THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEOLOGICAL BELIEFS

Once I heard a pastor sharing his experience. As he went about evangelizing, he happened to meet a bunch of Indians. To one guy pastor asked, “Do you know what the Bible is all about?”. One guy replied, “Don’t worry I know I will tell you, it’s a history of English men coming to India and robbing our people”. This is the sorry state of affairs of our country. People fail to understand the preciousness and irreplaceability of God’s Word. If it was a religious text of some other religion which has been proven to inspire violence in history and wide spread terrorism at present or a bunch of religious texts that kept people blinded for centuries in the shadow of superstitious beliefs which still continue to do so in many part of India, it could be easy and reasonable for one to evade Bible as something not for any good. Paradoxical to aforementioned notion, Bible has proven itself with hardcore testing to be most reasonable, accurate, historical, scientific (to an extent), divinely inspired, life transforming and peace-keeping text among rivals that even the father of our great nation India Mahatma Gandhi (was not only a reader but a follower. He frequently read sermon of the Mount and got inspired for movement of non-violence) and Raja Ram Mohan Roy (Wrote Book on the teachings of Jesus Christ) read and treasured in their libraries.

Undoubtedly I love my country India as I’m it's citizen but facts are facts regardless of one’s patriotism. Theologically speaking (God in control), unmistakably the two countries that follow the Bible are the greats of the world; America and Israel. No matter how much we boast on ourselves, hiding our weakness, for many reasons they are better than us. A simple probe will prove that the are the great nations; the world powers. We, in our country, worship everything that's in existence; gods and goddesses of wisdom, money, peace, prosperity, war and victory, ironically, we had been subjugated for years under Christians (British Rule), we have most illiterate (dumbs with degrees because scams in education system), poor, cases of domestic violence, gender discrimination, crimes against women, ill-water supply, poor/no medical care, poor sanitation, useless/corrupt security and ever increasing and daunting levels of corruption in politics. This can be proven by seeing the statistics of immigration that how impatient Indians are to run away from India to find shelter in US/UK. By stating this I'm not completely denying the existence of evil in those countries but we are concerned about the levels and prevalence of it. This, in short, sums up the idea that the God they worship has blessed them far above than others because their foundations were laid with Biblical principles. 

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