No. Yet it is something that is obscured by the cacophony of action, ambition, philosophy, propaganda and even religion that form the backdrop to our twenty-first century lives.
There is a God. Many of us are aware of this and yet drive this awareness into some untouched corner of our minds...
But this God - perfect, clean, bright and pure as He is - is unknowable. To cross paths with Him for a moment would be to invite destruction because we’re not up to that standard of perfection.
It would be except for this, that this God is loving. This is the kind of love that asks for nothing in return. He saw our path and its natural end point and wanted to rescue us.
This is where Jesus comes in. He claimed to be God: God come to be with us, God “one of us”. He came to show us what God is like and to do something about our shortfalls and imperfection that cut us off from Him.
And so He died on a cross. Our ancestors did this to the One who authored life itself. He was innocent. But He took our guilt and was punished for our guilt on that cross.
The story becomes even more amazing as He then conquered death - coming alive again proving that He had authority over even this ultimate horizon!
Now there stands the possibility for the greatest swap imagineable to take place - for God Himself to take away our wrong things (the very things that drag us back from being able to know Him) and for Him to give us His goodness.
This is for people who know they need a revolution. Who know that they need forgiveness. The truth is that all of humanity needs this. But the greatest barrier is for a person to think they are “good enough” on their own...
This revolution takes place when a person realises these things and asks God - in the light of His sacrifi ce on the cross - to clean them and bring them to the place of knowing Him.
This is the place God Himself calls each of us to come to...
The source for this is the Bible. Get one. Start in the New Testament. Read about Jesus’ life. Check whether this measures up with what you read...
God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. - the Bible, John 3:16