I have heard many make the statement, “I believe in God.” I have also been told by many, "We believe in the same god." As nice of a view as this may seem it is far from the truth. You may believe in a god but is he the same God I believe in?
Let me present a short list of questions for you to consider regarding your god and so to determine if we believe in the same GOD.
- Did your God create this world?
- Did your God create and breathe life into man?
- Does your God condemn evil?
- Did your God judge by flood?
- Did your God deliver man from that flood?
- Did your God create languages?
- Did your God create a nation?
- Does your God do miracles?
- Did your God create moral law?
- Did your God lead the Jews in the wilderness?
- Did your God speak through prophets?
- Did your God return a people to their land?
- Did your God promise a savior centuries before he came?
- Did your God send his son?
- Did your God’s son come as a child born of a virgin?
- Did your God sacrifice his son for your sin?
- Did your God raise his son from the dead?
- Did your God save man by grace alone?
- Did your God make men new creations through faith?
- Did your God create the church?
- Did your God fill you with his spirit?
- Did your God promise a new earth and a new heaven?
- Did your God tell you He loves you?
- And did your God inspire 40 different men to write 66 different books over a 1800 year span to reveal himself to you?
To make the claim, "I believe in God," actually tells me nothing. To make a general statement "We believe in the same God" cannot be true if your god did not do all that I listed above and more.
Now please understand that these questions are not presented to prove that my God is real, but to merely give a clear perspective of who my God is so that you may conclude whether we believe in the same God.
Blessings
pastor Bob