All righteousness is summed up in love to God and love to our fellowmen. Love to our fellowmen is the most observable evidence of righteousness, but this love includes not only doing good works but also being harmless towards friends and enemies alike.

This is what conversion is all about. It is a miracle that God performs on the human heart. We cannot change ourselves but God can change us. All we need to do is ask Him.

The history of Job’s experience shows clearly that suffering and destruction are caused by Satan and that he desperately tries to get people to believe that God is the One doing such things.

If Jesus’ teaching and behaviour are truly representative of the Father, then the Father is a pleasant person to relate to, and not someone to be afraid of. What then is the wrath of God?

Even the dreaded Mark of the Beast (whatever one might consider it to be) is based on a scheme in which violence and coercion is used to impose a particular form of religious observance.

Another consideration is that sometimes we genuinely think that we are right and it is only when we back down and look again at the disputed matter that we realize that we were wrong.

This second manifestation of love (that is, being harmless to others) is greatly emphasized throughout the Scriptures, even though many persons seem to overlook it.

Jesus has provided a basis on which we can forgive even the worst kinds of offences committed against us without harboring residues of bitterness towards the offender.

One will recognize that the Ten Commandments are simply an expanded version of the same concept – the first four commandments briefly describe love to God and the last six commandments describe love to our fellowmen.

The crucifixion of Christ on the cross of Calvary stands as a central pillar of the Christian faith, around which many aspects of the faith revolve.