What God’s Up To on Planet Earth?

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Mark J. Keown. What God’s Up To on Planet Earth?

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People have mixed feelings about the Christian faith – some are indifferent to it, some are actively hostile to it, and some view it as an artefact of history.

But it is also an undeniable fact that, all the time, there are people moving towards and embracing Christianity. Sometimes suddenly, often gradually, they experience a significant change in their lives, accompanied by major shifts in their beliefs, attitudes and values.

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Relationship with Each Other

Humanity was not created only to love God. Secondly, and equally fundamentally, we were created to express the love placed in us by God to one another. God formed Eve from Adam and they became one (marriage) and had children. The family based upon a harmonious marriage between a man and a woman is the basic unit of human society. In its ideal form, it embodies the concept that humanity can live in harmony, loving, respecting and honouring one another with the same love God has for each person.36 Consequently, Jesus said that the second greatest commandment is to ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’37 A deep examination of the teaching of the Bible indicates that love for God and for each other is thoroughly intertwined.38 That is, a failure to love others is in effect a failure to love God, in whose image we are made.39

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