Re - Believing in God

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  • Believing in God
    • Religious Upbringing
      • Bible Verses
        • Honour your father and mother.
        • Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord
        • Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them.
    • Religious Experience: Numinous and Conversion
      • Bible Verses
        • Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
        • He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?” “Who are you, lord?” Saul asked. And the voice replied, “I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!
    • Religious Experience: Miracles and Prayer
      • Bible Verses
        • Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people. They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers.
        • Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped.
        • Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes
        • Holding her hand, he said to her, “Little girl, get up!” And the girl, who was twelve years old, immediately stood up and walked around!
        • Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. And as he did, the man’s feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened.
    • Prayer
      • Bible Verses
        • Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
    • Christian responses to the problem of evil and suffering
      • Bible Verses
        • So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden
        • For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
        • He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain.
    • Christian responses to scientific explanations of the world
      • Bible Verses
        • In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    • Unanswered Prayers
      • Bible Verses
        • Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.
    • The Problem of Evil and Suffering
      • Bible Verses
        • Then Jesus uttered another loud cry and breathed his last.
        • Then at three o’clock Jesus called out with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
        • All right, you may test him,” the Lord said to Satan.
        • I will never again curse the ground because of the human race
        • You did it secretly, but I will make this happen to you openly in the sight of all Israel.
        • For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the Lord, and he has sent us to destroy it.
        • “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God.
  • Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

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