God is not Mysterious
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No.....I actually believe that God's power is capable of changing your mind it is just that He chooses not to as He would rather you change your mind willingly and come to Him from love for what He has done to save you rather than to force you to change. God is capable to do anything He would want to do.
There are plenty of reasons. The most obvious is that, if Jesus never existed, there was no body to produce. Second, even if there was a historical Jesus, then the stories spread about his death and resurrection came long after his death. By that point, no one knew where his tomb was. This is verified by the long passage of time before Jesus' alleged tomb was venerated.
But also consider that bodies rot. Even the stories doesn't suggest that Jesus was embalmed. How long do you expect his body to last, and more importantly, be recognizable?
There's plenty of reasons not to believe any of the resurrection stories, not the least of which is the many contradictions between them.
But also consider that bodies rot. Even the stories doesn't suggest that Jesus was embalmed. How long do you expect his body to last, and more importantly, be recognizable?
There's plenty of reasons not to believe any of the resurrection stories, not the least of which is the many contradictions between them.
So... God is capable of changing my mind if I do it first? What exactly would God's role be in that? People convert to religions every day, many of them non-Christian, and yet we don't believe that any god has a role in those conversions.
This is rationalizing and victim-blaming. Have you even tried talking to God and asking Him what would be effective? It certainly wasn't applied here.
This is rationalizing and victim-blaming. Have you even tried talking to God and asking Him what would be effective? It certainly wasn't applied here.
Well God is certainly a mystery to me in that Why would anyone want to save an enemy? I mean we hated Him and killed His Son and God knew that we humans would do such a thing and yet He still sent His son Jesus to die for your and my sins.... Yes, that is a mystery to me because if I had made a defective product I probably would have trashed it and started over but then again I am NOT God and I don't think like He thinks and I don't love the way He loves.....that is a mystery to me that He would love us so much as to not trash us/zap us out of existence and start over. He could have you know but He chose not to do that.... Really mysterious.....
The "roman guards" were mentioned in Matthew... and nowhere else. And it smells of plot convenience. Not only did the women not arrive with any means of moving the boulder (as the gospel of Mark helpfully notes), but they didn't go with any way of getting past the guards. Kinda lucky that they all fell away, huh? But only in Matthew. The other gospels didn't see fit to mention the earthquake, guards, or angel appearing "like lightning" as if none of these things really mattered to those reading the story.
God has a plan for everyone - some are whole some are not but His plan is still in place for each one even you. We are the ones who choose whether we will go along with His plan and it is a mystery to us as we don't know the beginning from the end of our life but we know that God knows all about our lives. Some suffer some not so much but everyone is still a part of the plan......
First of all, bible scholars don't believe that these stories were written by the "central characters". But more importantly, is self-deprecation so hard to wrap your mind around? I've heard it. You've heard it. It's not miraculous.
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God has given us over to our own debased minds to that we would come to Him, lovingly and willingly, and not forced.
There is no true love in forcing another to love you, so He sits back for a time to lets those who accept the calling to come to Him out of that love, respect, and honor Him for creating us to live.
The other aspect that some do not see is that satan is the prince of this world right now, and there are scriptures to prove it. Which is why there is so much suffering, pain, evil, and death in the world. If God was to come back now He would interfere with His own plan of waiting tell the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.
There is no true love in forcing another to love you, so He sits back for a time to lets those who accept the calling to come to Him out of that love, respect, and honor Him for creating us to live.
The other aspect that some do not see is that satan is the prince of this world right now, and there are scriptures to prove it. Which is why there is so much suffering, pain, evil, and death in the world. If God was to come back now He would interfere with His own plan of waiting tell the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.