Comments on: Psalm 13

By: Nat Napoletano

Nat Napoletano — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:37:20 +0000

And this just brings up another issue. The very next line, John 6:46 says:

46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

This is not true according to Genesis 32. Jacob wrestles with God and sees God “face-to-face”. Jacob was surprised to survive and named the spot Peniel (Face of God).

It’s things like these that make me wonder what God wants us to think and believe or if he really didn’t have a hand in the Bible at all.

By: Nat Napoletano

Nat Napoletano — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:23:37 +0000

Hi Reto, I’m pleased to meet you.

Gentlemen, the idea that “faith is not up to us” is not at all what I get out of the the Gospels or Paul for that matter.
Jesus is constantly rebuking his disciples and others for not exhibiting enough faith. If faith were not a volitional act, but instead depended on God’s actions then the 50+ times that Jesus criticizes his followers makes about as much sense as Jesus criticizing a blind man for being blind.

You quoted John 6:44 but in the very next verse the author goes on to say that listening and learning from the Father is all that is required.

44″No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

And John 6 is typical of the rest of the Gospels. Just read from John 6:28:

28Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

It sure sounds like it’s up to us to believe.

By: Reto

Reto — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:45:34 +0000

You don’t believe. It’s that simple. Face the reality my friend. Admit it. I believe that you are going to get your faith back one day. But it’s not up to you.
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. ”
May God bless you.

By: Mark Lefers

Mark Lefers — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:33:48 +0000

Reto,
I have to answer with, “I don’t know”. That is what I doubt about. I can’t answer Yes or No. I used to answer yes, but now I just don’t know.

By: Reto

Reto — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:33:03 +0000

I would like to ask you a simple question, Mark.
Please answer with Yes or No.

Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the Christ, the Messiah, the living bread that came down from heaven, the way, the truth and the life, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world?

By: Mark Lefers

Mark Lefers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:37:32 +0000

As the saying goes, “From your lips to God’s ears.” Thanks for those encouraging words.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:28:40 +0000

Ephesians 1:16-19

I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.