Four "Why" questions

[Alla27]

So, according to the Bible:
1)who am I?
2)why am I here?
3)where am I coming from?
4)where am I going after this life?

 

[ViaCrucis]

So, according to the Bible:
1)who am I?
2)why am I here?
3)where am I coming from?
4)where am I going after this life?

1) The Bible doesn't mention you.
2) The Bible doesn't say why you, personally, are here.
3) The Bible doesn't answer this either.
4) The Bible says very little about what happens between death and resurrection.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Winken]

So, according to the Bible:
1)who am I?
2)why am I here?
3)where am I coming from?
4)where am I going after this life?

1. A human being.
2. God's purpose.
3. Adam-Eve.
4. Have you experienced God's Spiritual rebirth? If so, then Heaven.

 

[Alla27]

1) The Bible doesn't mention you.

So, according to you the Bible doesn't have an answer to this important for me question.

2) The Bible doesn't say why you, personally, are here.

So, according to you the Bible doesn't have an answer to this important for me question.

3) The Bible doesn't answer this either.
4) The Bible says very little about what happens between death and resurrection.
-CryptoLutheran

thanks for answers.

 

[Alla27]

1. A human being.

please, a quote from the Bible

2. God's purpose.

please, quote from the Bible. what is this purpose according to the Bible?

3. Adam-Eve.

please, quote from the Bible

4. Have you experienced God's Spiritual rebirth? If so, then Heaven.

please, quote from the Bible.

P.S. I would really like to have quotes from the Bible as answers to my four "why" questions.
Thanks for answers, BTW.

 

[(° ͡ ͜ ͡ʖ ͡ °) (ᵔᴥᵔʋ)]

So, according to the Bible:
1)who am I?
2)why am I here?
3)where am I coming from?
4)where am I going after this life?

According to 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” There are two Greek words which are translated “new” in the Bible. The first, neos, refers to something that has just been made, but there are already many others in existence just like it. The word translated “new” in this verse is the word kainos, which means “something just made which is unlike anything else in existence.” In Christ, we are made an entirely new creation, just as God created the heavens and the earth originally—He made them out of nothing, and so He does with us. He does not merely clean up our old selves; He makes an entirely new self. When we are in Christ, we are “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4 KJV). God Himself, in the person of His Holy Spirit, takes up residence in our hearts. We are in Christ and He is in us.

In Christ, we are regenerated, renewed, and born again, and this new creation is spiritually minded, whereas the old nature is carnally minded. The new nature fellowships with God, obeys His will, and is devoted to His service. These are actions the old nature is incapable of doing or even desiring to do. The old nature is dead to the things of the spirit and cannot revive itself. It is “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) and can only be made alive by a supernatural awakening, which happens when we come to Christ and are indwelt by Him. Christ gives us a completely new and holy nature and an incorruptible life. Our old life, previously dead to God because of sin, is buried, and we are raised “to walk in newness of life” with Him (Romans 6:4).

If we belong to Christ, we are united to Him and no longer slaves to sin (Romans 6:5-6); we are made alive with Him (Ephesians 2:5); we are conformed to His image (Romans 8:29); we are free from condemnation and walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:1); and we are part of the body of Christ with other believers (Romans 12:5). The believer now possesses a new heart (Ezekiel 11:19) and has been blessed “with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 1:3).

We might wonder why we so often do not live in the manner described, even though we have given our lives to Christ and are sure of our salvation. This is because our new natures are residing in our old fleshly bodies, and these two are at war with one another. The old nature is dead, but the new nature still has to battle the old “tent” in which it dwells. Evil and sin are still present, but the believer now sees them in a new perspective and they no longer control him as they once did. In Christ, we can now choose to resist sin, whereas the old nature could not. Now we have the choice to either feed the new nature through the Word, prayer, and obedience, or to feed the flesh by neglecting those things.

When we are in Christ, “we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (Romans 8:37) and can rejoice in our Savior, who makes all things possible (Philippians 4:13). In Christ we are loved, forgiven, and secure. In Christ we are adopted, justified, redeemed, reconciled, and chosen. In Christ we are victorious, filled with joy and peace, and granted true meaning in life. What a wonderful Savior is Christ!

 

[ViaCrucis]

double post

 

[ViaCrucis]

So, according to you the Bible doesn't have an answer to this important for me question.

The Bible isn't an all-comprehensive answer book to life's big questions. The various books which make up the Bible weren't written to us, they were written for a number of purposes and addressed to specific people within certain times and circumstances.

Who you are, you the individual, isn't answered in the Bible. Now we can, for example, read things such as that we are all human beings and part of the same human family, that all of us are sinners, etc these sorts of things are addressed in Scripture.

So, according to you the Bible doesn't have an answer to this important for me question.

It's not the Bible's purpose to answer all of our mystery of life existential questions. The Bible's purpose is to be those writings received and accepted within the Church catholic pointing us to Christ and guiding us in our faith and praxis as Christ's holy catholic Church.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Alla27]

The Bible isn't an all-comprehensive answer book to life's big questions. The various books which make up the Bible weren't written to us, they were written for a number of purposes and addressed to specific people within certain times and circumstances.

Who you are, you the individual, isn't answered in the Bible. Now we can, for example, read things such as that we are all human beings and part of the same human family, that all of us are sinners, etc these sorts of things are addressed in Scripture.



It's not the Bible's purpose to answer all of our mystery of life existential questions. The Bible's purpose is to be those writings received and accepted within the Church catholic pointing us to Christ and guiding us in our faith and praxis as Christ's holy catholic Church.

-CryptoLutheran

would you agree that all humans are children of God Heavenly Father?

 

[ViaCrucis]

would you agree that all humans are children of God Heavenly Father?

One is only a child of the Father through adoption in Christ. As Christ is the eternally begotten Son of the Father, we share in His Sonship by grace.

We could speak of all people being children of God in the sense that we are God's creation. But that's not how the New Testament speaks of the Fatherhood of God, the Fatherhood of God in the New Testament is that He is the Father of Christ His only-begotten Son; that is He is called Father because He is Christ's Father and it is only in Christ that we come to know Him as our Father by the grace of adoption.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Nihilist Virus]

How is this an argument for or against Christianity?

 

[Alla27]

How is this an argument for or against Christianity?

Mainstream Christians teach that humans are not children of God. But is this what God of the Bible say?
Mainstream Christians teach that you or me didn't exist before we were born on this earth. But is this what God of the Bible say?
I also want to know why God created us according to mainstream Christians

 

[Alla27]

Question to ViaCrucis:

Am I spirit? or am I just piece of meat with bones and blood?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Question to ViaCrucis:

Am I spirit? or am I just piece of meat with bones and blood?

You're not a spirit, no. You're a human being, created bones, blood, skin, tissue etc. The idea that people are "ghosts in the machine" is a Platonic, and later Gnostic, idea. Christianity, historically, teaches that we are creatures of both body and soul. The soul being not the "real me" inhabiting a body, the soul is the animating principle of the body, the seat of the will and the emotions.

You are not an embodied soul, you are an ensouled body.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Sojourner1]

Mainstream Christians teach that humans are not children of God. But is this what God of the Bible say?

1 John 3:10
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

John 1:10-13
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Mainstream Christians teach that you or me didn't exist before we were born on this earth. But is this what God of the Bible say?

1 Corinthians 15:46-47
What is spiritual did not come first. What is earthly came first. What is spiritual came after that. The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven.

I also want to know why God created us according to mainstream Christians

Colossians 1:16
All things were created by him. He created everything in heaven and on earth. He created everything that can be seen and everything that can’t be seen. He created kings, powers, rulers and authorities. Everything was created by him and for him.

Ephesians 2:10
We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful. He has chosen you to share life with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

[bling]

One is only a child of the Father through adoption in Christ. As Christ is the eternally begotten Son of the Father, we share in His Sonship by grace.

We could speak of all people being children of God in the sense that we are God's creation. But that's not how the New Testament speaks of the Fatherhood of God, the Fatherhood of God in the New Testament is that He is the Father of Christ His only-begotten Son; that is He is called Father because He is Christ's Father and it is only in Christ that we come to know Him as our Father by the grace of adoption.

-CryptoLutheran

Are children before their sinning: "Children of God"?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Are children before their sinning: "Children of God"?

Is a child before they commit their first personal sin a child of God? If they have received Holy Baptism then of course they are, they have been born again. Of the non-baptized? Only in the sense that mankind generally can be said to be "God's children" because they are God's creation. But again that isn't how the New Testament generally talks about the fatherhood of God. God's Fatherhood is, in the New Testament, found exclusively in Christ through which we are--in Him--made heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. That is, by our adoption by grace we have the Father of Christ as our Father. He is Christ's Father first and foremost because our Lord is the eternal Son, being begotten before all ages, God of God and Light of Light.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[bling]

So, according to the Bible:
1)who am I?

You are a created being, like Adam and Eve were created beings. There is nothing to suggest a before birth existence and plenty of problems with the idea of an eternal existence like God or Christ, which takes a lengthy explanation.

2)why am I here?

God does not do anything without the greatest of purposes, so your being here would have the greatest purpose, so what would be the very greatest “purpose” you could have?

God is the huge unique type of Love that would be totally unselfish, so God did not make you for His “sake”, but for the sake of others that might include you.

God’s Love would compel God to make beings He could shower with the greatest of gifts to be like Himself (Loving/unselfish), but that also means the being would have to accept those gifts as they are given (as pure charity), since it would be wrong for God to force them on anyone.

You’re here to possible humbly accept God’s charity as pure charity (especially the gift of Love) so you can become like God Himself in that you are totally unselfish. The problem is most people for good logical reasons do not want to be humble.

3)where am I coming from?

Again, you are a created being.

4)where am I going after this life?

That is up to you, because included with all the wonderful gifts from God is eternal life if you humbly accept those gifts as pure charity.

 

[bling]

Is a child before they commit their first personal sin a child of God? If they have received Holy Baptism then of course they are, they have been born again. Of the non-baptized? Only in the sense that mankind generally can be said to be "God's children" because they are God's creation. But again that isn't how the New Testament generally talks about the fatherhood of God. God's Fatherhood is, in the New Testament, found exclusively in Christ through which we are--in Him--made heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. That is, by our adoption by grace we have the Father of Christ as our Father. He is Christ's Father first and foremost because our Lord is the eternal Son, being begotten before all ages, God of God and Light of Light.

-CryptoLutheran

I know there is really little in scripture about those that are not mature enough to respond to the message, but are you saying all unbaptized and even unborn children that die are hell bound?

 

[(° ͡ ͜ ͡ʖ ͡ °) (ᵔᴥᵔʋ)]

I know there is really little in scripture about those that are not mature enough to respond to the message, but are you saying all unbaptized and even unborn children that die are hell bound?

What kind of baptism are we talking about? By the physical water baptism or the baptism of fire by the Holy Spirit?