As people discuss "pearly gates" with the Apostle Peter sitting in his throne (if he is allowed to have a throne in heaven that is) and few others mocking at the worship of the cross, few using them in their necks of various sizes and metals, what is the exact message of the cross? Yet the renowned priest (clergy) clarifying the idol worship or better tree worship...
Do we live a lifestyle of the cross, do we discuss in goanet or just theoretically in a presumptious faith or better blind faith expect to be allowed by the Apostle in his chamber? Here is an example of this lifestyle and that too in Pakistan a christian in Pakistan lived the LIFE of the cross which his Saviour enabled him to live and triumph. " A Pakistani Christian falsely charged with “blasphemy” after rescuing his 8-year-old nephew from a beating at the hands of Muslim boys has been cleared of the charge. Dildar Masih, a 27-year-old father of two young children, was acquitted on March 26 after prosecutors failed to produce any evidence against him, he said.Masih said that during his imprisonment, he stood by his faith that Jesus would free him from the false charge and that he would be able to return to his family. “I prayed a lot … this was the only other thing I did in prison besides having food and sleeping,” he said. “I kept on telling God that I had complete faith in Him and would wait for the day when He would set me free.” So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10"" From the Open Doors. (www.opendoors.org) As people also market various "gods" and push them up your throats we in Goa often are cofused what happens after we die? Will there be Peter meeting you at the Pearly gate with "Johnson and his jolly boys" playing a mando? Will the virgins take you in the harem? Will you pass through purgatory? Will you go to hell? or Limbo? Or just become a coackroach or a mouse or just incarnate as a mosquito? What did the Apostle Paul way w.r.t. the message of the cross? Paul writes to the Corinthian church I Corinthias 1 "8For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written: " I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." 20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." (emphasis mine) Maybe the renowned priest and the Goan Canadian laity could interpret this for us? Petra.
