(March 28, 2016 at 10:02 pm)Cecelia Wrote:(March 28, 2016 at 7:38 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christianity comes from what Christ did in His life, death and resurrection. God formed the Jewish nation, the Jews did not form God. God used the Jewish nation to bring Jesus to the world, the OT gives us many prophecies about the coming of Jesus and His life, death and resurrection. Most but not all Jews have rejected the promised Messiah, why do you think they have suffered so much since Jesus ascension.
The Koran was written long after Jesus said the work of God in redemption on this earth was finished, was no need for the Koran and it's writers.
GC
You only know any of that happened because... wait for it... THE BIBLE! If the Bible isn't true, then all that is nothing but lies.
There's no proof of Jesus's ascension, and no proof Jesus even existed.
Why do so many bad things happen to Christians then? Hmm?
God has proven to me He is real, leaving no doubts or worries, He proved himself to me through answered prayer explaining the Bible to me, answers no one could have given me not even myself.
Even many atheist believe that there was a man named Jesus who was written about in the scriptures. Then if there was certain proof, you would be a believer without the faith, and God gave us free will and faith to show our love for Him.
God makes the sun shine on good people and bad people, the rain to fall on the good and bad. No one is exempt from the bad or the good. Many Christians suffer from doing God's work, work that needs to be done to help those in need, this is not punishment by any means. The Jews as a whole have suffered for rejecting the Messiah sent through them to all man kind, one day they will be restored, actually it's already begun. The nation of Israel is the only one that has ever been restored after nearly 2000 years, no other country has ever come close to this, most never are restored, strange isn't it that this prophecy in the scriptures has come to pass, a book that most atheist believes holds no truth.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.