1 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV 84) “Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.”
“Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.” -Tacitus
1 Peter 3:13-15a (NIV 84) “Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.’ But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord.”
James 4:1 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I realized that evil is endemic to the human condition—that any one of us could commit the same atrocities.” -Yehiel De-Nur
“Two natures beat within my breast, the one is foul, the other blessed, the one I love, the one I hate, the one I feed will dominate.”
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.”
Luke 5:10b-11 (NIV) “Then Jesus said to Simon, ‘Don’t be afraid; from ow on you will fish for people.’ So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.”
1 Peter 3:15b (NIV) “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Reasons for Belief
- Cosmological Argument
- Teleological Argument
- Moral Argument
- Historical Jesus Christ
- Personal Testimony
1 Peter 3:15b (NIV) “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”
