@chaney3 said
So again, why didn't Jesus help John the Baptist?
Possible answers:
It was God's will to have John killed in the manner in which he did, beheaded.
It was God's will to save John, but He couldn't interfere with the free will of the mother and daughter who requested the head of John the Baptist.
*****I'm just a bit curious where the confidence level of prayers should be when God won't interfere with free will*****
Jesus told us that God is the God of the living not the dead, He said that when He was speaking about people who left this life long ago. The point being our lives don’t end here when we leave we go to our Creator. What happens here is we are either being transformed into beings like Christ by God, or not.
Now in this life we walk by faith in reality which we don’t see clearly and understand, somethings we get it right, others not so much. How we walk molds us as life occurs when the good and the bad happen.
With God in the end all of the illusions, our misconceptions, self-deception will disappear and we will be authentic and will be apart of the Kingdom of God, not one observing from the outside, but sons and daughters of the most High God.
So leaving this life isn’t the end, for some all their hopes perish because they were all about what is in this life, others have a foretaste with the Holy Spirit of the Eternal One, death here is swallowed up in Christ’s victory over death, hell, and grave. John simply left this place for the next, something everyone of us are going to do, even if Jesus saved him then he would still die.