The Price of Ignorance
The story is told of some sailors stranded in a lifeboat after their ship broke up off the coast of Brazil. They were near death after days of drifting with no fresh water. One of the sailors in his delirium reached over the side of the lifeboat, scooped up ocean water and took a deep drink. To his amazement it wasn’t salty!
But it was no miracle. Although no land was in sight, they had drifted near the mouth of the Amazon River where the magnitude of the flow was so great that it was still fresh water even far out at sea. What those sailors didn’t know was costing them their lives.
It can be much the same with our ignorance of God. We can know the facts about the Easter story but if we don’t know the God of Easter it will cost us our lives!
Interesting strategy coming right out and advertising the fear-mongering.
It reminds me of a local news teaser... "What you don't know about your breakfast cereal may be killing your kids! ... Tonight at 10!"
Isn't the phrase "facts about the Easter story" pretty much an oxymoron? I'm pretty sure that the "eyewitness accounts that jesus turned into a zombie" of a few idiots (who thought the world was flat, and the sun revovled around the Earth) has a little more work ahead of it before it qualifies as a fact.
Also Sucks big time for the millions of people around the world who never get exposed to Christianity their entire lives, or who are engulfed into another religion. That was pretty mean of god to set up a system that costs half the world their lives, when they don't even get exposed to it.
