Editor, New Era:

Why should people in the United States be panicked by a large number of disbelievers? God knows it and he's not panicked!

The world has always contained more disbelievers than believers. Over a thousand years ago, Jesus told us that wide is the road to destruction and many are those who follow it, while narrow is the road to life and few there are who find it!

God never forces anyone to spend eternity with him. It's a choice, and God initiated freedom of choice in the garden with Adam and Eve ... it's the consequences that we are not free to choose!

In the Bible, 1 Cor. 1:18 and 19, it says, "For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God, for it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the unbelieving intellectuals and the false philosophies of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever unbelievers. I will frustrate and nullify them and bring them to nothing!"

Gabrellen Pfarr
Lancaster