GUEST OPINION

Don’t punish everyone because of one developer

W hat happened in Isla Vista recently happened several years ago, so it is not that common, and it is not good business.

As you know, out-of-town developers target buildings ripe for investing large corporate money. They build and leave!

Lost in time or saved for eternity?

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, the day that Jesus rose from the dead, after having paid for the sins of the world by way of his death and atonement.

The gift of Easter represents that if you believe in Jesus’s substitutionary death for your sins, you have been given eternal life.

What does this mean in this age, when America is no longer a Christian nation, and most young people no longer believe in God? Who needs a savior from sin, death and hell when one doesn’t believe in any of them?

Regarding the lack of faith among so many young people, the resulting hole in their soul is evident for everyone to see. Anything goes, and, as a result, the levels of fecklessness, depression and suicide are off the chart.

They don’t know who they are because they have never met their loving creator.

They are drowning in a sea of moral, social, sexual and historic relativism, leaving them with nothing to believe in during this life — and ultimately nothing to live for.

This has happened before, unfortunately. In a previous age, a brutally prophetic commentary was written by British Pastor J. Stuart Holden during World War I. He wrote, “God’s rule could scarcely be considered moral if it did not involve the destruction of that which has been robbing the nation of its soul. Something of a great and overwhelming calamity simply had to come to arrest and bring to an end the flippant folly which was beginning to characterize every class of society. To many of our young men, this war has come as a positive redemption from vain, empty, and worthless living. Their lives have been redeemed from destruction even though they go to death.”

Pastor Holden’s words only make sense if there is life after death.

Do you believe that all “good people” will go to heaven apart from believing in the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ on the cross?