Overcoming the walls of blind faith and distrust
Finally, we reach the “Creator in the midst of creation”!
Rational and Solid Christian Answers

For undecided seekers and skeptics, this book illuminates the profound value and importance of Christianity, making it more timely than ever.
Through this book, you will come to understand that the Christian God is deeply involved in the present and that He will make whole those in this lost world.
Here is a Christianity that transcends time and space, a truth more real than any other thought in human history, a truth more real than reality.
Shake the flimsy foundation of life you've been standing on, and build your life on an unshakable rock!

Belief in God is a serious reality for four out of five people in the world, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
At this point, the following question will immediately arise:
"Why is this? Why does religion continue to grow despite such fierce opposition from secularism?" Some might say it's because most people are uneducated, while others, more bluntly, might say it's because most people are stupid.
But a more thoughtful, non-misanthropic answer is needed.
There are two clear answers to the question of why religion continues to survive and grow.
One explanation is that, for many, secular reason lacks something essential to living well.
Another explanation is that many people intuitively perceive a transcendent world beyond the natural world.
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This is Nietzsche's point.
If you do not believe in God, but believe in the rights of all people and that we should care for all the weak and the poor, then you are still holding Christian beliefs, whether you admit it or not.
For example, why should we consider love and violence, which are part of life and deeply rooted in human nature, as good and reject the other as evil? Both are simply a part of life.
Where do such criteria for selection come from? If there is no God or supernatural world, such criteria would not exist.
No one has properly refuted Nietzsche, who criticized secular humanism.
Commenting on the work of George Eliot, Nietzsche foresaw that the English-speaking world would eventually abandon belief in God, yet retain values ​​such as compassion, universal mercy, and conscience.
Nietzsche predicted that in a society that rejects God, morality itself would eventually become a “problem.”
It will become increasingly difficult to justify or motivate morality, people will become more selfish, and there will be no means of controlling them other than coercion.
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Learn to love God more, not to love anything less.
Then the satisfaction that comes from loving everyone else is much greater.
There's no need to be overprotective, no need to have unreasonable expectations, and no need to constantly get angry when someone doesn't meet your expectations.
Instead of suppressing your passionate love for anything, turn your highest love toward God.
Love Him with all your heart, not for what you get in return, but simply for His sake.
Only then can satisfaction be found.
This is satisfaction from a Christian perspective.
This perspective avoids both the ancient strategy of achieving equanimity through detachment and the modern strategy of achieving happiness through acquisition.
Our deep-seated problem of dissatisfaction, which seems incurable, is explained and solved by this.
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True freedom comes from strategically losing some freedoms and gaining others.
True freedom is not the absence of constraints, but choosing the right constraints and freedoms to lose.
Some people might disagree with this view.
We can admit that freedom chooses constraints.
But then you can say this:
“But even this limitation was my choice.
So, by today's definition, I am still free.
Because I am free to do as I please.”
This is overly simplistic logic.
Most of life's inevitable limitations are not ones you freely choose, but rather are simply limitations that the world imposes on you.
Such limitations exist regardless of your desires or choices.
For example, the human body is born with certain things it can and cannot do.
To enjoy freedom of the body, when the body reaches its limit, you must not try to overcome it in vain, but rather simply submit your will.
If you eat right and exercise properly, you will gain freedom in life, but if you reject these methods, you will lose energy, health, and eventually even freedom.
This is far from the postmodern concept of ‘creating the self.’
As with many things, the “appropriate” constraints that bring liberation are not something you can create to your own taste.
This is the harsh reality of humanity and the world.
And you don't choose it, you submit to it.
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147-148

If I base my identity on what Jesus Christ has done for me and the fact that I have received an eternal name through grace in Him, then I can neither feel superior to anyone nor fear anyone.
There is no need to compare yourself to them at all.
The foundation of my identity is in the One who was excluded for me, the One who was cast out because of me, the One who loved my enemies.
So I too am becoming a person who embraces others.
Of course, there are many times when Christians do not recognize the resources given to them or are unable to live with them.
But the world needs countless people who have the ability to live like that.
The gospel pushes us and gives us that power.
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The primary way to know God concretely is not through our philosophical reasoning, but through His self-revelation, not through our thinking first, but through what He says.
Of course, Christians believe that God did that through Jesus.
If Jesus' claims about himself are true and he rose from the dead, this is powerful evidence that not only does God exist, but that Jesus is the God of the Old and New Testaments.
Therefore, the main argument for believing in Christianity is Jesus himself.

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