The first point of light: God is not the creator of evil and suffering. This answers the question you hear so often: “Why didn’t God merely create a world where tragedy and suffering didn’t exist?” The answer is: He did! Genesis 1:31 says: “God saw all that he had made, ...
what we are also saying is that the only part of the world that God really cared about was the part under Roman rule (Most of Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia). The rest of the world did not have access to the Roman road system, nor did they speak ...
In verse 24, Saul says “I have sinned…I feared the people and obeyed their voice.” Saul realized he’d sinned, that he’d transgressed God’s law and command, but he wanted to look good in the eyes of the people. He “feared the people” above God, to the point where it did...
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) But God did not create death, sorrow or pain when the earth was created. Continuing in the first chapter of Genesis it says “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeedit wasvery good.” (Genesis 1...
s statement that God did not necessarily create the universe. Their arguments were weak, petty, and often showed little to no understanding of science. They even sometimes misquoted Hawking in order to set up a "straw man" to knock down. The rebuttals boiled down to, “God exists because...
Does the Bible Answer "Why Did Jesus Have to Die"? Before we can get to the end of the story, we need to travel back to the very beginning. At the beginning when God created Adam and Eve. In this scene is a beautiful garden where we see Adam eating the delicious fruit of a livin...
God reveals Himself as Creator of ALL — the entire universe with its galaxies, its suns, planets and moons — this places God (as we have previously seen fromJohn 1:1-3) in existence before all else. The next word tells us what God did: He "created." God is, first of all, ...
So the best known verse is the best of all offer that God loves all and offers all - His Son as their only hope! Taken from "The Gospels in Harmony" by Discover the Book Ministries (used by permission). Are the Four Gospels Reliable? In comparison with the remaining manuscripts of any...
And, finally, verse 19: And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. If we take God at His Word, there’s no need to fret about anything. There’s no need to envy what someone else has. There’s no reason to hold a grudge. Our God ...
For God So Loved the World [16] “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved thr...