Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: God
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.
John begins by describing, "That which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched...". Just as he opened his gospel-in extreme reverence and worship, not of a group or movement of disciples or followers, but of one person only- so John lifts up the name of Jesus.
Every time I'm tempted to tell myself I'm getting too hyped up about the possibility of end-times events I hear or read rantings of demonic hatred against the nation of Israel from political commentators and even professing Christians...
