AboutJohn of AllFaith (Pastor John) Expertise I will be happy to discuss all aspects of Christianity, biblical doctrine, prophecies, etc. The Bible offers a wealth of information to us! So if you are wondering what the Bible has to say about any topic drop me a note.
I have experience with several different denominations. If you wish to know what a specific group teaches be sure and specify that. If you want my personal views specify that as well as my take on some of these things is a bit different. Most questions will be answered from a basic Baptist perspective unless you specify differently.
Also visit a few of my questions and answers at my Questions Answered site
A Statement to Students about Plagiarism any why I answer questions:
Plagiarism is a crime.
Plagiarism can end careers, lead to expulsion from school, the loss of financial aid, and can even result in fines and imprisonment in some cases. Its not worth it!
Despite this a small percentage of those who ask questions at AllExperts, Yahoo Answers etc. copy and paste our answers as their own, often without giving credit. This is plagiarism. Its not worth it!
We all know that one can google a homework question and in many cases find an easy response, but so can your teachers! Many teachers are aware that some students do this and catch their cheating students.
To read more about this go to the following link. Its a conversation between one such teacher from a respectable institution of learning and me: where she writes: ...I have had over 20 students copy your work in the past 3 months...
Understand that if you plagiarize you are cheating your instructors, your answerer, your fellow students, everyone who respects you... and ultimately yourself. Its just not worth it!
Please use our answers to help in your research, not to replace it.
Learn, don't cheat.
Experience I have a lot of ministry experience in this area and would be happy to help people rightly divide the Word of Truth. I am also a good resource on the Bible and Homosexuality: God loves us all!
Education/Credentials Three Christian ordinations (Baptist, Calvary Chapel and from an independent Church I co-founded)
MA Religious Studies
Others
Question How can you justify the Father in sending His Son to the cross as an expression of love? Can sending a loved one to a cruel death be motivated by love?
Answer Hi Oscar,
Christians believe in a doctrine known as Original Sin. This sin has separated humanity from God since the time of Adam's original sin of rebellion against God.
God revealed that the only acceptable cure for Original Sin would be the sacrificing of His own Son (first mentioned at Genesis 3:15) when He ordered Abraham to offer Isaac in the Book of Genesis. As Abraham prepared to obey God's command and sacrifice his only son, Jesus' distant ancestor, an angel stayed his hand.
When the Law was given through Moses the Jews were commanded to make various animal sacrifices as atonements for their sins (and the world's). This also was a pre-example of Jesus' then-future sacrifice. Shortly after Jesus' sacrifice was made the Jews lost their Holy Temple at Jerusalem and these animal sacrifices were no longer possible as prescribed in the Lew and so they ceased. THE sacrifice had been made.
Jesus willingly offered himself up as the sacrifice for the sins of the world.
No loving parent can imagine making such a sacrifice but what is clear is that knowing that such an extreme sacrifice would save the world, performing it would a sign of unimaginable love for those it saved.
WHY this sacrifice was necessary, WHY God required it as the only means to restore humanity to fellowship with Him remains an unanswered and unanswerable question (on this side of Heaven). Its a matter of divinely revealed faith.
What is certain is that:
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
