Is God Ignoring Me? Making Sense of God's Silence - Dr. Gary Habermas
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Part 4 of a 4 part series on why people doubt God: 2012 Apologia Conference at Shoreline Community Church, Santa Barbara, CA.
Part 1 - Dealing with Factual Doubt
Part 2 - Dealing with Emotional Doubt
Part 3 - Tugging at Our Hearts: The Biblical Imagery of Heaven
Part 4 - Is God Ignoring Me? Making Sense of God's Silence
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Sometimes I feel like God is ignoring me even though I know he’s there. But I must say God has been there for me through good and bad. Thank you 🙏 my Lord Jesus.
I def feel like that at times too. I think we all do.
God is not our servant, we are his. We should do what he asks of us, and in his grace at times when we make a heartfelt request of him he grants it to us.
Be sober. Listen. Observe. Enjoy pray.exercise. Love. Mental health. Reading the bible make love. Trust. Hope. Endure. Wait. Think. Common sense. Learn. Helo someone. Wash. Do dishes.Be patient. Say thank you. Please. Excuse me. Sincere. Patient.. Gentle. We are capable of being good and so is evil. A choice. Free will. Doubt is hang in there. Faith is jump GOD will take care.
Nice post Ronnie
Thank you. I have a big problem with this. I have been struggling with this problem for a long time. Thanks again for the post. Many of us need this.
I can testify to the power of the Most High. I have asked the Father many times for healing for myself and others. I tell doctors about my condition, it's a genetic one, and have consistently got a very surprised look. He has worked miracles for many people that were prayed for. I think he has steered me to this video. Thank You and may God bless you
I would love to hear about it. I've read of many similar things happening.
We have to remember we live for eternity with God this world is temporary
You state that as fact without any supporting evidence?
@Chris Law
So what were they?
@Chris Law
The one that says the Earth is flat 6500 years old & the centre of the universe & that everything alive today came off a boat *4500* years ago piloted by a 600 year old drunkard? That bible? The one that tells us it's fine to keep slaves & persecute people born with an alternate sexual orientation?
@Chris Law
You don't believe a word of that & I can *100%* prove that!
@Chris Law
Who's & what "observances?" What future knowledge? I don't know what you are talking about?
I have prayed nearly every night that Jesus appear or speak to me, So far nothing has happened, yet I often read of atheists having Jesus appear to them. I don't understand this
maybe aithiests need it most? Im not sure, I am in the same situation.
Same
Remember what Jesus told Thomas after showing him his wounds post-Resurrection: “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Everything God decides is perfect. Even our stormy seas and His silence.
Keep praising Him as much as possible no matter what. He deserves it.
When it seems like God is silent or absent when things are rough, I try to think about people like Joseph. When Joseph was sitting in prison in Egypt it probably didn’t look or feel like God’s plan for him was right on track.
WOW... That's so good. To character of a believer. For me I usually picture Job's life.
God is not silent he talks all the time we just have to be the temple where he dwells
Praise the Lord. This is the first time I've tuned in. I really appreciate what I've heard today.
I just discovered you yesterday and now am a huge fan, (in the Lord).
I love to hear these stories, but I still have to be very careful because Scripture says that satan can appear as an Angel of light. Have Faith, in Jesus Christ and His Father & the Holy Spirit!
You nailed it, as Christians we should to be very careful what we allow ourselves to believe when it comes to secular sources of biblical accounts, I believe everything the Bible states, but with that being said, I don't have a full understanding of everything stated in the Bible, many people point to the Bible and say do you really believe a book that says the earth is flat, the problem is nowhere does the Bible say the earth is flat, it does however say the full circle of the earth, is the earth a flat plain as many people speculate, I have no way of knowing, I do know there's videos of phenomenon that is hard to explain if the world isn't flat, like ships that disappear beyond the horizon just to be brought back into frame on cameras with high power zoom lenses, or the city of Chicago being seen from across one of the great lakes, I know the Bible warns us that knowledge will increase and there will be great deception in the world when we near the return of Jesus, I also know NASA is one of if not the first agency to report that the Earth was a globe, here's the problem I have with NASA, the simple fact it was headed by Nazi scientists seeking to dominate the world, some point to pictures from NASA as proof that the earth is a globe, yet NASA to my knowledge has never shown a real picture, they show a computer generated image created by a digital artist, we most certainly have more knowledge available today than at any other point in history, but we also have more disinformation to sort through than any other point in history, my advice much like yours, we should be careful what we allow ourselves to believe even though we may see it with our eyes or hear it with our ears.
Amen. Especially in these days.
Satan can transform into an angel of light, not appear as an angel of light. 🙏
Trusting and loving God unconditionally, because God loves us unconditionally.
God is never silent. It is we who aren't silent enough.
We entice with meekness and gentleness and find that God is meeker still, almost shy.
"If you think that God is far away He is far away. If you think that God is near He is the nearest of the near, the dearest of the dear."
The trials I’ve been through were the times I experienced God the most, and there were answered prayers in certain trials, and other trials God didn’t answer my prayers the way I wanted, but I experienced God and my faith and love still grew more through those times of non answered prayer, but it’s about learning to love God as unconditionally as God loves us. I also remind myself that just because I don’t understand why God allows something I don’t like or understand, but I realize and believe that God knows better, has a bigger plan and knowing the character of God is loving and worthy to be trusted. It is awfully hard and painful going through many trials in our life, but they are opportunities of trusting God and experiencing God the most during the hardest times, which I think is because we surrender and seek God with more focused spiritually than other day to day times, when we are not as focused on seeking Gods presence. I have been reminded that when painful things happen, it is not Gods punishment, but rather Gods preparation for something to come.
Yes!
GOD IS A KING SPIRIT.
Until we fully understand that , many will suffer.
He answers when HE wants.
It can be in a day or 10 years.
FEAR GOD & WAIT FOR HIM AS long as it takes.
There is no plan B
This is so true, at least in my experience sometimes my prayer is answered fast and some other times not
After listening to the sessions I get the distinct impression that many in the audience in general are thinking that the opposite of faith is doubt. And that's not what I understand from the scriptures. I understand from the scriptures that the opposite of faith is offense. When Jesus was dealing with the Pharisees and interacting with them, they did not believe him, they took offense at him.
Thank you brother, I never thought of it this way. But it resonates with my personal experience of Jesus and what he's doing in my life. Everything that I though was immoral, pathetic and worthless before I met God turned out to be treasures that poor dead me could not appreciate. Including Jesus himself with his free and "ludicrous" offer of eternal life and unconditional love.
How to see GOD?
Open your eyes, read his WORD, enter HIS Rest.
How do you know your saved?
You have a overwhelming thirst for HIS WORD and the scriptures come to life.
You know I hadn't heard this talk before, but as in all things the LORD does HIS timing is perfect! Not just for myself, but hopefully for anyone else I'll share this with. Thank you Gary (I'm being so familiar with your first name, because I've listened to you and watched your talks for years now) for all of your dedication to bringing the truth of the REALITY OF THE SUPERNATURAL ASPECTS OF OUR LORD TO THE OF FOREFRONT OF PEOPLE'S MINDS AND, AT LEAST THE CONVERSATION.
MARANATHA ☝☺❤
I was surprised by hints of egocentrism from him. Some people don’t have a spouse or children but that doesn’t mean they can’t reel from grief over the loss of a parent, sibling or best friend. My mom passed away a few years ago and it left an indelible mark on me such that I am forever changed. There is simply no replacement for her. No second mom. Perhaps the woman to whom he referred was incredibly close to her Aunt. Just a tad surprised his heart is not more open to others’ experiences.
I agree
Mother Mary came and found me when I was completely lost. I thank her every day now for bringing me back to her son
Since discovering your video lectures I’ve watched every one where I find you. Thank you and God bless you.
same here
I haven’t listened to all of it (I’m actually only 5 minutes in) and I heard you say about how we think ‘Ugh, well, God let me down again’ or ‘Why is God ignoring me?’ And so on. But that isn’t personally my experience. Mine has always been ‘Why did I let God down again?’ ‘My sins are unforgivable’ ‘I’m a disgrace to God’ and so forth. I constantly think to myself ‘Because I did xyz God is talking to me.’
I don’t know why I felt like writing this but yeah.
Have you also listened to his talk on motional doubt? That is his second part of this four-part teaching.
Why is God silent and ignoring me? The same reason that unicorns and fairies are silent and ignoring me.
Just remember, the "god" in The Shack is not the God of the Bible. Who exactly do you want to hear from?
I believe GOD being the ultimate intellectual; doesn't make it easy and all the while knows we'll get over it because he's there anyway.
Sir really I love this message..it's very practical in daily life Christian life.
Lesson one was great. Two and three waffled a lot
-Only Christianity can explain the reality we are living, for example:
1- If God exists, why He doesn't speak to us face to face like we do? The only logical answer is original sin.
2- If God is life, why do we have to die? The only logical answer is original sin.
3- If God is perfect and His creation is good, why are we such a mess of human race? The only logical answer is original sin through our freewill.
Only original sin make sense and only Christianity believes it and expalins it perfectly.
Love creates and preserve, hates kills and destroy, and the only way to can claim a God of love is through Jesus Christ and the purpose of our existence.
1. The belief God exists disproves the existence of God.
2. Therefore, the Christian God does not exist.
We can play this game all you like, I assure you that of.
@@TheClassicWorld I believe you exist, therefore you don't exist. It's illogical sir.
My wife just died I need answers
My prayers are with you and your family.
Thank you
I am praying for the Lord of all creation to watch over you, to supply you with the answers you need, and to keep you STRONG in your faith in Him. I can't fathom what you are feeling. I will pray for you again before bed. God bless you John Prior.
Prayers to you and your family.
My 15 year old daughter died from cancer 5 years ago. God has not answered the "why." I continue in the faith though wounded. I trust God.... to whom else shall I go? You have the words of life. Faith will be tested and you will discover if it works and is real. It is and it does.
I think a lot of people in the comments missed the first 3 messages, about doubt. Or else they just refuse to hear it. Lots of bitterness or anger and revulsion for God.
There’s a point where you can’t figure out things like the universe and God intellectually. It’s just the nature of the universe and your relative size and importance and ability that these things can only have so much evidence and support from the sciences or philosophy.
Eventually you must use your faith ability, you have to choose God. If you won’t, that isn’t Gods fault. He is faithful to always give more chances, but you’ve got to be willing.
God cares about humans, He is good and kind, and it is extremely arrogant of us to think we know enough to decide if what God does or doesn’t do is moral. Where do you think your moral standard comes from?
You can’t say to a creator God that you know better than Him about what should have happened to you, He should done this or that etc. And you don’t know all the forces and things going on in the universe. Don’t be angry at God, He has never hurt you for any reason not ever wanted to, God is actually super nice.
It comes to this. God is real, the evidence is everywhere, believe or don’t it is your choice.
God manifest Himself as A human in the person of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, because mankind had chosen evil over good, in their hearts they have chosen sin and darkness over truth and God Going all the way back to Adam and Eve.
To remedy the sin problem, Jesus died to fulfill the legal requirements of the universe, punishment for Sin(intentional violation of what you know to be right) so that any who would choose God would have a path back to Him.
Thru Jesus, who is a manifest part of God commonly called The Son.
It’s free, but you must admit first that God is real and Jesus lives and died for you, you must admit that you have sinned against God and be willing to start turning from you sin and towards Jesus. I did it just recently, I’m not like some super spiritual dude. I’m a regular guy. But God actually cared about me specifically and He kept nagging me in my heart, He kept giving me little clues and generally just came after me spiritually.
If you read this far then you already believe this and are just fact checking me, or else you don’t and God is “knocking on the door to your heart” like He did for me, Because He actually gives a damn about you.
Don’t let bad Christians or worldly injustice keep you from opening up to God, He genuinely cares about you, and Jesus is the only path to meaningful existence. There are fake Christians and bad Christians but that doesn’t discount the truth of Jesus.
Many many people will choose hell over God. God didn’t send them there as punishment, but He is everything good in this universe, there is nothing good apart from Him.
We don’t know a lot about hell, but the basic presumption I have made is that spirits cannot be uncreated, or else God simply doesn’t destroy spirits because it is against His nature.
Regardless, scripture seems to indicate that whichever you choose heaven or hell, you will have some form of existence eternally. Don’t choose darkness friend, God is merciful, everlastingly so, there’s always Hope for salvation. But sadly millions will not choose God.
If you need more convincing then keep looking for answers, He will see that you get them.
But when the answers come, enough of them, you’ll know when, it’s time to jump. You have to choose to believe, just like you choose to believe anything else that you can’t see or touch.
Anyway maybe God will use this absurdly long comment on RUclips to help someone,
Jesus is King, and He is on His way back to this earth 🌍
Garrison Pledger
When you say God genuinely cares about you, what particular person are you directing your message to? The chosen of God were the Hebrew/Israelites. Therefore if you are not of this band of brothers then God is not concerned about any other group of people. And even less so if you are a slave.
God cares for all people, He created us after all.
In fact, God gave up His only begotten Son, so that thru Him all men might be saved.
Yes, God chose the Hebrews to be His chosen people,
But the intention was always to send His Son Jesus to save the whole world. And He did that thru the jews. That was what He chose them For.
People always say “Gods chosen people” as if that excludes everyone else, but they never mention what God chose them for.
Wayyy back by the early Hebrew prophets God foretold that He would one day send a savior, a messiah, later He told them it would be thru the line of king David.
There are something like 70 distinct prophecies of the messiah, many of them repeated multiple times by different prophets in different words. Over 400 prophecies about the messiah(many of them are repeats but 70 ish at least that are distinct).
All of those prophecies were fulfilled in the God man Jesus Christ. Even to the date of his resurrection foretold to the day by Daniel.
, God cares for all men and women. He created us, then He paid for us with The most precious thing He had, His own beloved Son. He owns us twice over.
People think this is rhetoric but it’s true, look into the historical nature of Jesus. His existence is the single most documented part of the ancient world.
The men who knew Him personally believed in Him so much that they were hunted, tortured, and killed for Christ’s sake, and still they would not recant their faith in Jesus as the Son and savior of mankind. Horrible deaths and tribulations and persecution from the romans and others, but they would not say a word against Jesus. They believed He was the messiah completely, and they knew Him personally.
If you believe in God, then you’re already halfway there. God has promised that all men who wish to know the truth and seek God, Will get answers.
The trouble is that most do not want a God. They want to be their own gods, they don’t want to have to face a judge of their sins. They love darkness and sin, and so will not turn to the light.
But if you genuinely want to know if God is real, if you’re willing to accept Jesus if He is real, if you will accept the truth whatever it is, then go and seek the answers diligently, and God will speak to your heart, and lead you to the answers you need.
God is not exactly like mankind, He does not always do things the way men would expect or wish Him to. But God is real. This whole universe didn’t just randomly pop into existence, and if you’re being honest with yourself you will admit that. In fact if your were honest you would admit that God has been tugging at your heart about Jesus since you first heard of Him, quietly but insistently.
God loves mankind, He made us in His own image, He even left off being God and became a man, for us. All of us. But you must choose Him. He does not coerce people, or force people or terrify people into following Him. You must choose Him.
No man can come to the Father God except he be born again, thru Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins.
If you will admit that you have done things that you knew in your heart to be wrong, and you believe that Jesus was Gods Son, and you ask Jesus to allow you to pledge yourself to Him as a vassal to a Lord, then you can ask to be forgiven and He will forgive. This is the good news. That the Christ has come to redeem mankind from their sins against a holy and perfect God.
God does care, but He has given the truth to the world and many have rejected Him, even many who call themselves Christian.
If you truly seek answers then open your heart and open a bible, God can and does speak to us thru our spirits, (our hearts, our innermost being). It is often called the witness in the Bible, and it is how humans commune with and hear from God.
It’s not a voice, but is very similar to when your conscience tells you not to do something, or you get a bad feeling in your gut about something you know you shouldn’t do. (I’m not describing it perfectly but that’s the best description I could think of)
It’s not like I’m saying oh ya me and God are best buddies and converse just like anybody else. I’m sure that your relationship with God can progress that far, but it requires training your heart to listen and your mind to be quiet.
If you wish to know the truth, then open a Bible and read, ask God to show you the answers, and then listen to what your heart says.
I promise you, the answer will be Jesus:) God thought you were valuable enough to die for, He seriously cares.
@@harrisonfletcher1254
When you say that God, in ancient times, promised to send a saviour you have to wonder why such a notion ever germinated in the mind of this deity? Do we not find that God had already stated that he is the one and only almighty god-that he alone is the saviour of his people. Therefore it is incongruous to say that God would send another in his place.
And where do we find that God gave up his only begotten son? Nowhere do we find God making such a statement. You further state that Daniel
even foretold the date of the the resurrection of Jesus. Now that would be something quite extraordinary to have knowledge of.
I would be most interested in receiving from you such information.
In anticipation.
I get that you’re just being a troll, but if you really want to know, there are many good teachers right here on RUclips.
You can simply type in “prophecies of Jesus” and get about 500 videos of different Christian Bible teachers.
The information is there, but you don’t want the truth.
You make many bold statements about a very big book. There are people who have studied these things their whole lives.
If you really want to know you can google it. I’m not gonna try to convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced.
Hope you get there bud:)
Yes I'm ignoring you. Because of your disobedience.
I’m 51 minutes out and it’s a great lecture, but you are really quoting NIV? NIV is known to delete important information, unlike kjv
KJV is an inaccurate translation. It was translated from latin which was translated from the original text. Find a version taken from the original Hebrew and Greek.
Esv has been said by language scholars to include the dead sea scrolls and be a good balance between accurately translating Hebrew and making understandable to English. Kjv though good had way less manuscripts to work with.
How can someone or something that doesn't exist ignore you. One day you lot will wake up to what a load of bullshit is being pedalled in your direction and that you're paying for financially..
All I can say is "God works in mysterious ways" so I do believe everything has a divine purpose This is a battle of God vs evil after all - Be blessed
To the naysayers who are here to mock, criticize and inflame others who've come to hear what this man has to say... by all means, continue to stand on your platform of personal infallibility and superiority. Conntinue on. However, has that been an incredibly fruitful experience for you, in any way?
I loved this, thank you, I nodded and smiled all the way through, what a blessing you and your family are to us x our Heavenly Father Lord God has always showered me with blessings through all manner of times, however I cannot understand why I continue to have times of such annoyance and anger in response to others despite my sobbing and beseeching in prayer, my heart and spirit are new and right but what am I doing wrong that I don't stop falling victim to my pride and anger x much love and God Bless from the UK xx
Wow! Thank you for sharing
People still believe in this in 2019...God indeed help America!
@Παναγιώτης ΜΧΣ
Because you should have *EVOLVED* away from discrrditrd Bronze age superstitions!
@Παναγιώτης ΜΧΣ
Are you saying that 2000 years ago wasn't the Bronze Age?
@Παναγιώτης ΜΧΣ
I'm big enough to apologize when I am wrong and I have been wrong here and I duly apologise.
@Delon Duvenage
Maybe through Islam but Christianity generally is on the decline?
@Delon Duvenage
Well I'm UK based & we have no problem with the government or official stats.
My personal experience backs all this up too, out of a friend group of 20 or 30 people none are religious!
I needed to listen to this. Thank you.
I mean, yes, Jesus said "Ask and it will be given you", but we forget how in James 4: 3, it says... " You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures." We often pray just so we can avoid the trials of life, even though it's these that shape and mature us I guess?
AFAIK, God's "silence" is not silence at all, or as we Humans know it to be. In truth God answers all prayers. What we Humans need to do is come to grips with God's answers as He communicates and on His timeline. I comment only because this condition of Silence seems to be the single greatest undoing of Faith and it doesn't have to be.
Perhaps as Westerners we're seeing Christianity through Western secular illusions of progress, which see us as perfecting life or creating a perfect world. Dr Habermas does a good job here of showing why that is not the Biblical perspective.
Prayer experiments are a bad example because the humanist says this is an example of our abilities which they then, in turn, lead us down a different ideological road.
Why does the individual feel God is not answering, because of their individual experiences with prayer
If I was God I would be busy managing gravity fields and exploding galaxies. Humans affairs would be a waste of my time.
Why would he be exploring galaxies if he supposedly created them?
Why? why? why?
Can anyone link to the prayer statistics/Medical Journal at 11:00 please?
@Julian Clarke are you the Black Hebrew Israelites group trolling my comment? Any stats or Medical Journals to contribute to this question or are you just copying and pasting prewritten literature?
"A handful of scientists have attempted to study the possibility that praying works through some supernatural factor. One of the most cited examples is a 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital. Byrd took 393 patients in the coronary-care unit and randomly assigned half to be prayed for by born-again Christians. To eliminate the placebo effect, the patients were not told of the experiment. Remarkably, Byrd found that the control group was five times as likely to need antibiotics and three times as likely to develop complications as those who were prayed for"
Only serious responses please
The Bible explains in Genesis that Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and to follow Satan's directions. That means they chose his rulership and rejected God's ,(for both themselves and all their descendants). Different rulers provide different benefits ,so God put them out of Eden and blocked access to what He had provided there ...my house, my rules! Gen3.
So who is the ruler of this world ? Matt4.8,9
And why did Jesus tell his disciples to pray for God's kingdom to come? Matt6.9to13
And who is the god that we should pray to? Ps83.18, John20.17,31
So....you can ask God but don't expect it to be given !
But Jesus said ask and ye shall receive.
Something tells me that the most probably answer will not be entertained.. he isn't there 😅
You cannot have a relationship with an unseen being that ‘ moves in mysterious ways ‘. The dialogue you create in your head is autodidactic; it’s something you learn yourself based on what you know about yourself and then extrapolate this to a third party or God. If you keep talking to this invisible being long enough, he will talk back to you ! What you are doing is making excuses to yourself when your requests or wishful thinking is not reciprocated. This is why you have churches like this one, to help you sustain your illusion. What was in your head is now out in the open and being shared. You are not deluded if other people say they experience the same problems. However, what happens privately in your individual heads, does behave like a delusion.
Why isn't Gary Habermas ever quoted by William Lane Craig?. Because he thinks Garies PhD is inferior to his in Truth and Quality. In my opinion they are both appologists and not interlectually honest. What's changed. Ravi Zacharias! he was at the pinical of this threesome.
I wonder if those promises of healing, etc, are particular to the disciples ministry, at that time?
No. People now make doctors their god and don't eat healthy or work hard or help others like Isaiah 58. People take the Bible and pick and choose Scripture according to what they like.
No. Not at all. Healing is for this very day.
Also Jesus walked away from the crowd that wanted to throw him off the Cliff. I know it’s not much but you forgot that one. That said, I get the suffering part, okay, but it does lead the human part of us to get to the point where we just give up asking. Here you have a Jesus who encourages us to ask, even beg, and then sends the disclaimers thru the followers later. Some disclaimers are in the other things he said, but most of Christianity has developed over the ages into excuses why most of this is not to be expected to work. So we create long talks about how not to gripe like in the psalms. Wears one out. It leads also to the current mind games of pretending for God. Good copy is our responsibility. I’m no longer asking for a smooth life, actually never have, but just going ahead and admit we kind of live in a world of crap shoot response. Guy on the ground by the pool waiting for an angel to stir the water. A ‘who knows’ religious life. Ethic of performance. Okay, not much different than a non-Christian existence. Other than live for later, not now. So much effort to figure out what I did wrong or if it’s for my good to grow. I appreciate your effort to answer, but in the end, I can bitch, but I’m not gonna change if he answers me. Maybe?
But you haven't listened and understood the true message in the scriptures. There is One Almighty Eternal God who had no beginning. The One and Only, Only Begotten Son of God came to make His Father's name known and Christianity refuses to know and understand the true identity of Almighty God essential to be blessed by the Son of God.
I did see the Son of God. I was spoken to on earth by a messenger who transmitted the Word of the Most High God about the fulfilment of prophesy. That messenger spoke to me and another person. When I took my mother to be spoken to that was when the Son of God spoke to me. Then the messenger came and spoke to my mum.
Oh but this did not happen over 2,000 yrs ago so that claim must be ignored by Christianity even though it is what all scripture reiterates.
Does anyone has the book titles for the books on miracles and also the answered prayers ?
One of the books was called Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
Thank you for sharing this
Ive been dying my whole 20s getting sabotaged and setup to fail everywhere i go. dying of serious illness. If gods real hes ap rick.
If you are asking why God is ignoring me then it stands to reason that you believe God is and to hear that a noted atheist has encountered an angel and so become a Christian is not helpful. The question being asked is why not me? This is not going to be answered by pointing to more evidence for God….
It also isn't going to be answered by religion....if your asking you need to ask someone that has encountered God and has some actual advice to give.
Looking for love( in all the wrong places) by Johnny Lee isn’t a song from the 60’s. It was released in 1980. That’s all I’ve got. I agree all of the other info in this video. Lol
Dr Habermas tell the guy you debating to make one it sure will bee easier now that you have one to go by it was done once so you should be able to it again. Unless it's super natural
I am not trying to poke at the message, but what do you do with your new wife when you are reunited with your "loved one", your first wife that died .... I can not wrap my head around that thought.
Matthew 22:30 - No one is married in Heaven.
“Jesus replied, ‘You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven’” (Matthew 22:29-30).
In earth, we have Male and female.
In heaven, we dont have physical body, but spiritual body like Angel's.
@@Monkofmagnesia Did you even watch the video ? I am commenting on what he said, this is not a scripture debate. SMH ...
@@KevinKilgorepage I was answering your question about what to do wth your new wife when you meet your departed "loved one" in Heaven. Since, according to Jesus, no one is married in Heaven but the humans that are there "become like angels," which is not to say they become angels, but they are very much like them. Their very nature is changed. As a result, the answer to your question is you, your new wife, your "loved one," having had their very nature changed, would not respond like a human woukld but more like an angel. So filled with love from God that it would be impossible to feel remorse, uncomfotable, jealous or anything negatve. You should not insult people for answering your question, nor should you ask questions if you are going to insult people who answer in ways you do not like.
@@Monkofmagnesia the question is/was for him, NOT YOU , NOT ME, AND i am NOT asking you what the Bible says, I have one, I KNOW what it says. Not asking the peanut gallery, I want GARY"S answer. It was NOT to MONKOF made up of AMNESIA ! Use your real name and REAL photo for REAL respect. STOP wasting my REAL TIME
Why don't all the church leader do as the prophet Elijah when he battled other prophets of baal, ...so we know whom to follow!
I don’t think anyone who has not experienced alcoholism the way I have.. they don’t know pain. 35 and I’m resigned to the fact I will most likely die alone. I’ve watched all this man’s videos and I must say not to be rude but I’m not impressed. However the way he has handled his wife’s death is admirable. He sure isn’t a John Lennox though.
I too struggle with alcoholism. We drink because we are in pain. I’ve suffered from chronic depression, anxiety, existential angst, fear of God, neuroticism, fatigue, ill health etc for most of my life and unfortunately alcohol is the only thing that can provide relief for me. I don’t know why God makes me endure this. I keep asking but I never get answers or anything at all. Well, I hope you get better my friend.
@@jonnyw82 we all have to carry our cross brother. I’d be a liar if I said this wasn’t nearing the ending point for me however.
If you want to know how to heal, why not ask people who at least claim to have a good track record? How about Curry Blake? He did that by researching the work of John G Lake who was a prolific faith healer early last century. Curry trains people to heal and has had some good success.
Remember Richard Wurmbrandt......
Do you have any video's on nde or any books ,I have so many questions
Go to NDERF.org. there are thousands of testimonies.
He’ll just dismiss the testimonies that are not “Christian”
Dark night of the soul, a path we must all endure in our walk with him. See St John Of the Crosses work. Written a long time ago.
What about the 80 some odd warnings about losing salvation?
Correct. Satan uses the ploy that you can't lose your salvation, so he can get you to accept sin and go away from Jesus and lose your salvation.
And how many times has this study on prayer been repeated?....so let's put all these Christian's in children's hospitals to pray .see what the results are.
If God is so intent on afflicting humanity, then isn't it better to just accept and know Christ to secure a place in heaven, ride life out while its good, then commit suicide when things take a turn for the worse to spare ourselves from the horrific suffering that God has in store for us?
P.S. I'm not an actual Pimp, nor do I support actual pimping, so don't get the wrong idea. I've just used this alias since I was young.
Gary Habermas's and Ravi Zacharias are very similar in at least one main way and in which they are or were experts,
Not Telling The Truth.
The sensible and rational explanation for Gods silence is, Gods do not exist.
Why are people so arrogant to want more than HE LETS YOU WAKE UP EVERY MORNING. Might HE be a little busy ? Go outside and look up! So next time you blame Him make sure you have some cheese to go with that wine.
He cherry-picks the prayer studies. The vast majority showed nothing and many show improvement with all kinds of Prayer.
How do you really know what he cites or not?
He did not cherry-pick the prayer studies.
The studies mentioned as well as others, are available for your own research.
God is not liar or a promise-breaker. He is not what you think. What G.H. says here is that most prayer experiments did not produce positive results. Some people think that their prayers have been answered and many think that they were not. The likely reason is that you cannot just get what you want with prayer. When he says God is all around us, what does he mean? So, what is God? We do not know, in the main. If you want to obtain advantages from a god, then I think you are thinking in the wrong way. i am not convinced by this person because he starts off by saying that God exists. But you cannot say that without some sort of evidence. So where is it? You cannot only quote the bible.
I am so glad I happened upon this. This is one of the most powerful (and practical!) messages I have ever heard. Thank you!
Yesica: That knowledge of what Mother Teresa went through after seeing Jesus on the train to Darjeeling is one thing that helps get me through day to day life. There are also times when His answer is so subtle that we cannot pick up on it. For example, perhaps He is watching out over our families if the car that sped out of control hit another vehicle that a family member was scheduled to be alongside of, but for that item they forgot at the last minute they had to return home to retrieve, or simply a strong desire to take an alternate route to work that day. Two of my family members accidentally fell out of two and three-story buildings about twenty years apart. Neither person received more than a heavy bruise and mild scratches. One of them wasn't hurt at all.
Thanks.
Wondering so why in the story with the praying for the 200 Cardiac patients in the hospital God answered almost all prayers, if at the and you say god almost never does miracles? So does he or does he not?
Not always.
Is god ignoring you? Your specific god I presume. You gotta prove your god even exists first to even ask that question.
The only Christians who find peace with God are the ones who don't think about hell and God's part in that at all. LOVE AND WORSHIP ME...OR ELSE isn't a very good motivation for cultivating true love. how is love true when it's being force to share a bed with fear ? I've never managed to get past this and is a major factor in why as a believer, years later i'm still on the out.
It's not worship me or else.
He is worthy of worship, all good comes from God. So anything outside of him is not good. He is not a tyrant and did not make us to be robots. If we choose to love him, he has gave us the way to be with him forever. If we choose to hate him, he won't make anyone live with him forever. But the absence of God for eternity is Hell.
God did not explain everything to Job .
This has likely been answered but I am having trouble finding those prayer studies, like the one from Kansas city with 2000 subjects?
If you come to Jesus doesn’t that make you a believer
John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
First John 5:14-15 “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
Mark 11:24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
The book states that if you are a believer your prayers will be answered. Can anyone confirm for me that all of the prayers asked by true believers are answered?
True... but he also said: “31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6...
And he also taught us to pray: “Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven”...
@@dinette76 Can anyone confirm for me that all of the prayers asked by true believers are answered?
@@foghornleghorn8536 In a way, one could answer this question with yes, because "true believers" would know not to ask of anything that is against God's will... Most of the verses you sight, have a condition within them, as to when prayers get answered.... "If you abide in me and my words abide in you"; "If we ask anything according to his will"; Jesus' clear statement in Matthew 6 not to ask for worldly things but ask for the Kingdom of God.... So if true believers are truly "true believers"... they would not ask anything against God's will in which case, yes, their prayers would be answered... because they would never ask God to fulfil their will but always leave it up to God to do what He thinks is best...
@@dinette76 John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
So when a true believer prays their prayer will be answered?
@@foghornleghorn8536 The verse you cite has two conditions for the rest of the sentence to be true. "If you abide in me" AND "If My words abide in you" - what do you think each one of these conditions mean?
Folk suffering from Bipolar hear voices laterally so be careful of your explanation.
i have learned not to ask God for anything.
@Lee Higginbotham Yes.
HAS THIS GUY EVER DEBATED ANYONE LIKE SAM HARRIS, ETC ! HE SURE IS MAKING A LOT OF SUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS !
John Linden he doesn’t have to debate anyone.
If God exists and ignores you, it is probably because you are not one of the chosen and you may be screwed for eternity after you die. . If God doesn't exist, you will be fine. Go figure.
Please don't tell stories of medical miracles w/out giving people information on where they can verify it. Either provide the name of the person or the name of the medical journal that it was published in. While I believe these miracles exist, not providing information about the documentation just enforces non-believer's beliefs that miracles don't actually exist.
If god is all merciful n loving..why do people end their lives?...its simple logic as to why god ignors people
All you people buying into this tosh.... How's the weather in America?
Who's the athiest professor who saw the Angel?
www.godupdates.com/atheist-scientist-becomes-a-christian-after-a-visit-from-angels/
here is another professor who saw angels!
@@n00g75 Thanks. I've heard this from a couple of places. I'll check that out when I have time.
And beware of fake prophetic words people like to give you.
18:28
We're not alone ; mother Teresa asked the same thing and did so often.
what about amputee and lost teeth??!?!!
So Gods healing only happens occasionally,with prayer.
That makes no sense at all ..why do we even pray?
I guess I am wasting my time with God!!!
Mr. Habermas, this is a bold topic! I may have to do a video on it myself. I doubted so much that I became an Atheist. More comments to follow after I listen. :)
...An hour and twenty-four minutes later....
Maybe the sincere believers in the audience are sincerely wrong. There just isn’t a god listening to prayers.
Do you really believe that there is no God?
Hello Mr. Barker, I do not believe there is a god of any kind. I have read the Bible a few times as well as other holy books. It was actually reading the Bible that convinced me. If you don’t either that isn’t bad.
I actually have no doubt whatsoever there is a God. I wonder why you believe there isn't.
John Barker, that’s fine, sir. The beauty of life is that we all have choices and I hope your faith is fulfilling. I have not been presented with sufficient evidence of a god. Maybe some day somebody will offer many wonderful proofs. I am nearly fifty, I have traveled to several countries, I have seen people and animals needlessly suffer. I have met abused children and adults, I have friends that were sexually abused as children. If I were a god, such things would not be possible. I have a background in Christianity, Mr. Barker, the God of the Bible isn’t that great of a guy if you read about “him”. If “he” truly existed he is not worthy of my praise. I’m perfectly fine with people not sharing my viewpoint on the matter. Do you have a particular religion? If so, how long have you enjoyed your faith? Also, I appreciate the friendly exchange.
Yes sir, I am a Christian, and I also appreciate the friendly exchange. We are certainly free to believe what we want. I'm actually a very evidence oriented individual and this includes my faith. I personally think the evidence is very strong on many fronts. Especially on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Also in my own life I've experienced multiple supernatural events confirming my faith in God. It may sound crazy to you but I'm not talking about emotional experiences. I mean prophetic dreams, visions and miracles of healing.
It is a broken world for sure but it won't be that way forever. Everything will be made new and in the new creation there will be no suffering or death. I'm not gonna lie, it's hard for me to accept the suffering in this world too. In my job in radiology I have seen alot of terrible things. But I know God's word is true so I trust that the worst things cannot compare to the joy to come. I need to get off of here for now but I hope we can have some more dialogue in the future. Maybe discuss some specifics. ✌️
55:27 not die, tortured to death.