The Answerer

Q.117

‘Does God exist?’ and ‘How do we know God is real?’

Yes, I believe the evidence is all around us if we care to stop and think about it seriously.

Our ‘Blue Planet’ spins around once a day at 1,500 km/hr to give us night and day, it travels around the sun once a year at 30km a second, in its own orbit, and it tilts at 23 degrees as it spins to grant us winter, spring, summer and autumn. And – this is very important – we (our earth) are just the right distance from the sun (150,000,000 Km). Very convenient for growing things like millions of tonnes of food crops, chicken, fish, beef for burgers, etc. so we don’t get hungry. And, according to ‘The Galaxy song’ our Milky Way galaxy goes round (orbits) every 200 million years.

Phew! I did not know that!

BUT our Sun will only last another 2,000,000,000,000 years and then it will give a big ‘POUFFFF’ and the bits will go off to form some other sort of star. And…none of these planets and stars has a string like a Yo-Yo to keep them in orbit. Gravity, just gravity holds ’em all… just gravity in all of in their 400,000,000,000 individual orbits. Our galaxy, The Milky Way, has 400b. stars. From a Big Bang? I think not- God made it!

We humans enjoy music because, and unlike animals, we can dream or imagine things. We can make a grand piano, a clarinet, a trumpet and then compose and write music to play on those creations.(Joke: Elephants sound like a trumpet... because they can’t play a guitar.)

So that you can hear music in our wonderfully created ears…we are given minds to dream up ways of delivering music in a concert hall, your home, or your ear, while out walking. (Do please look out for busses while walking – they’re big and can flatten you). Humans can also dream or imagine, stuff like lasagne, ice-cream, pizza, chocolate, Black Forrest cake, and meat pies, and apple pies…and then set up gymnasiums to help us lose the extra weight by paying to work it off! Animals have none of those pleasures. Only humans, made in the image and likeness of God, can imagine, and make such things.

I do think that when God made little girls He did an excellent job. How would we manage without them, boys?

Humans are – this bit is scary – given the choice to do good, or to do evil things to other people. Animals are not given choices like that. Animals only kill to eat, to feed their young and protect their territory. Animals do not go to war; humans do. I think God would like all humans to be peaceful human beings, but sadly we are not. And greedy humans insist on cutting down forests of trees to make money. I think we should cut down a lot less trees and live much more simply by not buying so much ‘Stuff’. That was a bit long! Sorry.

I must mention The Ten Commandments. It is the basis of this ‘Christian’ nation, Australia (yes, Australia does have its faults). From the Ten Commandments we have ‘The rule of law’ i.e. police, judges, juries, jails, and a whole lot more. Maybe that is the reason so many people want to come here – or any country where the law is based on the Ten Commandments.

I have to mention butterflies, birds and flowers … just beautiful I say, and created by a loving God.

To begin with it makes some people very sad – and some people very happy. Those who loved you phone up all who knew you and they tell others. Then the funeral is arranged, and notices put in the paper to give details of where and when the funeral will be. For a young person killed suddenly and tragically many tears are shed. Your ‘earthly remains’ are buried and your soul/spirit goes to God.

The Bible says our spirit goes to God. Our spirit is indestructible. In the Bible it says in quite a few places that we will all stand before God to answer for all we have done, and there will be a judgement day for all the nations at the end of this age.

The Apostle Paul wrote that he longed to be in heaven with Christ, which ‘…would be far better.’ Paul was converted from a ‘Christian hater’ and a ‘rounder up of Christians to have them tried and probably killed’ into a very different person.

A few years after Jesus was killed and rose to life again, Saul was very soundly ‘converted’ and his name changed to Paul. Jesus spoke to him from the sky after he was knocked off his horse by an invisible hand. You can read of how this happened in the Book of Acts, chapter 9. It is known among journalists as ‘A Damascus Road experience.’ Every sports journalist seems to have been taught it – a 180 degree turnaround in your life – be it for a coach, player or manager, etc. So Christians are not at all afraid of death, atheists don’t care and some people are scared of dying. They do not have to be.

In heaven, after our death, and at ‘the Second Coming’ Christian believers, will be given new spiritual bodies, like Jesus had after He rose from the grave. Wow! No pain, tears, no night, or death, or dying. (Rev. chapter 22)

Q.119

‘Who created God and why?’

Good question, thank you. I do not think that anybody knows the answer to this one, I do not.

So you will just have to wait till you die and ask him that question when you see him. It will all be revealed - somehow.

Q.120

‘Are there actually people that have gone to hell or is it just a lie?’

No! It is not just a lie.

Jesus told the story of two people: one went to hell and one went to heaven. The story was to let people know that there would be a separation after we die. See Luke chapter 16 and verses 19 to 31. I have in my possession the story of a man who was dying (over 100 years ago) and wanted to tell someone before he died, of how he had died for several hours while working in a coal mine.

He was in jail and was made to work in a coalmine. The roof collapsed on him and he was buried for several hours. He was a criminal and a horse thief and had led a very wicked life. He told the story of what he saw and heard when he went to hell. It was dark and horrible.

He later did come back to life in the morgue. After a spell in hospital he quickly found a preacher and became a Christian but told no one about what he saw and heard because they put you in the lunatic asylum if you told such stories in those days. Only in his last days did he tell his story to a friend.

I am not going to tell about it here but be assured, punishment awaits wicked people.

Stories can be found on WWW – but do be careful. False stories do not honour God, nor do they fit with what the Bible says or they want to sell you something exciting. I spent some time on the www re. hell, and near death experiences, ‘I went to hell’ videos, etc. be careful! Be sure that the stories honour God, Jesus or the Bible and are not trying to ‘get you in’ or sell you something. Ask for guidance from God to be wise.

Q121: Does heaven and hell exist?

I say an emphatic ’Yes,’ because Jesus said they did and what Jesus said is worth listening to (and keeps the heat off you later).

I looked up the WWW on ’out of body experiences’ of ’hell’ and ’heaven’. Please do not be fooled: hell is for ’God rejecters’ and is not a very pleasant place.

To make a losing bet on earth is a disappointment. To find you ’bet’ wrongly about heaven and hell is a very serious loss indeed – it lasts for eternity.

There was one video of an evil man, convicted of, and jailed for manslaughter, who later, actually ’died’ during an operation and saw the fires of hell, and dead men he had known on earth warned him away. He said he felt the heat of it. It was very like the hell that Jesus spoke of in Luke 16 in Q.120. On the video, at home, dressed and in a large chair, he looked to me to be a man at peace with God, and a happy and relieved man who is now a serious Christian.

I believe hell is very real and there is no second chance! Be very clearly warned! Too many people today, on and off the WWW, are ’False Christians’ and want to be famous and get your money. If a WWW site urges you to: ’…send your money in today to this great cause,’ or ’…send your money for this great book now – it is only $54.95, down from $98.50, just for this week.’ Be smart, stay away from ’go getters’ and money grabbers.

A true Christian person or group, will offer you free help and advice and leave it up to you to send money with no pressure to: ’…give money today.’ There is a difference.