Ascetic X
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Your automatic, knee jerk reaction may be to shout NO!
But think about it.
I think this topic is similar to how most preachers keep repeating. “Jesus spoke about hell more than He spoke about heaven”.
Once a popular pastor makes some riveting remark, all the other Christian leaders pick up on it and echo it, without checking it out.
According to Strong’s Concordance, there are 104 references to heaven associated with Jesus, but only 28 references to hell.
Back to how Jesus operated His divine power, while abandoning many of His celestial privileges, to identify with ordinary humans.
Jesus used His divine power for His own benefit when He walked on water, told Nathanael that He saw him under a fig tree, entered a locked room without opening the door, calmed the storm, vanished when done talking with two disciples He met on the road to Emmaus, passed through the midst of the mob that wanted to throw Him down a cliff.
There are also other times when Jesus mysteriously evaded enemies.
In John 8:59, after claiming, "Before Abraham was born, I am," the Pharisees picked up stones to kill him for blasphemy, but Jesus hid himself and left the temple.
But think about it.
I think this topic is similar to how most preachers keep repeating. “Jesus spoke about hell more than He spoke about heaven”.
Once a popular pastor makes some riveting remark, all the other Christian leaders pick up on it and echo it, without checking it out.
According to Strong’s Concordance, there are 104 references to heaven associated with Jesus, but only 28 references to hell.
Back to how Jesus operated His divine power, while abandoning many of His celestial privileges, to identify with ordinary humans.
Jesus used His divine power for His own benefit when He walked on water, told Nathanael that He saw him under a fig tree, entered a locked room without opening the door, calmed the storm, vanished when done talking with two disciples He met on the road to Emmaus, passed through the midst of the mob that wanted to throw Him down a cliff.
There are also other times when Jesus mysteriously evaded enemies.
In John 8:59, after claiming, "Before Abraham was born, I am," the Pharisees picked up stones to kill him for blasphemy, but Jesus hid himself and left the temple.
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