Faith in Nepal and Christianity

Nepal is predominantly a Hindu country but it has also many people who have different faith. Recently it was declared a secular state ( previously only Hindu country in the world ). Nepal is one country where religious warfare has not been a big issue despite persecution to Christians until few years ago. Buddhists and Hindus walk side by side respecting each other, Buddha also known as the light of Asia was born in Nepal. Recently in the international forum, Nepal was also declared the nation with the fastest growing churches.

The Humble and the ingenuous Nepali people have found Christianity as a hiding place and a refuge. So let's try to understand what is this church and Christianity about, directly from Bible.


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God Loves Us!

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

John 3:16-21 NIV

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

John 8:12 NIV

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'I just don't get it...'

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment

1 Corinthians 2:14,15 NIV