OKAY...WHAT ABOUT CAVEMEN?

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G'day .......,

Okay, the next topic you asked about was cavemen.
People have always lived in caves and still do. Why not use a ready made home? You can keep it basic with just a fire and some animal skins to wear or you can do it in style like in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
The Bible tells us that 4 generations after the Great Flood, God scattered people from Babel into the nations of the world by confusing their language. If you suddenly found yourself in strange country during the Ice Age with wild animals around, where would you head? A cave of course.
Archaeologists have found that the Neanderthal Man lived just like we would have on a camping trip, without the modern equipment, and here is....the original Mr. Neanderthal from Germany.

 

G'day ........,

Q. "Did Nicodemus understand it all because he believed in Jesus?"

Not really. The last thing recorded that Nicodemus said to Jesus was: "How can these things be?"...but let's give him time...

This first mention of Nicodemus is he's slinking off to talk to Jesus at night because people are starting to believe in Him after seeing His signs.
The next time Nicodemus is speaking up at the Council: "Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?" ...which Nicodemus had already done secretly.

A chat with God around the campfire

Finally he didn't care what anybody thought of him but helped Joseph from Arimathea to prepare the body of Jesus for burial in Joseph's brand-new tomb.
He proved by his actions that he believed in the Man who once said to him: "...so must the Son of Man be lifted up." (...on the cross!)
Great question! This was a momentous meeting where we learn why Jesus came here - to die - because God loves everybody and wants to see everybody saved - if only they'd believe that Jesus died for them.

 

 

Hi guys,

You were asking: "What did they feed Jesus before they killed him and how old was He?"
As far as we know - nothing!

No last meal request for this Man!

They were too busy dragging Jesus around the city during the night, accusing & mocking Him, slapping & punching Him, ripping off His beard, and finally flogging him, to worry about giving Him a feed. By the time they'd nailed Him up He was naked and unrecognisable - nothing like the pictures people draw. The real deal would be too awful for us to look at. His last meal was the Passover lamb with His friends, the night before.
By the way, all this was predicted in the old part of the Bible - hundreds of years before!
How old was He? A young man of 33 and 1/2, just as predicted of course.
God must love us heaps hey?

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GOD IS LIGHT...BUT OUTSIDE TIME??

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Hi ......., Your question was: "If God is the light and can go outside of time, at the same time - who is the light?  How does He go outside of time?"

Oh!...a hard one hey?
Let's go back to the beginning of the Bible where we read about God telling us what happened when He created everything.
It starts: "In the beginning God created...." 
Beginning of what? Time!
After creating the heavens and the earth (space and matter) God turned on the light:
"Let there be light; and there was light."....on the first day, 3 days before God made the sun!

Now that God has created light (we are told He is light anyway) there are days - or time - and there have been days ever since, in fact this is where we get 7 days in our week.
Even astronauts sort of go outside time in space because they don't see normal days of sunlight. They count their orbits around Earth while we count days using sunlight on Earth.

 

G'day .........,

You were asking: "Would God send someone to help other life forms?"
Surprisingly, all animals were originally herbivorous - they only ate plants, seeds, fruit etc. No animals ate each other and people were not permitted by God to eat the meat from animals. This good scene was all ruined when Man disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden.
God hated seeing all the violence but waited 1656 years before flooding the Earth, when unfortunately many animals died but at least all kinds were preserved in the ark with Noah and his family.
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ will return to judge the Earth and rule as King of kings and Lord of lords, then there will be total peace on Earth for 1000 years:

"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox.....they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord."
Yes, God will send Someone to help other life forms.

Hi .......,

Q. "If God created the world for good, why are bad things happening?"
God did create the world for good, in fact He said it was 'very good'. He even planted a garden for man to tend and enjoy - 'Bon Appetit!' There was only one rule in the whole world but people liked hearing the serpent's suggestion:
"You will be like God..."
Okay there are lots of bad things happening, unbelievably sickening stuff, but the TV news is just giving us a taste of what's in store for a world that has not only nailed Jesus on the cross but proudly thinks that science has proved God doesn't even exist. Thank God, He is holding back the forces of evil because He wants everyone to be saved, while pride stops them.
I don't know about you, but there is still plenty of pride and badness in my heart. 

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OK...WHAT ABOUT DINOSAURS?

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G'day J.....,

Whoa!....all your questions in one hit!

Let's start with dinosaurs this week and visit the other topics later, hopefully at least one per week.

The name dinosaur for 'terrible lizards'wasn't thought of until 1841, by British palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen.
 

Okay we have been led to believe dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago but scientists now have a big problem explaining how blood vessels still elastic, and blood components like haemoglobin, and even skin have been discovered all remarkably preserved.

What's more...there is plenty of evidence around the world of images and stories of people in history engaging with animals like dinosaurs that they called dragons. There is even a sauropod like a brachiosaurus and a sea-dragon called 'leviathan' in the Bible! God tells Job to take a look at them.

So how did they die out?

There is no question there was an Ice Age which would have been hard on dinosaurs plus the Bible tells us of a big-game hunter called Nimrod, only 2 generations after the Great Flood. Also it seems there was much less vegetation and possibly the oxygen levels were lower - impacting badly on dinosaurs.

I hope that gives you something to research. I have found that the Bible has a lot more science in it than people think.

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A ROMAN CENTURION BEGGING A JEW ??

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

So you want to know something about Jesus and the Roman soldiers.

Okay, the Roman Empire controlled Judaea and its soldiers were brutal but that is the way Rome maintained peace. Of course the Jews had been warned by God through people like Daniel that this would happen. How about that!

Jesus was born a Jew but a centurion (over 100 soldiers) came and told Him that his servant was paralyzed. Even though Jesus offered to come and heal the man, he said: "Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. Just speak a word and my servant will be healed. I also am a man under authority..."

What the....?!! Just a word?? This is a Roman centurion saying his house is not good enough for this young Jewish carpenter come teacher that he calls 'Lord'?!!

Jesus was surprised and said: "For sure, I have never seen such great faith - not even in Israel!"

Do you think the centurion realised who Jesus really was and knew for sure that He could heal instantly?

Hi girls,
You were asking: "Can God make a dead stick alive again?"
Of course! Nothing is impossible with God - otherwise how could He raise people from the dead?"  What an interesting question though!
Here are 2 things that really happened...

Some men asked Elisha the prophet to help them build a new village but one of them lost an axe-head in the river. Elisha threw in a stick that made the axe-head float so the man could rescue it. That was one lively stick, hey!

...and here's another one:

Could you do this with 2 sticks?.....God told the prophet Ezekiel to write on 2 sticks then hold them together. They joined together in Ezekiel's hand to show that one day God will bring all Israel back together again!
After ~2,600 years it hasn't happened yet - so watch carefully girls.

 

 

 

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WHY ALL THE BAD IF GOD IS GOOD?

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Hi L.....,

You were asking: "How come there is bad in the world if God uses His powers for good?"
Oh my, you have asked a hard one!
Okay, we look around us and see a lot of bad in the world but are you completely 100% good?
Jesus tells us: "...no-one is good but One, that is God." (Jesus is God in a human body - God's Son)
If God got rid of ALL of the bad in the world who would be left? Not me!
Do our parents punish us for everything wrong we do?
No, and the more they forgive us, the more we love and appreciate them.
The Bible tells us: "It's the goodness of God that leads you to repentance."
One day soon God will deal with all the world's badness - in His own time. Meanwhile we realize that Jesus has paid the penalty and God has forgiven us, so we appreciate how good God is. 

 

G'day J.....,

The more I look at your question the more I'm blown away...
"If Jesus is the human form of God, shouldn't there be a portal from heaven to Earth?"
I even had to check the dictionary for the meaning of 'portal'!
Yes,...Jesus IS the portal between heaven and Earth. In fact He even said: "I am the door...if anyone enters by Me, he will be saved....I am the Good Shepherd" ...and used the illustration of a shepherd camping in the doorway of a sheepfold to protect his sheep.
Later on He said: "No-one comes to the Father except through Me."... just before He was arrested.
Absolutely fantastic! 

 

G'day C......,

You asked: "When did Daniel die?"
The Book of Daniel in the Bible doesn't tell us much about Daniel himself but it covers the 70 years of captivity in Babylon from 606 BC to 536 BC (just as God predicted) so if young Daniel the Jewish prince was about 20 when he was taken captive, he was about 90 when he died in about 535 BC. (2550 years ago)
The point is...even though the Jews were held captive, God was always in control and He had His man in the halls of government in Babylon all that time!

So what's the moral of the story?

Man might think he is boss but the one true God is really the Boss - we must obey Him and we can trust Him, no matter what!

Much of what God's angel told Daniel to write about has already happened years ago but some of it....is yet to happen! He even wrote about an explosion of knowledge (science? internet?) and people rushing around (modern travel?) in the last days.

How about that! 

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