Questions For God

It's 1990 and you are thinking about becoming religious - specifically - becoming a Christian. The internet is in it's infancy and will not be open to the general public until 1991. Pretend for a moment that there are only six Christian denominations in the world:  Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Church of Christ, Catholic , and what the heck - Jehovah's Witnesses . It just so happens that in your town, each of these denominations is represented by at least one church.  You don't really know how they differ in their beliefs, or even if they differ, and since the internet hasn't been invented yet, you will have to rely on the information that the people at these churches offer you. ~ The Problem ~ How will you determine which of these churches (if any) is representative of the "TRUE" religion?  If you talk to one, or several representatives from each church, and if you take notes, you will quickly come to realize that they all differ in their beliefs.  So...

I Googled "babies in hell" - here are some of the links that pop up: Do Babies Go to Hell When They Die? Do All Infants Go to Heaven? Do Babies Who Die Go to Heaven? Does Jesus Send Non-Christian Babies to Hell? Do babies go to hell because of original sin? What happens to the babies who used to be in limbo? The Loss of Infants: What is their Destiny? Do the souls of aborted babies go to heaven? What Does the Bible Say About Children Going To Hell? If you think you will find the answer to the above questions clearly spelled out in the bible, you are mistaken .  You, dear believer, will be left to fend for yourself, struggling to find an answer that is even remotely clear.  You will search in vain between the covers of your bible for a hint of comfort as you contemplate the destiny of your deceased baby.  You may find consolation from the mouth of a lying minister, but if you have one of those rare honest ministers who prefers to let the bible speak for it's self when pr...

  Dr. Mike Licona A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth. ~Edward De Bono, PO: Beyond Yes And No Back in 2019 , Doug, at his  Pinecreek YouTube channel , interviewed Dr. Mike Licona.  In  this short clip  from that video Mike shares his example of a claimed miraculous event that he finds compelling.  Pinecreek Doug is not terribly impressed but clearly Mike is. Dr. Licona also recounts this same story on his The Risen Jesus podcast titled "The Historian and Miracles" from Feb of 2020 as well - it goes like this: "My friend, Lloyd Reed, back in June of 1987, he was involved in a car crash that put him in a coma for a few weeks. And on July 4th, 1987, his church was out on a picnic and they were praying for Lloyd at four o'clock in the afternoon, they got together to pray for him. And miles away in the hospital at four o'clock, Lloyd came out of his coma." ...

  1 John 5:14-15 And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will , he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. John 17:20-23 “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word ,   that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.   The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one ,   I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one , so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.  ~  ~  ~ If anyone should know the will of God, it is Jesus who should know the will of God. When Jesus prays, it is actually . . . sort of . . . God praying to God. If ever anyone's prayers should be guar...

  rap·ture verb the transporting of believers from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. " During the rapture , Christopher Hitchens angrily  yelled, "What the hell took you so long ?" noun a feeling of intense pleasure or joy by the inhabitants of earth moments after all the believers went to heaven. " Christopher Hitchens experienced great  rapture when he learned that all of the Christians were finally gone ." bob r.u.reasonable@gmail.com