Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: God
It's amazing to me that people in parts of the world other than the West are more open to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here in the West self-righteous multiculturalists and skeptics in general are the ones insisting that we Chrisitans keep our beliefs to ourselves so as not to offend other people, and claiming to be the open-minded and tolerant ones when in reality they are the ones who can't stand to hear the truth.
It constantly amazes me how shallow most peoples' thought processes are-and that by intention. I can't say I've done a scientific study on this, unless you count a lifetime of the observation of human nature as being scientific, but it's pretty clear to me that on the surface at least, a large majority of people think no further than shallow and temporal everyday issues related to physical needs: work, what to eat for dinner, what so-and-so is wearing today, and how I can gain some sort of romantic leverage over those I'm attracted to.
Mark calls the Messiah "the Son of God". He quotes God as saying through Isaiah that He would send his messenger ahead of this Son of God and would tell His messenger to "make straight paths for him" (Mark 1:1-3). So then, the "Lord" whose way John was to prepare was Jesus Christ - not just an earthly master as some try to define the word "lord" here, but the Son of God.
Certain Charismatic ministers and their followers are teaching that God literally “cannot” heal unless we believe fully that He's going to do it, or even that He already has healed us. They say that to consider whether or not God wants to heal us is to ensure that the healing will not happen. I here lay out a selection of Scriptural evidence that this is a false teaching, and therefore that the proponents of this idea are either false teachers or should not be trusted to teach.
Feelings are not faith, and as Paul declared, "Everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). That's not to say that all feelings are sinful, but depending on them is. Feelings can be sensual, physical, temporal and fallible. They can be useful and wonderful tools and a great blessing, but they can also regularly get us into trouble. The antidote to this uncertainty is the Word of God.
