 11:6- "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

Matthew 13:58- "And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith."

The Hebrews and Matthew passages speak of consequences of not having faith whilst the 1 Timothy verse is telling you to have faith. This all being said then, it is impossible to please God without faith, if you have no faith then how can you be saved.

Ephesians 2:8-10- "⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

Therefore concluding this part spreading the word of God is important to people being saved. God of course already knows what is going to happen but spreading the word of God not only strengthens yourself but gives people that knowledge of God's work and how important faith is. As well as this I won't ever truely know God's plan but I know that his plan is one beyond imagination.

Websites-->

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NIV

http://www.quotesl.com/bible/Faith

This next bit is about a group of 5 books called "The Little Black Books" by Scott Petty, which I have ordered recently but having not read them I am told they are very useful and handy, good read and fairly easy to read. They're not big they're quite small books really. 

The five book titles are:

The Bible

Predestination

Suffering and Evil

Sex

"What's Life all About?"

Really not expensive either, about $7 per book so if you get all 5 that's $45,hopefully if I got my maths right, it will be a good bit of reading no doubt and hopefully you will also get them.

That's all today, until I do a next Blog or Mini Blog, keep praying and reading the bible as I will. =)

Chris

Mini Blog- #001-Books & Music attempt 2

Ok so after something happened to my previous mini blog I thought I would try again. In case you don't know though the mini blogs are here for general question answering or interest for you to enjoy. 

There is a lot of good Books and Music out there that will encourage you and uplift your Christian life I will put links to all book websites and song websites in case you want to have a look.

So then firstly books. There is a book I am reading currently called "50 Reasons Jesus came to die", it's by John Piper, very recommended as I never realised just how many reason Jesus died for us, John of course says that there is heaps more reasons, but the 50 there are great reasons.

Another good book i'm sure will be good, i'm started this Wednesday, is 'The Blueprint', my youth leader say's it is a good study book to look through.

Secondly is songs and music, of which there is a lot and is easily accessible from iTunes or music stores or even at your church.

Singers and bands I like include Chris Tomlin, Newsboys, Garage Hymnal, Matt Redman, Hillsong United and Kristian Stanfill.

So hopefully you find these interesting and yeh you can email me at cdaniel1993@yahoo.com.au or fb message me questions or stuff I could mention next time.

Until later though =D

Books:

http://www.desiringgod.org/ 

http://droku.bigcartel.com/product/the-blueprint-a-revolutionary-plan-to-plant-missional-communities-on-campus

http://jaesonma.com/

Music:

http://www.mattredman.com/

http://www.garagehymnal.com/

http://www.christomlin.com/

http://newsboys.com/v09/

http://www.kristianstanfill.com/

what happened?

Ok so basically I did have a mini blog which for some reason it has disappeared but I will try to redo that as soon as possible.

Until sometime =)