Is God Dead??

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Title: If God is Dead!
Post by: Kerminator

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 I have always been a free thinker, using my God given intelligence to seek and make determinations as to what is the truth!
 If God is Dead; then first why do those who think so keep talking about HIM? 

 If they have come to the conclusion that God does not exist; then just why do they carry on in books and blogs about a supposedly non existent person or thing? 
 It has always astounded me, how so many people with certain ideas become obsessed with proving something they believe is non existent; if it is not there!  

 

Really, HUH!! I have never had that problem, personally!
 Well just for starters,  while modern science has much proof in the solar system, and stars when they have observed how it functions;  they still do not have any idea why the earth continues to turns and the planets spin around the Sun!  They are clueless as to how most of the systems in the known world continue to operate... 
 Odd, yet they keep saying there is no God,  but HIS presence is everywhere...      Have you stopped to look lately?

  
The real dilemma is that most of people who claim there is no God; do not really  know where to look, or exactly who or what they expect to find in any case!  

** Life For Today Study Bible Notes

Note 7 at Romans 1:6: This verse states that we are “the called of Jesus Christ.” The next verse (Romans 1:7) states to what Jesus has called us: He called us to be saints (see note 5 at Acts 9:13). God’s grace has extended the call (or invitation) to every person to become a saint through salvation (Titus 2:11), but not everyone chooses to respond positively to this call. If a person rejects God’s call, then God chooses to reject that person (Luke 12:9 and 1 John 2:23), therefore the statement of Matthew 22:14, “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

 Note 8 at Romans 1:7: 
 It is one of the greatest truths of the Bible, and also one of the hardest to comprehend, that we are the objects of God’s love. God didn’t just pity us or feel some sense of moral obligation to save us; He saved us because of His infinite love for us (John 3:16). An experiential understanding of God’s love is the key to being filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19).

Note on Romans 1:16

The Greek word “EUAGGELION,” which was translated “gospel” in this verse, was used seventy-seven times in the New Testament in seventy-four verses. It was translated “gospel” seventy-four times and “gospel’s” three times. It means “good message” or “good news” (Vine’s Expository Dictionary). But it actually means more than that. This Greek word was so seldom used that I only found two examples of its usage outside of the Bible. The reason for that was because it really means the nearly-too-good-to-be-true news. And there is precious little outside of the news of what Jesus did for us that is nearly-too-good-to-be-true news. But when Jesus took all of our sin and paid the debt we owed and then gave us new life, that was nearly too good to be true. So, this word became correctly associated with the salvation Jesus provided for us.

This Greek word, as used in the Bible, also stresses the means by which we appropriate the great benefits of our salvation. This all comes by faith in God’s grace (see my note at Ephesians 2:8). Galatians 1:6 and Acts 20:24 use the words “grace” and “gospel” interchangeably. This is very important. Any teaching that doesn’t emphasize grace as the way of receiving what Jesus provided isn’t the true Gospel. As Paul phrased it in Galatians 1:7, trying to receive from God by our own effort is a perversion of the Gospel. That’s often harder to deal with than out-and-out rejection, because it’s more subtle. That’s the condition of the church today.

The Greek word “PROTON,” which was translated “first” in this verse, means “firstly (in time, place, order, or importance)” (Strong’s Concordance). It was translated “beginning” in John 2:10 and “before” in John 15:18. In those verses, it is clearly speaking of being the first in a sequence.

Therefore, this verse is speaking of the Jews being the first to receive the Gospel, before the Gentiles–not being ahead in importance or closer to salvation.

Life For Today Study Bible Notes

Note 1 at Romans 1:16: The Gospel is the power of God that releases the effects of salvation in our lives. Salvation is much more than just being born again. This refers to every benefit that the believer is entitled to through Jesus. Therefore, if we are not experiencing the abundance that Jesus provided for us–in any area of our lives–then we are having a problem understanding and/or believing the Gospel.
The term “Gospel” has become so familiar to Christians that the true meaning and understanding have been lost. As discussed in note 5 at Acts 20:24 and note 7 at Matthew 24:14, the truths of the Gospel are not commonly preached or understood in many churches. This is the reason that so many Christians are not walking in all the benefits of their salvation. They don’t have the power of the Gospel working in them.
If a person needs healing, it’s in the Gospel. If deliverance is needed, it’s in the Gospel. Prosperity, answered prayer, joy, peace, love–they are all found through understanding and believing the Gospel.
Note 2 at Romans 1:16: In the Bible, most English words that end with the suffix “-eth” carry the idea of an act or process that continues. So, the person that “believeth” is a person who has believed and is continuing to believe.
In the Greek language, the word that was translated “believeth” here is a present participle that expresses the idea of a continuous and repeated action. Therefore, the faith that results in salvation cannot be abandoned and still produce its results (Hebrews 6:4-6, 10:29; and Colossians 1:21-23). It may appear to be abandoned, as in the case of Peter when he denied the Lord (Luke 22:57-62), but Jesus had prayed that his “faith fail not” (see note 2 at Luke 22:32).
The Scriptures present true Bible faith as an ongoing experience, not a one-time action.

Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
 

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