Understanding God would be so much easier if we’d been alive when Jesus was here, right? We could have seen Jesus in action, heard him speak, and even sat down with him and got a real sense of what God is like. But all we’ve got instead is a brief glimpse of him in a [...]
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For most of the year squirrels scamper off to the nearest tree if I’m close by, but not in the Fall. They don’t seem to notice me at all. One such squirrel nearly ran into me the other day. I saw him scampering toward me and at his trajectory and speed combined with mine we’d meet head [...]
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When Jesus said (in good old King James language) in John 5:30 that “I can of mine own self do nothing,” I always thought he was referring to his helplessness, or admitting he didn’t have the strength or ability to fulfill God’s will on his own. That isn’t what Jesus was saying, though. In context he’s [...]
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In John 17:3, Jesus tells us what real life – life you can live forever – is all about; it’s knowing God. But why is knowing God important? Because if we don’t know God we don’t why he made us, do we? And if we don’t know why he made us then we’re running through [...]
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Did Jesus really have to become human and die? Couldn’t God have done it some other way – like give us a billion years in heaven first so we could watch God in action, soak up his love and never want to sin in the first place? Or, if we did sin, why couldn’t God simply [...]
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God’s dilemma had come about because he’d given humans a will. As such, we could decide for ourselves what we wanted to do. Trouble is, we’d be sorely tempted with this will of ours to act independently of God. It’s the nature of the beast, it seems, just like it was for a third of [...]
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I’ve often wondered what kind of body God appeared to Adam and Eve in. There’s a clue in Genesis 3:8, because when they hid from God, he went looking for them, walking in the Garden and calling to them, meaning he had eyes, legs and a voice, just like a human. It tells us something [...]
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