Why did He die so young?

3 more great questions from Wauchope youngsters:

 

Hi G.......

Your first question was: "How did God die so early?"
I guess you mean: Why did Jesus die so young?  Yes?
It might look as if evil won when the Son of God, who never sinned, was executed as a criminal after healing thousands of people. Actually Jesus was in control and it was a mighty triumph once He had risen from the dead after 3 days. Finally the end of sin and death is in sight!
This was all predicted by the prophets 100's of years before - even the date it would happen!
Daniel recorded that the Messiah would be 'cut off and shall have nothing' - Jesus lost not only His friends but even His clothes.
Isaiah recorded: "...who shall declare his generation (family)? for he was cut off out of the land of the living..."
He would die young and childless.



Water everywhere: Sea, fog & ice



Q2 "How can He be everywhere if there is only One."

Remember our water demo? Water is amazing - it can be a vapour, a liquid, and a solid, all at the same time.
So God is invisible but He is everywhere and when Jesus was here you could touch Him and talk to Him like anybody else.
(Remind me to show you the egg and the matches demos.)

 

Hi M.........

You asked the question so many other children (and adults) ask: "Who created God?"
Have you heard about God talking to Moses from a burning bush?

God told Moses that it was 'I AM' that was sending Moses to rescue His people from slavery in Egypt. What a weird Name! This is translated from the Hebrew: Ehyeh - Asher - Ehyah which really means 'I was/I am/I will be'.

In other words, God has always been and always will be. Can we get our heads around that? No way! We can't hope to fully understand the one true Almighty God who created the universe just by commanding it to happen.
It's a bit like you and I. Our existence is so miraculous the doctors can't fully explain how (e.g. meiosis & mitosis ) - but we are real aren't we?
What I do know is that God is real too, and BIG and POWERFUL and full of love for us.   

Hi J.......

Q. "How do you really know if the Bible tells the truth?"
Fair enough, but I'm going to ask you a question first:
Can you change anything that happened yesterday? Of course not? 
That means that history has the last say. Yes?
Not only does the Bible match up with other historic records and archaeological finds (what's dug up with a spade) but...(get this)... over and over again God would predict through His Jewish prophets in the Bible what would happen in the future and it happened exactly like He said it would!.....not once or twice but 100's of times in history!  That's more than enough proof for me.
In fact, it is still happening today. Wow.

For the next post click on:
http://godspostbox.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/why-didnt-god-get-rid-of-bad-people.html

Why can't we see God?

Wauchope's youngsters keep coming in with their questions:

 

Hi ..........
Q. Why can God & Jesus see us but we can't see them?
Yes, God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent - that means He is all-knowing, all-powerful and everywhere - plus the Bible tells us: "No-one has seen God at anytime." However it goes on to say: "God abides in us...He has given to us of His Spirit."
God has a presence here now in many real people.

Remember the play we did about the woman at the well outside the town of Sychar?

Jesus said to her: "God is a spirit...." but who really was this Man who not only humbled Himself to speak to this poor social outcast but revealed to her that He is the Christ? 
Was she talking with God? Wow!!

Remember also the water demo we did together... vapour, liquid, and solid. God is invisible but He is everywhere and was as touchable as you and I.

God is not so invisible as we might think and we will see Jesus again, which gives me so much hope. 

Hi J.........

You asked:
"If God is real why doesn't He show Himself?"
My dear, God is real and He has shown Himself - as close as He could get, deliberately being born into a poor family, then living with us for 33 and 1/2 years, feeding, healing and teaching 1000's of people, and even raising the dead. This is not some fairy story in a weird old book - this is an historic fact. Our faith is not based on superstition or imagination but on real evidence.
Yes, Jesus Christ is God showing Himself in a real human body and look what we did to Him.
Meanwhile God is waiting patiently in grace for us to accept Jesus as our Saviour and Lord before He judges this evil world.
By the way, 'Bible' comes from the ancient Greek word biblia since the Scriptures were written on papyrus from the port of Byblos.
 

G'day D........

You asked: "How can I summon God?"
Mmm...I've never been asked that one before!
My initial reaction was to think that you can't do that because we are only God's creatures whereas He is the Almighty Creator. However....the dictionary says that summon means to 'send for or ask the attendance of' so perhaps you're right after all.
Three young men like you come to mind:
Nothing bad is ever said about Joseph who had a healthy fear of God who gave him interpretation of dreams.
Nothing bad is ever said about Daniel who 'desired mercies of the God of the heavens'.
The last one is Gideon who twice put God to the test with a fleece of wool in Judges chapter 7.
The point is these guys asked in humility for God to answer them - and He did!
So there's your answer - summon with humility and you will be answered

Hi A.........

Q. "How do you know that the 3 men died?"
At first I thought you were asking about the video of 3 Jewish princes, Daniel's friends, that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had thrown into the fiery furnace for not worshipping his idol. Of course that didn't kill them - only the guards died.
Then I realized you must be asking about the 3 men who were crucified, Jesus being in the middle. Yes?
It's like this.......In our courts today, evidence is proved with 2 witnesses but the Bible gives us 2 x 2 witness for the death of Jesus, from: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, who all give us incredible detail.
We know that Jesus died after 6 hours on the cross... but to make sure He was dead they speared Him as well! Then they broke the legs of the 2 criminals to speed up their deaths. A Roman centurion dare not fail in his duty or he could find himself banished to row in the galleys with the slaves.

For next post click on: http://godspostbox.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/why-did-he-die-so-young.html
 

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Beechwood: 'Growing & Learning Together'

Here is what the boys & girls have asked today - let's see if we can give them reasonable answers...


Hi Bree,

Your question was: "Do you believe that the world was once covered and that made the plants and animals live longer? Why is that?"

Yes, I do believe the world was once protected by some sort of shell. Whether that made the plants and animals live longer, I don't know - I wasn't there to see it, but certainly there is plenty of fossil evidence that plants and animals were once a lot larger than they are today.

Okay, why do I believe this?
The Bible tells us: "God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament."
This word firmament comes from the Hebrew word raqiya which means 'expanse' from 'armour plating'.

1656 years later 'all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened' to cause the Earth to be completely flooded with water. (Scientists know that all continents were once under sea water. There are even clam-shell fossils on Mt. Everest!)
Also they have been able to compress hydrogen to the stage where it becomes like a translucent, metallic shell a bit like our computer screens. They have also grown huge plants in oxygen-rich air and some people use hyperbaric chambers to accelerate healing. My guess is that we would possibly live longer with more oxygen and more protection from solar radiation.

Hi Rosie,

You asked :"Why did God make things that can kill you?"
He didn't!
Listen to this: "God said, Look, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be for food for you; and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens (birds), and to every thing that creeps on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food."

Before Adam and Eve disobeyed God in His garden, people and animals were all herbivores. There was no death at all until then and people were not permitted to eat meat until after the Great Flood. Man's sin has brought terrible consequences on the whole Earth: disease, pain, sorrow, suffering, cruelty, death......

 

 

Hi there Holly & Jolly! (Joey)
This is what you asked:
"Why are there demons here when God is around?
Prove how God is real. There must be a reason."

You would know that good and evil is very real on Earth.

Well, this what the Bible says:
"...our struggle is not against blood and flesh (people), but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies."
Yes, good and evil is also very real in heaven too!
Why does God permit demons? I don't know but I do know that His influence on Earth restrains the forces of evil which would be much worse otherwise.
He will deal with evil in heaven and on Earth in His own time.

As for proving God is real - you guys are enough proof.

You are miracles, you are unique, and you each have a conscience. If that's not enough, one of your mothers produced a boy and the other mother a girl - more of the miraculous!

For next post click on: http://godspostbox.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/answers-please-god.html
 
  

Wauchope needs...more hope!

We're just going to share with you what the boys and girls have been asking this week:

Hi ..........
"Did He have any sisters?"
Jesus?...sure!
We know that Jesus had 4 younger brothers: James, Joses, Judas and Simon along with 'sisters', in other words He had at least 2 sisters.
Just think what a challenge it must have been for them all to realize that their oldest brother was the 'Son of God'! They didn't believe on Him until He had risen from the dead after having been crucified.

G'day .........
You asked: "How do you know if God is real?"
This is what the Bible tells us: "God, who made the world and everything in it....gives to all life, breath and all things...so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being."
It's like this B........: we need to open our eyes and start looking for evidence of God for ourselves. Even a blind man with useless eyes knows that his body is miraculous, that he is unique in the history of the world and that he has a conscience. From there we can look at history or astronomy or geology or biology or...........you name it.
Why not ask God to prove Himself to you?

Hi .......

Oh dear, you do ask some hard ones!..."What is God?"
I'm still learning about God, even after 50 years, so the best I can do for you is tell you some of the ways the Bible describes God:
"God is light"..."God is love"..."our Saviour God"..."the Almighty"..."I AM"..."the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit"..."the Beginning and the End"..."the Judge of all the Earth"..."the King of kings and the Lord of lords"..."the Ancient of Days"... "the Creator"...and so on...and on.
By trusting in Jesus the 'Son of God' he introduces us to "my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God."
We come to know the Almighty God as our very own Father in heaven.


G'day C.......
You made the comment: "If God is real that means we're all related."
Yes, spot on. No wonder geneticists tell us that all males on Earth carry the same 'Y chromosome Adam' and that we all carry one of 3 types of 'mitochondrial Eve' as the energy program in our body cells. In case you didn't know there were 8 of Noah's family came out of the ark, including 3 daughters-in-law who re-populated the Earth.
Since we are all related we must not marry close relatives or the genetic mutations in our family will show up in the children produced.
Well said my friend. 

G'day D......

You wanted to know: "Why can't we see God?"
Whoa!...that's a hard one.
Okay, the Bible tells us that "God is a spirit" and that "no-one has seen God at anytime", however....
God has graciously chosen to reveal Himself in Jesus, so if you had lived on Earth nearly 2000 years ago you would definitely have been able to see this real Man, talk to Him and see the amazing miracles He performed.
  

Hi there K......

The Bible is 'woven' together

"Who wrote the Bible?"
About 40 different people from all walks of life, nearly all Jews, wrote the books of the Bible, although we do not know who wrote a few of them.
It was written over ~1600 years, using 3 languages, on 3 continents. Somebody took the time to graph all the cross-referencing between the various books by listing them down both sides - see how it all fits together like it was woven!
Who could organise such a brilliant publication, now in English for us to read, thousands of years later?

Hi there K.........

You wanted to know: "Who created God?"
Nobody. God has always been and always will be.
He tells us one of His names is 'I AM' - imagine how silly that would look on our gravestones, where 'I was' would be more appropriate, hey.
Yes, I know we can't get our heads around that so please don't expect me to try and explain it. I can't.
All I know is our God is real, He is awesomely BIG and POWERFUL, and He loves us so very much.
You and I are enough proof that God is. 

G'day L..........

"Did Jesus have any true friends and did He hate anyone."

This is what Jesus had to say just before He was arrested: "You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants....but I have called you friends". Only an hour or two later 'all the disciples forsook Him and fled' - they were scared of being arrested - but next morning John is standing by the cross of Jesus.
No, Jesus did not hate anyone but we might think He had good cause to feel that way towards Judas who had agreed to betray Him for 30 pieces of silver. Knowing this Jesus still shared a meal with him - and even washed his dirty feet!
Jesus did have some well-deserved hot words for the religious people: hypocrites! blind guides! fools! serpents! sons of snakes!- but that's different to hate.


G'day S......

You were asking: "If God was a good guy why did He create hell?"

Fair enough...let's see what the Bible has to say about that one...
Jesus did say: "No-one is good but One, that is, God." and I'm sure you would agree that none of us are actually all that good. Soon after that Jesus said that: "the everlasting fire is prepared for the devil and his angels."
So, get the picture?  The last thing God wants to do is send people to hell - the apostle Peter tells us that God "is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." People will only wind up in hell because they have rejected God's gracious offer of Jesus as their Saviour and Lord.
For next post click on: http://godspostbox.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/beechwood-growing-learning-together.html

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