Category: God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rDuvxGkBY&ab_channel=KristenWalkerSmith When I was 7 years old my dad died. He was a wonderful person. He was kind, he had a strong testimony, and he loved to serve in our community. But best of all, he loved to spend time with me, my 4 older sisters, and my mom. At his funeral, I remember thinking: why did God let this happen? Our family goes to church. My parents pay their tithing. We obey the law! If someone had to die, shouldn’t it have been a horrible criminal instead of my righteous dad?  Have you ever had those kinds of thoughts? Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to good people? If so, I want you to imagine that you’re back in Old Testament times and you are about to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YZ0WweRQM&ab_channel=AChristianGuy A charge that I have encountered in my comments is that nobody believed in the doctrine of the Trinity prior to the Council of Nicea. There is a half-truth to this in that, in the early days of the Church, the language of Trinitarian doctrine – namely, 1 God in 3 Persons, etc. – was not fully developed yet. The linguistic understanding of the Trinity that Christians hold today comes largely from the Cappadocian Fathers – Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus – who lived around the latter half of the fourth century, between the times of the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinople. These three men lived during a time when Arianism (the belief that Jesus was not truly God) was very…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZ3ohFU3bc&ab_channel=AChristianPerspectivewithMatthewTingblad Related articles Why does God kill innocent people in the Old Testament? How could a loving God send bears to maul children? Why is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? Transcript of the above video Over the years, I've read a few of the major books on atheism and one of the things that they often spend time talking about is these horrors that they see happening in the Old Testament by a God whom Christians claim to be benevolent and loving. There's these judgments and conquests, brutal slaughters and killings happening in the Old Testament, condoned by God, that include women and children! There's the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the firstborn of the families of Egypt, Joshua in the Canaan…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugzuAud_uY&ab_channel=EveryManMinistries You and I right now are living out the next act of this unfolding story. Satan has an object and it's what God loves. What does God love and send his son to die for? People. God loves people and in creating man, God gave Satan an object upon whom he'd be free to project all this hostility. All the sufferings and the agony which have flowed from from that moment God said “Let there be light” leads us to that ultimate question: Why didn't God nip it in the bud? Why didn't he cut it off right there? Why let it roll and create all this pain and suffering over time and through the centuries? If you are like me, you can't look at the Holocaust in Nazi…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erkww3L2JUc&ab_channel=BibleAnswerswithPastorMike Does God hear the prayers of non-believers? They understand that God will hear the prayer of repentant prayer like “forgive me of my sins” but does he hear unbelievers prayer in other situations like a mom praying for a kid if she's a non-believer? When we de-personalize God, then that becomes a hard question. He's almost like a computer program or a safe and if you get the right combination, it opens and before that you're shut out. I understand there are passages that say that God is not going to respond to the prayer of the sinner but you know these are usually circumstantial statements. They're not across-the-board statements that before you get in a right relationship with God through repentance and faith and reconcile with him, he…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLpiHd5jg0E&ab_channel=SEEKComm Related articles What does the Bible teach about the oneness of God? What’s wrong with Oneness Pentecostalism? Transcript of the above video In the previous video, we established that there has to be a God because the nature of our universe and our human predicament points to the existence of God. However, while God may exist, how do you know that he is the only one? What if he had a team where they all have equal power? For instance, maybe one God could be in charge of the skies or another could be in charge of the seas and so on and so forth. Are there multiple gods or is there only one God? That is our topic for today. How do Christians know that there is only…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGBH_Qe5VAQ Atheists point out that Elijah was on his way to a certain city and a bunch of small children came out and started mocking the Prophet “Hey old bald head, why don't you go up” and the old man had a temper tantrum and he put a curse on these little kids and God decided to bring a couple of wild bears over the woods and to maul all these little kids and kill them. What a cruel God. What kind of a God would do a thing like that? The nation was in a very perilous place. They still worshiped Baal in many parts of Israel. This Prophet’s word needed to be taken dead serious because the whole nation's existence hung in the balance.  2 Kings 2:23 Then…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpSE3eZTCNo The words you are about to experience are true. They will change your life if you let them. They come from the very heart of God who loves you and he is the father you have been looking for all her life. This is his love letter to you. My child you may not know me but I know everything about you. I know when you sit down and when you rise up. I'm familiar with all your ways. (Psalm 139:1) Even the very hairs on your head are numbered. (Matthew 10:29-31) For you were made in my image. (Genesis 1:27) In me you live and move and have your being for you are my offspring. (Acts 17:28) I knew you even before you were conceived. (Jeremiah 1:4-5) I…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SG_1lIw_rI Where is God when it hurts, I mean when it really hurts, when it hurts so bad you can't catch your breath, when it hurts so bad you think your friends can't understand or your spouse can’t understand and maybe even God Himself doesn't get it either? Where's God then? If you've suffered like that, you're not alone. Even Jesus himself has suffered that much. Do you remember when he was on the cross, he was beaten and left for dead, he was bleeding to death and literally suffocating and he looked up to heaven, he cried out “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Theologians for the last 2,000 years have done a good job in unpacking what that meant spiritually and theologically. But I'll tell…

https://youtu.be/JNyY32bKflE We learn the first reason that sicknesses and diseases exist in the world from Genesis and from Romans. In Genesis 1, we see that God created all of creation, and we see that seven times He called His creation "good" or "very good." However, things changed when Adam sinned. in Genesis 3:17 it says, "And to Adam he said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, "You shall not eat of it," cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.'" and in Romans 8:20-21 Paul writes, "For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in…