ihatesociety111
Hey, I have a couple of questions to ask.
1) God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all one entity right?
2) Do aliens exist?
3) Why do ghosts exist? I heard from my bible study teacher that the instant you die, God will judge you and decide if you go to heaven or hell.
4) How do you know that a church is corrupt and brainwashing you? My parents told me that their is this church that teaches these weird twisted versions of the bible to teens. This church targets young adults/teens and bribes them with money. Since I'm moving away, how do I keep myself away from such churches? I heard that you don't even know that your being brainwashed.
Thanks in advance for the answers. I don't feel comfortable asking my pastor these questions since I just got confirmed a month ago.
sweatdrop
I will attempt to answer your questions. ^^ Thank you for asking. Maybe we'll both learn something,
1. Are you asking if they are all God? Sometimes it is easier saying what they are not, so I will start of with that. They are not God putting on a mask. Yahweh is not one time the Holy Spirit and the next moment Jesus, or the Father. They are separate persons, yet they are all Yahweh, they are all God. Not different gods, but the same God. Existing at the same time. Having always existed. Equal in power, in presence and omnipotence.
You can see in Jesus work that He is God. He saw into people's hearts and knew their thoughts.
Luke 9:47
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him.
Matthew 9:4
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
1 Kings 8:39
then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart),
He received worship and did not correct those that worshiped him;
Matthew 4:10
Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
Matthew 2:11
And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
John 12:13
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
Matthew 28:9
And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
He has power over life and death. The weather did His bidding, and He could forgive sin.
Something only God can. The religious authorities knew at the time knew this, and it was why they were so offended with Jesus. He was with His miracles proving to be no ordinary prophet but God, and with His claim to be able to forgive sin He was making Himself equal to God which is in other words the same as saying you are God.
Luke 5:17-26
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic
Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”
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