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SALT OF LIFE
"Elvis is alive."
Many people still believe that.
People say: "Elvis has left the building"
and lives somewhere in the universe
and is going to come back some day.
This legendary king of rocknroll
who messed up his life quite badly,
even if he has died, many still believe him to be alive.
He is giving reasons to live. He gives strength to some.
He is everything to some.
He is a true false god.
This kind of idolatry eats up the credibility
of commitment based on actual facts.
It is two different things to believe in Jesus
or to believe in Elvis.
Jesus is alive. He is not dead. He is coming back.
John says in the beginning of his Gospel 1:4,
"In him was life, and that life was the light of men." (NIV)
In Jesus was the power to give birth to a new life.
When God created everything through Jesus,
Jesus got everything from "nothing",
Jesus got everything from himself.
In Jesus is life which He can give others to have.
John compares this life to a light.
Same way sun enables new life and growth in plants,
the same way Jesus enables new life and growth in people.
Jesus and His teaching guides us. He is our life.
This is an actual fact that does not base on legends.
Subtitles: Marika Finne