God Has Landed!

What would happen to some poor European docking his ship on our shores for the first time and having to confront an entrenched culture that had already determined who he was supposed to be and what he was supposed to be doing?   The preconceived notions and speculations would  probably bear little resemblance to the reality of his presence.  However, his presence would cause big problems for the leadership that had a big investment in keeping the traditional beliefs alive.  Our newly arrived European would be in grave danger.  The smart option would be to get back in his boat and leave!

This little theoretical concept is great way to understand the way man-made religions have been created throughout history and nothing has really changed about man-made religions in modern times.  Humans haven’t come up with anything really new for thousands of years.  They have merely couched their theories in different terminology and jazzed up the images to make them sound more intelligent and logical.  All of their ideas are still based on human reasoning and logic and there is no divine revelation supporting any of it.  Human, man-centered religions are all birthed from a belief that man can define God.  In doing so, that belief sustains rebellion against the true God – the God of revelation and of life.

The Bible testifies that God has in fact landed on our beaches for the purpose of revealing Himself:

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high…(Heb 1:1-3 NASB)