believing, directed towards or having faith. So for instance, at the end of John’s gospel, he points out that there’s many other things Jesus did that he didn’t write down and he doesn’t think you could write them all down. There’s so many things you could potentially writ...
and for many people it still is. But a vulnerable God is an essential part of the Christian story. We see it in Jesus’ life, from his birth in a manger to his weeping over the death of his friend Lazarus to the anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane, where...
It could be perhaps that when he was under the fig tree, Nathaniel had been praying in secret which elicited this response, rather than that he did not know that he had merely been observed in the natural way. The story of the Samaritan woman at the well is an example where Jesus ...
Again, Paul did not believe the Greek philosophers who taught the immortality of all souls, neither did Yeshua (Jesus):I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. (John 6:51)...
Jesus Himself wept at the tomb of Lazarus. He knew that Lazarus would be raised from the dead. But He wept because of the terrible state mankind had come to, because of sin. But death has now has lost its sting – ever since Jesus rose from the grave. One childhood memory that ...
do so, were instructed to close their eyes and raise their arms in prayer, according to the lawsuit. The teens were asked to give their lives over to Jesus to find purpose and salvation. Students said they were told that those who did not follow the Bible would “face eternal torment.”...
If we weren’t fighting, tooth and nail, to cultivate the magnificent architecture of thought that we have inherited, or, to raise to the ground all that causes grief and suffering so that something righteous and true can arise in its place, what would we be doing? What would there be ...
JESUS’S RESURRECTION The single best reason are the eyewitness reports. John was there, and told us about it. Peter, too. And so on afterwards, as documented in Acts. The reporting on the Resurrection wasn’t like myths and fables, passed down as obvious stories. It was no different in...
In theory, the only person i see that wouldn’t take a bad decision would be “Jesus”. If the smart one could indeed take a bad decision, this article is proposing strategies that could help them change their mind. It also tries to suggests reasons why they take those decisions. It’...
So I thought to myself, “What if believing that Jesus was there for him really helped him get off drugs, even if Jesus didn’t exist and the whole Christianity thing was a scam?” So here’s my question: suppose that someone did a scientific tests of two programs that purported to ...