The Word This Week
Acts 13:4…
The thing we must understand about Biblical Christianity – as opposed the vague misunderstandings about Christianity represented by the majority of churches meeting today is Christianity is supernatural in every way.
You cannot be Christian without understanding everything you are has a supernatural basis.
Even the material realm has this basis. Stop and think for a moment. How can two material cells coming together cause life to begin?
The question people seem to wrestle with is how long that life, once begun, will last? Is life a mere chemical reaction of billions of cells interacting with each other in a purely physical sense - or is ‘life’ evidenced by the soul alive within man.
Logically, if life is the chemical reaction of a bunch of cells - and purely material - how can anyone be held responsible for anything they do? It was the chemicals that made them do whatever they did. How could. judge and jury seek justice if behavior is just chemical reactions taking place in the brain?
And that’s the whole point of materialism, isn’t it? Ultimately, to escape judgment.
But then, materialists go contrary to the logic of their own belief system and judge people all the time.
The Book of Acts, (among many things it teaches anyone paying attention,) is that Christianity is supernatural in every way. It was never intended to be anything other than supernatural.
Paul recognized this immediately through his conversion on the Damascus Road. His faith in God was no longer some vague, legalistic, distant thing. It was immediate, and it was overwhelming. He was riding along, (or walking,) the road to Damascus when a bright light from heaven suddenly shone around him. Inexplicable. Incredible. There was NO natural explanation. He found himself suddenly prone on the ground, being queried by Jesus Himself. What? How could this be?
Now on Cypress, in the very act of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the proconsul, (an intelligent man named Sergius Paulus,) Paul and Barnabas find themselves opposed by a sorcerer named Elymas.
Paul, perhaps thinking back to how it was Jesus had arrested himself on the Damascus Road, called for the same exact treatment for Elymas. “Be blinded!” (For a time.)
And he was.
The only way for Paul to resort to the supernatural was to completely believe in the supernatural. How about you?
Pastor Bill
The thing we must understand about Biblical Christianity – as opposed the vague misunderstandings about Christianity represented by the majority of churches meeting today is Christianity is supernatural in every way.
You cannot be Christian without understanding everything you are has a supernatural basis.
Even the material realm has this basis. Stop and think for a moment. How can two material cells coming together cause life to begin?
The question people seem to wrestle with is how long that life, once begun, will last? Is life a mere chemical reaction of billions of cells interacting with each other in a purely physical sense - or is ‘life’ evidenced by the soul alive within man.
Logically, if life is the chemical reaction of a bunch of cells - and purely material - how can anyone be held responsible for anything they do? It was the chemicals that made them do whatever they did. How could. judge and jury seek justice if behavior is just chemical reactions taking place in the brain?
And that’s the whole point of materialism, isn’t it? Ultimately, to escape judgment.
But then, materialists go contrary to the logic of their own belief system and judge people all the time.
The Book of Acts, (among many things it teaches anyone paying attention,) is that Christianity is supernatural in every way. It was never intended to be anything other than supernatural.
Paul recognized this immediately through his conversion on the Damascus Road. His faith in God was no longer some vague, legalistic, distant thing. It was immediate, and it was overwhelming. He was riding along, (or walking,) the road to Damascus when a bright light from heaven suddenly shone around him. Inexplicable. Incredible. There was NO natural explanation. He found himself suddenly prone on the ground, being queried by Jesus Himself. What? How could this be?
Now on Cypress, in the very act of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the proconsul, (an intelligent man named Sergius Paulus,) Paul and Barnabas find themselves opposed by a sorcerer named Elymas.
Paul, perhaps thinking back to how it was Jesus had arrested himself on the Damascus Road, called for the same exact treatment for Elymas. “Be blinded!” (For a time.)
And he was.
The only way for Paul to resort to the supernatural was to completely believe in the supernatural. How about you?
Pastor Bill