We can blame our forebears for this mind-blowing curse, starting with Adam and Eve, our relatives who had everything going for them and chose to absolutely blow their and our paradise life by turning their back and disobeying (sinning) against their/our loving Creator and suffering the consequences of spiritual death and ultimate horror by turning God’s wonderful gift of love into anger. Why? Because you can’t have a loving God without a wrathful God—in other words, a just God. Think about that. Would you want your best friend or your mom to be treated in the same way as Hitler or Stalin?
But God came up with a plan to save our ancestors, as well as you and me.
What if someone handed you a reading that would give you the key to banishing your greatest fear…but you refused to read it?
My greatest fear is that you will ignore the greatest gift anybody ever got, presented in this request you have begun to read.
This very well be at least the second most important reading you will ever encounter.
It should scare you spitless.
Then it will provide the most thrilling good news anyone ever heard of, designed with you in mind!
I hope you will click and read to the end. But just in case you are a typical young person, I’ll pull out the tools of my 40-year journalist’s career when I was a media spokesperson under nine presidents. A reporter could get an answer from me packaged as a 10-second soundbite…or opt for 30 seconds, 60 seconds or the full meal deal.
10-second soundbite
You and I have been facing a certain ghastly, grotesque, terrifying and endless future of our own doing.
Without a radical and total turnaround, we’re utterly doomed forever and ever.
How’s that? We have no choice but to get it fixed now!
30-second soundbite
Our Creator has offered us the best gift in the universe: a most beautiful, everlasting, joyfully productive, exhilarating adventure “above and beyond all that we could think or imagine.” Only if we accept his free gift of eternal life with Him by changing our mind about our wrongful, selfish ways and inviting Jesus into our lives to completely take over and give us new life.
It keeps getting better.
60-second soundbite
A friend put off committing his life fully to Christ, thinking about all that he thought he might have to give up. Instead, he was astounded at all the joys and peace he gained when he surrendered his life to Jesus, the One Who gave up His life in our place to rescue us from certain torment and destruction. “The thief [enemy, devil] comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].” --Jesus
Why not accept His free gift of eternal life today by telling Him that you repent (turn from your sinful ways) and want to live for Him from now on? [Sin means evil and selfish thoughts, words and actions that displease God, which only He can help us overcome in the midst of our challenges and setbacks].
Some of you may be thinking, “I’ve heard all this before, but people have convinced me that it’s all fairy tales and exclusive, leaving out billions of people."
I’ve lived long enough to have learned answers (the hard way) and also researched some of the objections and alternatives, and I fervently hope this book will provide answers. Do you want to learn the hard way...or a better way?
WARNING: Becoming a follower of Christ is not necessarily easy. Some think it must be like riding down an escalator, a smooth life free of trouble. More likely it is like struggling your way UP a down escalator. Here comes an evil temptation! NO! The devil is trying to hassle or accuse me! STOP! But, here’s the GOOD NEWS: Jesus will walk with you through any difficulty, and He will never leave you. He will be the best friend you ever had!
I’m sure you’ve heard some opposition to God or His Son Jesus along the way--from friends, relatives, teachers or online. Stick with me, and I’ll give you God’s answer to these objections.
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