My Wise Generation

Ultimately, the validity of the Christian faith lies on one historical period, the birth and life of Jesus Christ.  There is substantial legal-historical proof for both the virgin birth and correlation of fulfilled prophecy in the life of Jesus Christ.  It is far to substantial to go into depth on a simple post.  Recommended readings for this are both Lee Strobel's "The Case For Christ", Josh McDowells "The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict" and "More Than a Carpenter".  I would also recommend reading counter-points and critical perspectives to gain a complete understanding.

Evidences of both the miraculous birth and life of Jesus Christ are established in historical records beyond those who partook in the writing of the Bible, even the Koran confirms the virgin birth of Jesus Christ took place 500 years before the birth of Muhammad(*1). 

A student of philosophy wrote a great article that concluded the following points (understanding of historical evidences and contexts is assumed, otherwise these points will appear assumed - it is recommended you dig into the historical evidences yourself to verify these points):

Four “core facts” which even the skeptics admit ...

a) Jesus was a real man, who lived and then died by crucifixion. Check out your history: Crucifixion was a cruel (but effective) method of death by torture. Victims died not from actual wounds but by suffocation, from the weight of their bodies hanging from outstretched arms. The Roman soldiers attending crucifixions were experienced in their work and could tell who was dead and who wasn’t.

b) The disciples saw something and they believed it was the risen Jesus. (The theory of mass hallucination doesn’t fly because, as psychology will tell us, it simply doesn’t happen.)

c) Their lives were totally transformed, even to the point of death. Now, at first glance, this may not seem much to us who have heard of things like the Jim Jones cult, Koresh, and Heaven’s Gate—but we aren’t talking about a case of mass suicide here. This is a group of (at least) eleven men, who went out to different parts of the world, devoted to the same cause, and who all separately suffered torture and met their deaths rather than renounce what they believed was the risen Jesus. Doesn’t anyone think that at least ONE of those men, if they had been privy to some sort of scam, would have spoken up rather than face martyrdom?

d) Lastly, one Saul of Tarsus, bitter enemy of the followers of Christ, is converted—HE believes he sees the risen Jesus, and it transforms his life to the point that he devotes his life to preaching, suffering, and dying for Christ.

For those well versed in the history of this era, these established logical deductions make a case for rational belief in both the life and ressurrection of Jesus Christ.  

There are those who have suppressed these evidences for the benefit of their self-indulgent philosophies of life.  Jesus Christ promoted both love and compassion for one another.  His philosophy is of non-violence and community.  Yet, his philosophy is looked at in outrage by those who do not believe.  Instead of looking at the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, they look to disprove his existence by looking at those who believe in him.  This is fundamentally flawed, as Jesus himself said no good could come from the evil creatures we are.

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone." - Luke 18:19

The beauty of Christ's teachings is that he bridges our evil lives with that of the goodness of God.  We can indeed be good, but only through a relationship with God.  Jesus allowed man to truly be good by giving him communion through God with his life.  Goodness, in this sense, is not what the world deems good, but what God deems good.  Since men are fundamentally evil, they will fail at doing the good God want's them to do.  This is merely common sense.  Looking to Christians without looking at Jesus Christ as the ultimate verification of Christianity is fundamentally flawed. 

*1: http://www.islam-101.org/

*2: http://shenandoahdawn.com/ibelieve.html

Obama and congress, who believe they can bring about the salvation of our current societal corruption are setting themselves up for disappointment.  Those who embrace man-made government as a feasible solution to any form of corruption will find their thirsts unquenched.  This truth translates across both ends of the political aisle.

A society is never fixed by it's goverment, a government is established by it's society.  If the people become corrupt, the government becomes reflective of that corruption.  We decieve ourselves when we blame those of particular parties for societal or government corruption.

For years America has sown her seeds in the flesh.  She has moved from the spirit of God to the spirit of lust, greed and materialism.  In the process, her soul was corrupted, and in turn, her government was corrupted.  It is purely human that in the years of her reaping the corruption she has sown, her blame is shifted to those in power.

We in America have none to blame but ourselves.  Our love for money.  Our love for sex.  Our love for lust, our drive for living a life at the expense of the life of others.  In our pride, we have elevated ourselves higher than our brothers and sisters.  In our elevation, we now fall without a love for truth.

Pain is much more devastating when there is no true understanding of the source.  In a bitter attempt to abolish the spiritual pain of America.  We turn our faces to those in power in hopes that they can save us from the seeds we have sown.  Although those in power genuinely believe they can fix the corruption through more government presence - they are bandaging the symptoms of the issue, not curing the source.

Government expansion as a solution to a corrupt society is equivalent to placing a bandaid on an infected wound.  The bandaid may stop the bleeding, but if it goes untreated, the infection will continue to spread throughout the body.  The spirit of America is dying, and unless she goes back to the one who can cleanse the soul of corruption, Jesus Christ, the man made bandages we create merely postpone the inevitable.

Ravi Zacharias once said about our generation, "How do you reach a generation that listens with its eyes and thinks with its feelings?"

C.S. Lewis once wrote "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - The Problem of Pain

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest." - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity