but on the other to exaltation in John 13:31 "Jesussaid, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him."Name: E Philip Davis
Perhaps seeing this story in the larger context of Jesus’ sacrifice doesn’t relieve your troubling questions; maybe it only makes them worse. After all, God is still requiring the death of a son, only this time it's his own! Why does death have to be involved at all? Why such viole...
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...
and I think for us to realize that we need an other-worldly type of love to overcome that kind of evil; a love that is actually cruciform. Jesus himself absorbs that evil through his suffering on the cross. Then we also should understand that sometimes God allows what He can hardly...
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...
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Why did Jesus Christ have to suffer? Essentially, Jesus Christ suffered and died because of sin—not His own sin, but the sins of all of mankind. Notice the prophet Isaiah’s description of Christ’s suffering: “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been ...
John: John presents Jesus as the Son of God—fully divine. Jesus is not only flesh and bones, but He is also the Creator of all things in the beginning (John 1). Jesus reveals His nature as "I am," a title God gave as His own. In many cases, claims concerning the "contradictions...
We also know that God has done everything possible to redeem us from the sin which would destroy us. He gave His only Son, who sacrificed His life for our sin and took our penalty. All who turn to Jesus Christ in faith are saved. The sin in this world, and horrors such as the Ho...
Years ago, I did the same with the Scriptures that pointed to Jesus (Yeshua). After much study, I was convinced that the Jewish Bible and the New Testament were correct and that Jewish tradition was wrong. Jesus (Yeshua) was/is the Messiah and is Deity and is fully God incarnate....