@sciencefunn Isaiah 42:5
"This is what God the Lord says—the Creator of the heavens, who stretched them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it..."
Perfection is infinite. Jesus could have been tempted endlessly and He would always choose to glorify the Father with His actions and speech. May we tirelessly dedicate our lives to strive for the same.
There are four Gospels.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke share so much material that scholars call them the "Synoptics" — seen together.
Then there is John.
John omits 90% of what the other three include.
John includes 90% that none of them have.
It was written last, and it reads like someone who has spent 60 years thinking about what the others didn't say.
A thread on why the Gospel of John is unlike anything else in Scripture. 🧵
The glory of life is not for us; the glory ought to be all His. The only true everlasting joy comes from being saved. Everything else is fleeting and fickle.
Matthew 16: 24-27 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every person according to his deeds.
1 John 5: 13-15 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
@ErinPerise Matthew 28:1, 9 NASB2020
[1] ... Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb... [9] And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Rejoice!” And they came up and took hold of His feet, and worshiped Him.
@rev_cap All the spend the UAE did and they didn't start a canal? Seems obvious this war was going to happen at some point (no one expected it so soon)
@growing_daniel@xactotum To my understanding, God knows our hearts -- these things are not, inherently by themselves, bad practices... It is all about the true intentions of the heart. The way you wrote this made me feel some type of way about telling my neighbor how good God is.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
JEREMIAH 17:7–8
@justalexoki It is the theological foundation of creation, original sin, and God's grace towards the faithful. I would argue the OT laws established civilization - a natural prerequisite for the Pharisees to deny Jesus and the Romans to crucify Him.