Biblical Perspective

By: James Linders For centuries Christians AROUND the globe have been celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25. THIS commemoration has been passed on from generation to generation; parent to child WITHOUT question since 316 AD. As children we were made to believe that Christmas was about receiving presents, eating until your stomach hurts, singing Christmas carols and a man dressed in red and white clothes with a red and white cap on his head, who delivered presents under the Christmas tree. A distinctive feature was his long white beard and his strange habit of entering the house through the chimney. When WE became parents we passed this tradition on to OUR children, WITHOUT understanding the TRUE meaning of Christ's birth. In fact, we were NEVER taught that Christmas was a pagan tradition introduced by pagan emperor, Constantine the Great of Rome . HE was the FIRST person to celebrate this event which we as Christians came to know as CHRISTMAS. HE was the person who fabri...

Broken pieces of a shattered life By :James Linders Because Adam DISOBEYED his creator in the Garden of Eden almost 6000 ago, the world was cursed by God and our eyes are blindfolded by its initiator, the devil. Satan convinces man by deception that sin is MORE rewarding than the long-term promise of an eternal life. Whenever we want to live a righteous and holy life, our defenses and intentions are weakened by the trapdoor of a sinful nature. We become addicted to the affliction of sin, EVEN to the extent of spiritual suicide. In Romans 7: 18-20 the apostle Paul makes this remark: “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.…” It’s THIS trapdoor of a sinful nature that separates us from the love of God. In I...

  Staring down the barrel of a shotgun By: James Linders Judging from statements made by various politicians, viral researchers, medical doctors, and now, by our OWN president, Cyril Ramaphosa, it becomes VERY clear that NO effective vaccine has yet been developed over the past eighteen months that could combat the COVID-19 virus and its variants. This creates a whirlpool of insecurity, uncertainty, fear, doubt, and a lack faith in the minds of world populations who are being forced to take a vaccine that needs MORE testing done before it should be administered to humans. Those incumbents who have already been used as laboratory rats to find an effective vaccine, are now registered as a readily available experimental pool for researchers and governments, to continue their tests on humans. I can't shake this nagging premonition that the world is staring down the barrel of a shotgun, with countless fatalities, if an effective vaccine is not found soon to treat ALL COVID-19 variants. ...

 Life is a rat race run against time By: James Linders Those who are running it race down an endless corridor that eventually ends in the grave. By the sweat of our brow we are cursed to earn a living. The ones who survive are the wealthy and the unrighteous. The life that God envisaged for man at the beginning of creation is a FAR cry from life as we are living it today; plagued by hardships, torment, suffering, disgrace, sorrows, starvation, crime, disappointments, corruption, greed, disaster, hopelessness, manipulation, betrayal and emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological abuse, to name but a few. Man’s wickedness is excelling from generation to generation. Life has become an entity to gamble away by greed for wealth that drives man to the edge of insanity where he loses his dignity, honor and soul. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer; an INJUST contrast brought about by circumstances that are destined by an INVISIBLE hand that tosses the dice. Those who have want...