This isn’t a recipe or a cookbook. This is a life story. It’s a story about how I came to discover my faith.
You can read about biaz here, but I’ll give you a little preview. If you go to this website you will see that biaz is one of the few videos I have ever created. In a very small town in New England, I was given the task of teaching a Bible class on the topic of faith. I was given the task of teaching the class myself, and that was not without some problems.
In my first class, I started off by teaching a very simple lesson, and then got to the point of the lesson where I had to tell the class about faith. I told the class that faith is the belief in the existence of a person or group of persons that are different from you or me, and has much less value than you or me.
At this point, I had to explain to these young people the concept of “evidence.” A person believes something because they have evidence for it. Evidence consists of things like the way he or she looks, the way he or she acts, the way he or she acts with a certain person in mind. Evidence is a very helpful tool for the modern Christian, but one that has been tarnished by new discoveries in science.
If the Bible is true, then Jesus was not a God, but a man. So when we see a man and his children praying to God for a specific thing, that means that these children have evidence that God already knows what they are praying for. A person who is praying for a specific thing is more likely to have evidence for that thing.
It is important when we pray, that we pray as Jesus did, not as we’ve been taught. Jesus did not pray that I become a drug addict or a rapist, but that I will become like him. Jesus didn’t pray for my car to run perfectly, but for me to drive with no accidents.
We can believe in God and believe in God’s works, but the devil is very very very dangerous. Jesus said that if you believe in him, you will find yourself going to hell, and that if you do not believe in him, you will be damned to hell. The devil is evil, and if he is not killed, he will destroy us. So, there is no need to pray for these things, because Jesus already knows.
That’s why we need to pray for our cars to run perfectly instead of praying for our cars to not run at all.
A car’s tires are made of rubber. That’s what makes those tires so dangerous. If a tire goes out of line, the rubber inside the tires is destroyed, and that causes the car to lose all suspension, all power, and everything that goes with it. The car’s brakes also go to hell, and that’s why Jesus said that if your car runs perfectly, you will not be able to stop the car at all.
Well, that’s the beauty of praying: you can always pray for something else. The problem is that there are always other factors in a particular situation that have no relevance to your prayers. For example, the only thing that I prayed for with biaz was that my car would not go out of control during a stop. The brakes were a bigger concern.
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