What Jesus Said About Who He Is

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What Jesus Said About Who He Is

Travel with Mart De Haan to the northern region of Israel. Hear from scholars and authorities in the field of New Testament studies as they consider the evidence for and against what Jesus said about Himself. Gain insights from the historical and rational perspectives that distinguish Jesus from other founders of world religions. Explore Jesus’ claim, test what He said, and decide for yourself whether or not you have reason to believe.

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[Nakosis]

What Jesus Said About Who He Is

Travel with Mart De Haan to the northern region of Israel. Hear from scholars and authorities in the field of New Testament studies as they consider the evidence for and against what Jesus said about Himself. Gain insights from the historical and rational perspectives that distinguish Jesus from other founders of world religions. Explore Jesus’ claim, test what He said, and decide for yourself whether or not you have reason to believe.

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If you test something and decide for yourself, what happens with faith?

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What Jesus Said About Who He Is

Travel with Mart De Haan to the northern region of Israel. Hear from scholars and authorities in the field of New Testament studies as they consider the evidence for and against what Jesus said about Himself. Gain insights from the historical and rational perspectives that distinguish Jesus from other founders of world religions. Explore Jesus’ claim, test what He said, and decide for yourself whether or not you have reason to believe.

Click here to watch video

If you test something and decide for yourself, what happens with faith?

It solidifies your faith and makes it stronger. How can you tell someone about Jesus if you are not really convinced yourself that he is real.

[Nakosis]

It solidifies your faith and makes it stronger. How can you tell someone about Jesus if you are not really convinced yourself that he is real.

Faith is necessitated by ignorance. Why would you want to solidify it?

What are you being convinced by? By what you don't know? By what someone else tells you is true?

In the Bible Jesus healed the sick, brought the dead back to life. If you could do that, hey that'd be very convincing in my book.

If all one has is faith without personal knowledge and experience, that's a little hard to trust in don't you think?

If the only thing you are relying on is faith you can't really tell anybody anything that you actual know of. You wouldn't even know if you are misleading them because you don't know. You only have faith that something is true. You'd be asking others to have faith in something that is a matter of your own ignorance.

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It solidifies your faith and makes it stronger. How can you tell someone about Jesus if you are not really convinced yourself that he is real.

Faith is necessitated by ignorance. Why would you want to solidify it?

What are you being convinced by? By what you don't know? By what someone else tells you is true?

In the Bible Jesus healed the sick, brought the dead back to life. If you could do that, hey that'd be very convincing in my book.

If all one has is faith without personal knowledge and experience, that's a little hard to trust in don't you think?

If the only thing you are relying on is faith you can't really tell anybody anything that you actual know of. You wouldn't even know if you are misleading them because you don't know. You only have faith that something is true. You'd be asking others to have faith in something that is a matter of your own ignorance.

Because I've prayed for things and had them happen right before my eyes....... I've done rituals and had demons manifest right before my eyes in the flesh and had Jesus through the Holy Spirit save me from them and myself..... i've seen X-rays of a little girl that had an extra kidney that was not hooked up to her bladder that disappeared when her church laid hands on her and pray for her...... My faith is solid as granet because I don't have to take anyone's word for who Jesus is..... He lives in my body through the Spirit and we converse daily.

If you don't have that in your life and are just going on hope, we should talk, for there is much that the Holy Spirit needs to teach you. Remember that the question I was answering was how testing something helps your faith. When you see things like this happen, you can better trust and believe that Jesus will do the other things that he says will happen.

Problem i've seen in this world is that most people I know are really afraid to step out in faith...... which is basically testing your faith

[Nakosis]

Because I've prayed for things and had them happen right before my eyes....... I've done rituals and had demons manifest right before my eyes in the flesh and had Jesus through the Holy Spirit save me from them and myself..... i've seen X-rays of a little girl that had an extra kidney that was not hooked up to her bladder that disappeared when her church laid hands on her and pray for her...... My faith is solid as granet because I don't have to take anyone's word for who Jesus is..... He lives in my body through the Spirit and we converse daily.

If you don't have that in your life and are just going on hope, we should talk, for there is much that the Holy Spirit needs to teach you.

You mean the word faith in a strange way. If it is something you've experienced then it's that/those experiences you are relying on, not faith.

Faith and hope have about the same meaning. For example "I have faith my spouse won't cheat on me." "I hope my spouse won't cheat on me." I don't see a big difference there. However you seem to think faith has something hope does not.

Faith, hope, trust can usually be used interchangeably.

Anyway the point was that if you test something for yourself and find it works you are relying more on your own experiences and less on faith. This seems to be exactly what you are doing but say it makes your faith more solid whereas it should actually be making your knowledge more solid.

I think a person who speaks from knowledge gained by their personal experience much more convincing then someone relying more on faith. Maybe not absolutely convincing but at least it carries more weight.

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It solidifies your faith and makes it stronger. How can you tell someone about Jesus if you are not really convinced yourself that he is real.

Faith is necessitated by ignorance. Why would you want to solidify it?

What are you being convinced by? By what you don't know? By what someone else tells you is true?

In the Bible Jesus healed the sick, brought the dead back to life. If you could do that, hey that'd be very convincing in my book.

If all one has is faith without personal knowledge and experience, that's a little hard to trust in don't you think?

If the only thing you are relying on is faith you can't really tell anybody anything that you actual know of. You wouldn't even know if you are misleading them because you don't know. You only have faith that something is true. You'd be asking others to have faith in something that is a matter of your own ignorance.

Wrong! Christians do have personal experience and EVIDENCE. This is especially so for someone who has been a Christian for any length of time. First, we have the Holy Spirit of God living in our hearts. Second, we have a personal and daily relationship with God that we KNOW and FEEL. We don't believe in or have faith in Jesus Christ out of ignorance - just the OPPOSITE. Faith is necessary for new Christians because God is not in the business of offering proof to each individual before they will believe. There was a time of many signs and wonders, but most still rejected Jesus Christ, and they had what you're asking for. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, and it's MORE THAN ENOUGH. Christians aren't misleading anyone when we talk about our Living Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He is Absolute Reality to us and can be for you. We do have personal knowledge and experience, and you can also.

John 20:27-31 KJV Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. 30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

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What Jesus Said About Who He Is

Travel with Mart De Haan to the northern region of Israel. Hear from scholars and authorities in the field of New Testament studies as they consider the evidence for and against what Jesus said about Himself. Gain insights from the historical and rational perspectives that distinguish Jesus from other founders of world religions. Explore Jesus’ claim, test what He said, and decide for yourself whether or not you have reason to believe.

Click here to watch video

Excellent! - Thank You!

[Guest shiloh357]

Faith is necessitated by ignorance. Why would you want to solidify it?

That is not really true. Faith is based on evidence. Faith is neither blind nor ignorant regardless of what context you are speaking of.

If the only thing you are relying on is faith you can't really tell anybody anything that you actual know of.

The testimony of the first apostles was not based on faith, but on first hand experience. Unlike those of other religions who die for what they believe, the apostles were willing to die for what they knew pertaining to the resurrection of Jesus.

Faith and hope have about the same meaning.

Not in the way they are used in the Bible. The Bible says that faith is the substance of what we hope for, the evidence of things unseen. (Heb. 11:1) Faith is believing in what God can do. Hope is believing that God will do what He has promised. We have hope in both our own resurrection from the dead and what the Bible calls, "the blessed hope" which is the 2nd coming of Christ. Hope is rooted in faith. Faith is believing that Jesus was raised from the dead and that the His claims and indeed all of the claims of Scripture are vindicated in His resurrection. The hope we have in His promises is rooted in what He has already done. We can hope in the promise of our own resurrection because Jesus was resurrected.

[Believer112]

It solidifies your faith and makes it stronger. How can you tell someone about Jesus if you are not really convinced yourself that he is real.

Faith is necessitated by ignorance. Why would you want to solidify it?

What are you being convinced by? By what you don't know? By what someone else tells you is true?

In the Bible Jesus healed the sick, brought the dead back to life. If you could do that, hey that'd be very convincing in my book.

If all one has is faith without personal knowledge and experience, that's a little hard to trust in don't you think?

If the only thing you are relying on is faith you can't really tell anybody anything that you actual know of. You wouldn't even know if you are misleading them because you don't know. You only have faith that something is true. You'd be asking others to have faith in something that is a matter of your own ignorance.

Because I've prayed for things and had them happen right before my eyes....... I've done rituals and had demons manifest right before my eyes in the flesh and had Jesus through the Holy Spirit save me from them and myself..... i've seen X-rays of a little girl that had an extra kidney that was not hooked up to her bladder that disappeared when her church laid hands on her and pray for her...... My faith is solid as granet because I don't have to take anyone's word for who Jesus is..... He lives in my body through the Spirit and we converse daily.

If you don't have that in your life and are just going on hope, we should talk, for there is much that the Holy Spirit needs to teach you. Remember that the question I was answering was how testing something helps your faith. When you see things like this happen, you can better trust and believe that Jesus will do the other things that he says will happen.

Problem i've seen in this world is that most people I know are really afraid to step out in faith...... which is basically testing your faith

Faith requires action. God's not going to make you do it.