Welcome to Lion of Judah – for all!
Over the millennia, countless innocent people have been tormented, abused, tortured, murdered, burned in wars … and all in the name of all religions.
But a look at history shows that in this area the „Christian“ churches in particular, together with Islam, have surpassed all other religions by far – completely contrary to what Jesus taught!
Every single one of these victims is a sad reason why we in Lion of Judah are not concerned with any religious worldview, but with the most important question for us humans:
Why do we exist at all – and what comes after?
There are definitely two possible answers:
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Either – there is no reason at all and consequently no after for us.
Our consciousness, our own I, has just as much meaning as a stone, or that pile that an elephant has just dropped in the savannah – because everything that exists has only come about by chance and any further development through evolution.
However, several of our natural laws contradict this, for example the second law of thermodynamics states that disorder in a closed system, such as our universe, is constantly increasing.
But how can countless groups of galaxies, consisting of billions of suns with stable planetary systems – let alone complex organic life forms like us – emerge from a chaotically swirling plasma?
2.
Or else – SOMETHING had something in mind,
when it, according to the current state of scientific knowledge, created with our universe almost 14 billion years ago the dimensions
- of space (the height, width and depth that our body itself occupies and in which we can move),
- the dimension of time (through which we can attain consciousness, but which unfortunately also represents a one-way street with a beginning and an end for us)
- and energy/matter (of which we physically consist and which we also constantly need to live),
was created out of „nothing“ in a so-called „big bang“.
Even purely investigative sciences, such as archaeology, show that not even something as banal as a plastic bag has been created by chance in the past 4.5 billion years of our solar system!
So if we are not mere coincidence, but part of a grand plan, then there must inevitably be a creator of plan and work – but what does this creator actually want from us humans?
We find the simple answer to this question from the God who presents himself to us in the Bible in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, verse 27, among other places
To love HIM, the Creator, with all your heart – and to love all other people in the world just as much as you love yourself.
Point – no more – but also no less! – Sure, there is still a lot for us to learn, but according to HIM, this single sentence already contains everything that is decisive!
It seems that this God knows us personally and knows how important this question is for each and every one of us.
We find this, His answer, in many places in the Bible, „His Word“, from its first book (Genesis) to the end (Revelation).
Over a period of well over a thousand years, answered for all peoples and all generations by a wide variety of people inspired by His Spirit.
For me personally, His answer is most impressive here – in the parable of the Good Samaritan, when Jesus was asked by a scribe of all people under what conditions a person could achieve eternal life (i.e. an existence of one’s own self in a dimension „above“ the transient levels of space and time).
As simple as God’s answer to humanity’s most important question may sound, the second part is already difficult enough for us – loving our counterpart as we love ourselves (actually, we can only decide to do so first and then behave accordingly) – but how could we ever love something we don’t even know? – That simply can’t work!
Love requires a certain relationship, i.e. the willingness on both sides and, of course, the time it takes to build and maintain every relationship – including the one with God.
As far as God is concerned – HE promises EVERYONE who seeks HIM that he will find HIM, which means: this almighty builder of the whole universe is already waiting with open arms for each and every one of us!
However, as far as we and the whole of humanity are concerned – the conscious decision for a personal relationship with his Creator – to seek this God and to enter his family – or not, each person makes for himself alone and can only do it for himself.
What particularly impresses me about this God of the Bible is that he does not demand blind allegiance, but challenges us to test HIM – and everything else (i.e. including these pages) – and to keep only what is good!
HE wants to reveal Himself to us personally and you won’t find that in any other religion in the world!
If you are willing to walk with us on this path of the Creator, all of us at Lion of Judah want to help you to get to know HIM in the first place – and then to get to know HIM better and better.
Simply because we ourselves have decided to follow His invitation and we are aware that no human being can walk this path of life with God alone. –
If only to practise love for one another, we need each other
It is a path that requires constant searching, learning, forgiving each other and ourselves – but above all recognising that none of us is perfect by ourselves or will ever be in this life.
For all the trouble this „narrow path“ causes – we are convinced that the Creator’s reward of spending eternity with HIM, and together with our brothers and sisters from all ages – far exceeds the cost for all people who are willing to pay the price here and now!
Shalom! (The wish for peace, health, well-being and all good things for you)
Bernd Hagel for Lion of Judah Ministries