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Can God speak to us?. www.jesus-4-u.org. ♫ Turn on your speakers. CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES. -- Text by Joseph Sobran. Flash!. Newsweek reports that the Gospel accounts of Christ's nativity aren't "fully factual."

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  1. Can God speak to us? www.jesus-4-u.org ♫ Turn on your speakers CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES -- Text by Joseph Sobran

  2. Flash! Newsweek reports that the Gospel accounts of Christ's nativity aren't "fully factual." Not to be outdone, Time assures us that "constantly evolving scholarship" casts doubt on the Gospel narratives. So what else is new? Scholarly attempts to diminish Christ go way back.

  3. They suggest that... …for some reason, Christ's first disciples, the ones on the scene at the time, got it all wrong. He didn't do all the things they thought they saw Him doing, or say all the things they thought they heard Him say. The truth isn't to be found in the Scriptures, but in the inferences of modern experts, otherwise known as 'Constantly Evolving Scholarship.'

  4. But so certain were those disciples that countless early Christians bore witness to the truth of the Gospels by suffering the most excruciating martyrdoms imaginable. They set off a huge chain reaction of martyrdom, converting even many of their torturers, who were immensely moved and impressed by this superhuman courage.

  5. Even before the Gospels were written, the martyrs were God's media, so to speak, for bringing men to Christ. Long before the printing press, the radio, movies, and television, the martyrs spread the good news of the risen Christ. Some people still reject that news, and one strategy of rejection is to water it down, mixing it with enough skepticism to make the Gospels seem archaic and alien. Once we reject the miracles because belief in the miraculous now seems "outdated," it becomes easy to reject the message as outdated too.

  6. There are two kinds of agnostics nowadays. One says modestly, "I don't know." The other says belligerently, "Nobody can know." The first is understandable; nearly everyone has doubts at times. But the second is asserting a strange dogma.

  7. To say that nobody can know whether God exists is ridiculous. God is by definition the omnipotent creator of the universe, the source of our being. It's nonsense to say that this omnipotent being could exist without being able to communicate with His own creatures!—That "nobody can know" whether he's real or not.

  8. He can, He did, and He does! He's not a divine deaf-mute. He does speak to us, and just as wonderfully, He listens to us—maybe a bit more keenly than we listen to Him, judging by the state of the world. -- Joseph Sobran

  9. Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. God can never be out-maneuvered, taken by surprise, or caught at a disadvantage. He is a God Who knows no crisis. Before an emergency arises, God in His providence has made adequate & perfectly timed provision to meet it. Are you listening to Him? For more PowerPoint shows, visit: www.jesus-4-u.org

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