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An Appointment with God

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/Saint-John-the-Baptist-Sees-Jesus-from-Afar-Saint-Jean-Baptiste-voit-Jesus-de-loin.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do you suppose God leaves us with so many unanswered questions? And why are some of the truths of the Bible so, well, obscure? If God wants us to know something, why doesn't He come right out and say so? The fact is, that on the really important things, God does come right out and say so, but there's a whole lot more to be known and God has placed in the heart of man the desire to know everything. We are not just content with a little bit of knowledge. We want to know the whys and the wherefores and we get those answers, and we still have more questions. Everything of course, is a little more than our small brains can hold, but there is a lot more that we can know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Paul said, "Now we know in part" (1 Corinthians 13:9). We call the Bible "the Word of God", and indeed it is, but that word comes to us in the form of the testimony of a cloud of witnesses. And just as a good investigator can take the testimony of one witness, combine it with the testimony of another witness, he can then come to know something that actually isn't in the testimony of either one of them, and it is only by knowing what both of them said, that you can discern what really happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So we can sometimes find insights into things that are not actually said by any of the witnesses in the Bible, we do it by taking a little bit here and a little bit there and we say, "Wait a minute, why did he say that?" It is like a great puzzle of life where we struggle to put together all the pieces and discover pictures previously unknown and unseen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  Why do you suppose God leaves us with so many unanswered questions? And why are some of the truths of the Bible so, well, obscure? If God wants us to know something, why doesn't He come right out and say so? The fact is, that on the really important thi

Behold the Lamb of God

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Passover Service 2001

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/The-Evil-Council.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the Pope viewed Mel Gibson&amp;rsquo;s movie, &lt;cite&gt;The Passion of Jesus Christ&lt;/cite&gt;, he is said to have remarked, &lt;q&gt;It is as it was.&lt;/q&gt; The Vatican later tried to spin that remark to bring it back in bounds, but I have little doubt the Pope said exactly that—because that is the avowed object of the movie, to tell the story of the suffering of Jesus &lt;em&gt;as it was&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But that seems to be a real problem. And if the Pope is right, then it is not Mel Gibson&amp;rsquo;s movie that is the problem; it is the Bible. Few things I have read bring this into focus like an article in the February 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Newsweek by Jon Meacham. In his article titled, &lt;cite&gt;Who Killed Jesus?&lt;/cite&gt; he asks:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;q&gt;Does the death, the execution of Jesus lie at the feet of the Jewish people?&lt;/q&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No. It does not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But making that simple denial does not tell the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  When the Pope viewed Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of Jesus Christ, he is said to have remarked, It is as it was. The Vatican later tried to spin that remark to bring it back in bounds, but I have little doubt the Pope said exactly that—because that i

Who Killed Christ?

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/Sun-and-Moon-in-Sky.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love a good mystery. Puzzle solving is a favorite pastime of mine. So perhaps I can be forgiven for saying in a recent radio program that God also loves a mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes of course, God speaks plainly&amp;mdash;the Ten Commandments are plain enough&amp;mdash;but at other times the truth is far more subtle. I might offer reasons for God&amp;rsquo;s subtlety, and they are there, but I hardly need to prove that. Anyone who pays attention to God&amp;rsquo;s actions in the world will be well aware that God prefers to be subtle, even when you&amp;rsquo;re confident that when something has happened has been his intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Bible is more than mere subtlety. It is a collection of the testimony of witnesses, and while I certainly believe in the inspiration of the Bible, I also believe that God doesn&amp;rsquo;t engage in witness tampering. The Holy Spirit sees to it that the witnesses are in court and that they tell the truth. After that, we the jury have to evaluate their testimony and try to figure out the larger picture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you have ever watched a bunch of Perry Mason mysteries, or this type of courtroom dramas, you can often find your way to the truth of what happened. We know this even though no individual witness knows the whole story. You get a little bit from this fellow, you get a little bit from that fellow, and you get something from a third lady; and between those three things, the picture comes together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, something like that exists in the Bible. There is enough corroboration of the gospel accounts to support the key elements of their stories. They all saw the resurrected Christ, for example, and they are all unified. Now there may be little details, but those aren&amp;rsquo;t important. The differences that you find in the accounts show us that the witnesses were not in collusion, in other words, this is important to establish the fact that there were four witnesses, not four witnesses telling one witnesses&amp;rsquo; story, if you follow me. There are some first-class mysteries in the New Testament and many of them have kept scholars scratching their heads for years and provided material for countless doctoral dissertations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consider a case in point, the mystery of how you get three days and three nights between Friday night to Sunday morning?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  I love a good mystery. Puzzle solving is a favorite pastime of mine. So perhaps I can be forgiven for saying in a recent radio program that God also loves a mystery. Sometimes of course, God speaks plainly—the Ten Commandments are plain enough—but at ot

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