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Yes. God still performs miracles. In Acts 2, we read that the Holy Spirit came upon the believers and they spoke in tongues, Peter stood up and quoted the prophet Joel (Acts 2:14) which said, “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” (Acts 2:17) Likewise, In 1 Corinthians, 11-14, we see a whole list of instructions on how the church is to practice the spiritual gifts such as tongues, healing and prophecy. Read Full Answer.

As believers in Christ, we do not pray to the Trinity (God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit), as we pray in the Holy Spirit to the Father through Jesus Christ. Each personhood in the Trinity fulfils a different role. We will briefly go through some passages in the bible which state that.

God the Father is the person who created all things and the person whom we lived for. He is also the one gave all authority to Jesus, and the one who gives the Holy Spirit to us. That is why we pray and give thanks to God the Father. Read Full Answer.

God is omnipotent and omniscient – He is able to do all things (Jeremiah 32:17) and He knows all things (1 John 3:20). He is a spirit (John 4:24) and does not have a physical form like we do. Therefore to say that He “hears” is not to say that he audibly hears prayers, but that He knows everything that everyone prays about. He also knows everything that is in our thoughts (Psalm 44:21, 94:11). 

However, from a human perspective it may seem that sometimes God does not hear our prayers. This is because God, in His power and sovereignty, chooses to respond to those whom He loves. God also has His own timing (2 Peter 3:8-9) for answering prayer. Read Full Answer.

Basically, these are all titles for the prophesized Messiah predicted in the Old Testament, whom the Israelites look forward to for their salvation. They are used as titles for Jesus to signify that He is the Messiah, and has fulfilled prophecy.

 Daniel wrote down his vision which prophesized the coming of Messiah in a human-divine figure (one like a son of man), one who is given authority, glory and sovereign power by God to rule over all the nation and peoples of every language. Jesus calls Himself “the Son of Man” more than 80 times in the Gospels, not merely “a son of man” (ordinary male human being), but the greatest and most notable son of man of all time spoken by God right back in Genesis, who will crush sin on its head. Read Full Answer.

We trust the bible because it is the word of God and, as we read in Titus 1:2, God never lies. Titus 1:9 says that God’s word is trustworthy. 2 Timothy 3:15-17 tells us that all scripture is inspired by God and is able to lead us to salvation and equip us for every good work. God used men to put His holy word into writing, but the effects, intents and meanings of the words all belong to God.

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As mentioned as the answer to the question “If faith is the only thing we have to go on, how can I dispel anyone else’s faith in their god?”, the role of changing people’s hearts is the role of the Holy Spirit, not Christians. However, Christians do have a role that is to share the gospel, pray and also to be good witnesses and examples. Read Full Answer.

Consider the following two similar questions:

1) “What happens to apples when people stop believing in them? Will apples cease to exist then?”

2) “What happens to the earth when people stop believing that it is round? Will it cease to be round then?”

The first question is straightforward. The existence of an object is not dependent on man’s belief. There may be people who are ignorant of the existence of apples or choose not to believe in it, but the existence of apples is not dependent on their awareness or belief. Read Full Answer.

Some people use this phrase to try and reconcile the fact that God hates sin yet saves us and that we should love others too, in spite of their sin. While this is a correct principle, the phrase does not correctly convey God’s wrath against sinners.

Note these verses. They demonstrate that God’s wrath is not only upon sins, but also on the sinner himself. Read Full Answer.

The first thing to do is to make sure that we belong to God. In John 10:27, Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”, which means that the key prerequisite for hearing from God is that we belong to Him, that we are the sheep of His pasture. To do this, we need to repent, believe the good news of the Gospel, and follow Jesus. Read Full Answer.

When we are not hearing from God, we should ask, ‘Why?’ There could be many reasons such as:

1)    God is speaking but we are not hearing so we think God is not hearing us. If this is the case, we should remove any rebelliousness and start listening to Him and let Him speak to us in His terms. Read Full Answer.

A straightforward answer to that question is that it is not always God’s will to heal everyone. God is free to heal whomever he wants. For example, when Jesus was at the pool at Sheep Gate (John 5:2-9), there were multitudes of invalids, lame, blind and paralyzed. Yet Jesus only chose to heal one man there. It was not Jesus’ will to heal the rest. Read Full Answer.

Yes, the three persons of the trinity always cooperate with each other at all times in perfect unity. For example, at the baptism of Jesus, the Son was baptised to fulfill all righteousness, the Father spoke from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with whom I am well pleased”, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus like a dove. (Luke 3:22) Likewise, at the Read Full Answer.

Let us first examine what is meant by “Taste and see that the LORD is good” in Psalms 24:8. Is this a reference to physically or emotionally feeling his love and sensing his goodness? Or does the context mean something else?

This idea of tasting the Lord is seen a number of times in Scripture. Read Full Answer.

Yes. Jesus is the only way to God. John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Let us see who Jesus claimed to be.

Jesus claimed to be God, the creator of the universe. In the Read Full Answer.

Christians believe Jesus was God because the bible tells us that Jesus is God and even Jesus Himself teaches that He is God.

There are many places in the bible where this claim is made. Most notable Read Full Answer.

Yes, Jesus was God! We know this by a number of ways:

1. Jesus claims to be God. In John 10, the people tried to kill Jesus because they knew He claimed to be God.

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While Christianity teaches that Jesus is the only path to God, this means that other religions also deny the claims of Christianity. The purpose here is not to come to a point where everyone agrees, but rather to discern within the disagreement which claim is true and what to do about it. Read Full Answer.

The short answer is “No”. This doesn’t mean that you should disobey what your church tells you to do, but to consider the more fundamental question:

How can we be “OK” with God?
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It is true that God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). However, there is a common misconception that because God is love, he cannot kill people and nations or judge them for their sins.

Ray Comfort in his book The Way of the Master paints this scenario: “you are a criminal Read Full Answer.

Just as God did not “create” good, He did not “create” evil. God is the definition of good and the rejection of God or His personality is by definition evil. While it is a concept and not a created thing, evil is real and does exist. Evil exists as a result of the ability to accept or reject God. Read Full Answer.