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This question touches on a passage in the New Testament where two sisters show different behaviors when they come into the presence of Jesus (Luke 10:38-42). Jesus enters a village and is invited into the house of his friends Martha and Mary. While Martha is busy being hospitable, Mary chose to sit at Jesus’ feet to listen to Him. On first glance it is easy to see why Martha was annoyed, she had been left alone to take care of her guests, however, if we look deeper into what is going on we see that at the root there is difference in what the sisters viewed as important. Mary had chosen to sit with Jesus and listen to what he had to say. Read Full Answer.

Rather than truth being based on many perspectives, it is more accurate to say that multiple perspectives are needed to understand that one truth. God is an infinite being (He is eternal) therefore no amount of perspectives can describe Him fully, and hence we can admittedly speak of adequate and not exhaustive understanding. And, this adequate understanding is possible because God has revealed who He is to us in His Word, the Bible and through His Son Jesus. Read Full Answer.

Jesus expects us to respond to Him as the truth by receiving him and believing in Him (John 1:12, 20:31), and becoming a child of God, on the basis of His perfect life, and death and resurrection in the place of sinners. He calls for us to have ‘childlike faith’ (Matt 18:1-4), modelling ourselves after innocent children not in their immature behaviour but rather in their total dependence and trust of their parents. Read Full Answer.

It would be impossible to call someone who believes in God, and not Jesus Christ, a Christian believer. The Bible says that God has been revealed to us through His Son Jesus Christ (John 1:14, 18), hence any ‘god’ that one believes in that does not urge repentance and faith in Jesus, that does not make Jesus prominent is not the God of the Bible. The first thing to do, is hence to establish that, whoever this ‘god’ the person is believing in, it is not the God of the Bible, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, we would want to try and show that it is only possible for us to know God, if He reveals Himself to us. And, the Bible teaches us that He has done so through Jesus Christ alone (John 1:14,18, 14:6).

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” Read Full Answer.

The Bible scholar Graeme Goldsworthy has helpfully summarized the kingdom of God as “God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule”; in short, it is the sphere of God’s reign. While the term does not occur in the Old Testament, the idea definitely does. Jesus talks about the Kingdom of God being here (Mark 1:15), and still to come (Matthew 6:10). Jesus’ coming to earth inaugurates the Kingdom of God on earth, but it will be complete at His second coming. Read Full Answer.

The word translated “Word” in English, from John 1:1 and 1:14 is actually the Greek word Logos. This word was widely used in the first century in different contexts and had a range of meanings.  The Stoics understood it to be the rational principle by which everything exists. Others think that John borrowed from Philo, the first-century Jewish follower of Plato, who saw logos as the real or phenomenal world, or the ideal man, the primal man. More generally, logos can refer to inner thought, reason or science. Some Christian theologians, such as Gordon Clark, advocate translating the word as ‘reason’ or ‘logic’ to emphasize the rational nature of God. Read Full Answer.

The birth, life, death on the cross and resurrection of Jesus are all important for the Christian. They reveal God to us, demonstrate how God redeems us from our sins, and gives us an example of how we should live our lives. However, in 1 Corinthians 15:1-6, Paul does tell us that the matter of ‘first importance’ Read Full Answer.

There are a number of possible reasons for the instances where Jesus commands people (and demons) not to tell others about Him. Some of these are related to why He sometimes withdrew Himself from various situations. Not all these reasons may have directly applied to every instance, but all of them are correct.  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.

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.

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.

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.

2. Jesus was the creator. “All things were made through him, and without him Read Full Answer.

Whether you believe that Christ is the only way to heaven or whether you believe that there are many ways, you need to have at least 2 things:
1) an absolute truth
2) faith in that truth Read Full Answer.

The Scripture show that Jesus lived for about 33 years.

Most scholars would place the birth of Jesus between 4-7 BC and His death at around 26 – 29AD. We read in Luke 3:23 that Jesus was about 30 years old when He begin His ministry. Read Full Answer.

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

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

Jesus is God, coexistent with Father and Holy Spirit as Triune God. Through him all things came into being and were created, yet moved by love and in obedience to His Father, the eternal Son became human: fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures. He was perfect in nature, Read Full Answer.