We live in perilous times. The bible has never had more readers....yet with the explosion of bible sales...there has not been a corresponding explosion of faith in God. In fact, the trend is quite the other way. With more bibles has come less faith. What has taken root and increased instead is a religious belief system that contains the biblical narrative and keeps it within reach of the unspiritual (carnal) man. In short faith has degenerated into a human belief about God.
Jesus said...o you of little faith! That means that faith can be little or great or somewhere in between. But if Jesus said that even a tiny amount of faith can move a mountain....that shows that the effect on a living faith in the world is miraculous.
How is Christianity different from other religions? Other religions keep you in the realm of the flesh...to do things in the power of the flesh. The limit is the flesh. But Christianity is based on faith in an all-powerful God....a living God. So then there is NO LIMIT to the one who has faith.
Paul said "I can do ALL things through Christ" who becomes our strength. With Christ ALL things are possible. So then there is no limit in the Christian faith.
However, today, Christianity has been reduced to a religion like any other...with all the carnal limitations...so much so that any reference to living faith being limitless and miraculous draws the ire of the religiously indoctrinated ones...
Jesus said...o you of little faith! That means that faith can be little or great or somewhere in between. But if Jesus said that even a tiny amount of faith can move a mountain....that shows that the effect on a living faith in the world is miraculous.
How is Christianity different from other religions? Other religions keep you in the realm of the flesh...to do things in the power of the flesh. The limit is the flesh. But Christianity is based on faith in an all-powerful God....a living God. So then there is NO LIMIT to the one who has faith.
Paul said "I can do ALL things through Christ" who becomes our strength. With Christ ALL things are possible. So then there is no limit in the Christian faith.
However, today, Christianity has been reduced to a religion like any other...with all the carnal limitations...so much so that any reference to living faith being limitless and miraculous draws the ire of the religiously indoctrinated ones...