16 Oct 22
Jesus could have helped him, but didn't.
John the Baptist sent his followers to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah. The response from Jesus was to have the followers go back and tell John how Jesus is performing miracles, healing, and helping many people,,,, well, except for John the Baptist.
They were related, cousins, and Jesus let him remain in prison to get beheaded.
I'm curious about why Jesus chose to ignore John when he needed Jesus the most.
@chaney3 saidJesus suffered and died and even told those around Him it was going occur before it did. Why would Jesus stop what was going to occur to John when He did not stop what was going to happen to Himself?
Jesus could have helped him, but didn't.
John the Baptist sent his followers to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah. The response from Jesus was to have the followers go back and tell John how Jesus is performing miracles, healing, and helping many people,,,, well, except for John the Baptist.
They were related, cousins, and Jesus let him remain in prison to get beheaded.
I'm curious about why Jesus chose to ignore John when he needed Jesus the most.
16 Oct 22
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@kellyjay said#1 Jesus supposedly died for a very good reason.
Jesus suffered and died and even told those around Him it was going occur before it did. Why would Jesus stop what was going to occur to John when He did not stop what was going to happen to Himself?
#2 John the Baptist died because a girl asked her mom what she should ask for, and the mom suggested the head of John the Baptist. It seems a very insignificant death, and almost trivial.
#3 Jesus was helping many, many people and made sure that John the Baptist knew about it.
16 Oct 22
@chaney3 saidMany of God’s people laid down their lives for their faith in God. God calls us to lay down for Him as He laid down His life for us. The difference between Christ and the world is just that, Christ came to make the guilty righteous, while the world needs us to be good enough. This life is not the end, it reveal what we are!
#1 Jesus supposedly died for a very good reason.
#2 John the Baptist died because a girl asked her mom what she should ask for, and the mom suggested the head of John the Baptist. It seems a very insignificant death, and almost trivial.
#3 Jesus was helping many, many people and made sure that John the Baptist knew about it.
16 Oct 22
@kellyjay saidI hear many Christians speak highly of looking forward to eternity with God, while minimizing the experience on earth as if it's meaningless and just something to get through until death.
Many of God’s people laid down their lives for their faith in God. God calls us to lay down for Him as He laid down His life for us. The difference between Christ and the world is just that, Christ came to make the guilty righteous, while the world needs us to be good enough. This life is not the end, it reveal what we are!
Life should mean something, or why bother giving us life?
John the Baptist was killed in an almost ho-hum sort of way, as if his life meant nothing. And Jesus, his cousin, could have easily helped him, but didn't.
Why does anyone even pray to Jesus if they suspect that for some reason he won't help them, just as he didn't help John the Baptist?
@kellyjay saidYou believe Christ has made you "righteous"? Even though, as you claimed here just the other day, you are "as equally evil as a rapist"?
The difference between Christ and the world is just that, Christ came to make the guilty righteous, while the world needs us to be good enough.
17 Oct 22
@chaney3 saidWe are going to be there much longer than here.
I hear many Christians speak highly of looking forward to eternity with God, while minimizing the experience on earth as if it's meaningless and just something to get through until death.
Life should mean something, or why bother giving us life?
John the Baptist was killed in an almost ho-hum sort of way, as if his life meant nothing. And Jesus, his cousin, could have e ...[text shortened]... us if they suspect that for some reason he won't help them, just as he didn't help John the Baptist?
09 Nov 22
@kellyjay saidAs someone who claims to truly believe that all his non Christian family, friends and neighbours will be supernaturally kept alive and burnt alive for all eternity… what deeds and words do you carry out to demonstrate to those people how you are laying down your life?
God calls us to lay down for Him as He laid down His life for us.
09 Nov 22
@divegeester saidIf you want to justify yourself by telling people about all of your good deeds, go for
As someone who claims to truly believe that all his non Christian family, friends and neighbours will be supernaturally kept alive and burnt alive for all eternity… what deeds and words do you carry out to demonstrate to those people how you are laying down your life?
it. That type of thing is between God and each of us.