Why did God wait so long to send Jesus? I have answered similar questions before regarding the apparent “delays” in God’s timetable. For example, we have previously considered the question, “Why did Jesus wait three days to rise from the dead?” and “Why is Jesus waiting so long b...
Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but was accused of being a friend of sinners. Too often, we are more like the older, self-righteous brother of the prodigal son, and our hearts are hardened toward the lost. This is truth at the expense of grace. But the ap...
). He offers humanity a life with him, the source of all life. But if humanity turned away from him, they would die because nothing can live away from God. Yet that is exactly what humans choose. God didn't introduce death into the equation; humanity did. God’s problem (and ours)...
For me, it really was realizing, laying in the hospital bed, that suffering can be a friend who drives you where you didn’t know you needed to go. That process of hospitalization, for me, really was that I needed to come much closer to Jesus. What did He want me to do? This who...
The question is not so much "Why did God allow the Holocaust?" but "Why did we?" God gives mankind freedom of choice. We can choose to follow Him and take a stand for righteousness, or we can rebel against Him and pursue evil. The problem resides in the heart of man. "The heart...
Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?Berean Literal BibleAnd answering He said to them, "Why also do you break the commandment of God on account of your tradition?King James BibleBut he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also ...
See also: Evidence for Jesus, Did Jesus Exist? [2][3], Why I am not a Christian (a must read), the Christological Argument, Hitchens – Core of the Jesus myth and Christianity is Immoral (both must watch). “Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own fathe...
Mark had a different focus. While he did understand Jesus as the Son of God, he typically made sure that people understood his humanity as being a part of the unique personhood of Jesus. Jesus is not half human and half God. The human part was as important as the God part. For...
Yet the four gospel accounts should not be taken as an exhaustive narrative of the life and work of Jesus. John, for example, explicitly states that his account does not contain everything Jesus did (John 21:25). Instead, the four writers had a specific audience in mind to address a ...
the 'good news' is not only about Jesus, it is also about every one of us... Recognizing that we are 'childern of God' requires us to recoganize how we are the same. -- Suffering can show how we are connected with each other, and with God: "the mystery of Christ in you, the...