Posted on 01/28/2014 10:16:06 AM PST by Gamecock
To someone not inclined to believe a heartwarming story like above won’t matter either.
Jesus said so.
We walk by faith and not by sight.
The problem is that too many people these days ar ewalking by sight.
I see so much in the Pentecostal churches where people are always seeking for a fresh infilling, a new manifestation, something everyday, as if, if they don’t get them, their faith is shaken. I’ve coined a term for them of *experience junkies*. They always have to be after the next spiritual high.
But I finally realized, that those who constantly need to see, and hear, and feel, and touch, for all their claims for *great faith* , for *believing for God to move or work*, in reality, have weak faith. If they don’t *see* something, they think God isn’t doing anything. That’s not faith.
The popularity of these kind of books and widespread acceptance is just a sign of the times.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. Matthew 16:4
Wow, these responses, where is the love? Isn’t it kind of neat he could recognize his “young” grandpa but not the “old”? Isn’t that kind of exciting we get our young bodies in heaven?
I know God is a radical God and will do the exceptional to send a message of His reality to this lost world.
He did send a message. 2000 years ago.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1
Matthew tells us that when Jesus died, “many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised” (Matt. 27:52).
Why don’t you argue w Matthew?
It simply just confirms what has been preached all along.
AMEN to what you say!
“But maybe scripture is so compelling that reading it makes it clear to anyone who will see that it is perfectly correct and had to have been written by God?”
In truth, God INSPIRED the persons who wrote the books of the Holy Bible to write the words.
“But I finally realized, that those who constantly need to see, and hear, and feel, and touch, for all their claims for *great faith* , for *believing for God to move or work*, in reality, have weak faith. If they don’t *see* something, they think God isn’t doing anything. That’s not faith.”
Rather, the folks you describe are the SEAK faith. God Bless them.
“I know God is a radical God and will do the exceptional to send a message of His reality to this lost world.”
God continues to SURPRISE us not just via HIS WORD, but by doing these messages of His reality.
“Rather, the folks you describe are the SEAK faith. God Bless them.”
Correction, those who do SEAK faith.
AMEN to that too!
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”
Many, not content with what God tells them, have itching ears for novelties.
Plenty of that going around upstream.
Rather, what is being seen is simply “confirming” what scripture says.
Gamecock I appreciate your genuineness, but this theology that God’s magnificent works are “only” for teaching is the primary reason the church suffers deep emotional and spiritual poverty. Evil gets to hit us with all kinds of dark artillery and then we tie up God’s wonderful personality with a withering theology where we won’t let Him be himself with us.
It’s the equivalent of someone valuing theory over actual encounter. The two can blend together well. It as if someone would rather theorize about kissing vs actual kissing.
No one suggests seeking experiences rather seeking God and letting him be himself with us, then one’s world will beautifully flower.
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