What is God like? .. How to discern what God is?

Is there a God? If so, what is She like?

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What is God like? .. How to discern what God is?

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Is The Human Brain Hardwired for God?

Why do we have a Conscience if there is no God?

As the Bible can seem to be a contradiction in terms. It's no wonder people often turn away and look the other direction. But in order to see truth we must all be looking the same way, in one direction.
Can we favour one way of being over another by rejecting one for the other without creating double standards. Can we live a life like that? One has to look at both sides of a story before one can discern what's true and what isn't, what's absolutely JUST and what's not..and live by that alone as conclusive evidence.

Just who do you think it is that is living your life?
Do you honestly believe it is you in that casket at the death of the body?

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14 Bible Verses That Indicate Jesus Is Not God

1. Matthew 24:36
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the Father only.
Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and what the Father knows.

2. Matthew 26:39
My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will, but as Thou will.
Jesus’ will is likewise autonomous from God’s Will. Jesus is seeking acquiescence to God’s will.

3. John 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
Jesus received his life from God. God received his life from no one. He is eternally self-existent.

4. John 5:30
By myself, I can do nothing: I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who has sent me.
Jesus says, “by myself, I can do nothing.” This indicates that Jesus is relying upon his own relationship with God. He is not trying to “please myself” but rather is seeking to “please the one who sent me.”

5. John 5:19
The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son does also.
Jesus declares that he is following a pattern laid down by God. He is expressing obedience to God.

6. Mark 10:18
Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone.
Here Jesus emphatically makes a distinction between himself and God.

7. John 14:28
The Father is greater than I.
This is another strong statement that makes a distinction between Jesus and God.

8. Matthew 6:9
Our Father, which art in Heaven.
He didn’t pray, Our Father, which art standing right here!”

9. Matthew 27:46
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Inconceivable if he is God the Creator.

10. John 17:21-23
. . .that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. . ..that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me.
In this prayer Jesus defines the term “to be one.” It is clearly accomplished through the relationship of two autonomous beings. Christian believers are to model their relationship (to become one) after the relationship of God and Christ (as God and Christ are one). Notice that “to be one” does not mean to be “one and the same.”

11. 1 Corinthians 15:27-28
For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.
Paul declares that God put everything under Christ, except God himself. Instead God rules all things through Christ. (remember: “through him all things were made.”)

12. Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.
Jesus is the exact representation of his being. I send my representative to Congress. He is not me, myself. He is my representative.

13. Hebrews 4:15 (compared with James 1:13)
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet without sin.
Jesus has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he never sinned. See

James 1:13: When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt.
Jesus was tempted in every way, but God cannot be tempted. This is why Jesus said, “don’t call me good, none are good, only God.”

14. Hebrews 5:7-9
During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Jesus had to walk a course of faith and obedience in order to achieve perfection. By achieving perfection, Jesus “became” the source of eternal salvation
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Jesus is not God his Father...he knows his Father but cannot be his Father.

Jesus cannot see his Father, no more than he can see his own face..and therefore is reliant on being the mirror image of his Father...Jesus is made in the image of his Father and through that reflect can see his Father.

His Father being the imageless creator of every image in his image.

Life is a mental construct of itself, images and concepts, sounds and sensations made in it's image.

We can only draw upon what has past, in other words what was first, ...in order to live a live present now... because the future never happens. Only the past happened, the past always being first and last in the same moment..continuing as remembered by being drawn upon.. brought back to life, being constantly re-lived in the ever unfolding present appearing as if life is one continuous streaming seamless event, the present being the only place and time there is, the only place happenings happen. Death and Life being the same one seamless reality eternally intertwined as one unit.
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Are you trying to be a pastor - rotsap?
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