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Religion / Were There Any Public Miracles Performed By Jesus After His Resurrection? by ApostleGGJ: 1:34pm On Apr 17, 2022
Of course, yes. The Lord Jesus performed some public miracles after His resurrection. And here are a few of them:
1. The Resurrection itself.
By His resurrection, Jesus demonstrated that He triumphed over all His enemies by conquering death, an obvious superlative miracle (Matthew 28:11-15, 18; Colossians 2:15)
2. Appearing and disappearing at will.
After His resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples over a period of forty days and gave them many convincing proofs that He was alive (Acts 1: 3–4). Also He once disappeared miraculously (Luke 24:31).
3. Walking through closed doors.
Jesus appeared to the disciples who were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders (John 20:19). It was a great miracle for the frightened disciples to see the Lord standing before them live and bringing to them a message of hope and consolation.
4. Catching a huge number of fish.
When the disciples went fishing after the death of Jesus, they saw Him standing on the beach. But they couldn't recognize who He was until He caused them to catch 153 large fish in their net, yet the net was not torn (John 21:3-11).
5. The Ascension of Jesus.
After Jesus was resurrected and had appeared to the disciples with convincing evidence, He ascended into Heaven, taken up in the sky, which also was witnessed by them (Acts 1:1-11). This was actually the greatest public miracle in the Bible!
The apostle John testifies:
"This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true. Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written." (John 21:24-25)
Religion / Inquiring About The Influences That Shaped Jesus' Mind In His Youthful Days by ApostleGGJ: 8:17am On Apr 16, 2022
Many sceptics have been asking questions about where Jesus was between ages 12 and 30, what He was doing, and the influences that shaped Jesus' mind in His adolescence and early adulthood as well as probing whether He had tutors or mentors in philosophy.
My immediate response is: there is no historical or Biblical record that shows where Jesus was between ages 12 and 30.
Given the fact that the Bible tells the story of Jesus' appearance in the Temple when he was 12 years old (Luke 2:41–52) and doesn't reveal anything more about His adolescence until He began His ministry at about thirty years of age (Luke 3:23), this period between His childhood and the beginning of his public ministry is regarded as "the unknown years of Jesus (also called His silent years, lost years, or missing years)".
According to Wikipedia, “The ages of 12 and 30, the approximate ages at either end of the unknown years, have some significance in Judaism of the Second Temple period: 13 is the age of the bar mitzvah, the age of secular maturity,[2] and 30 the age of readiness for the priesthood, although Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi.” Also, in his commentary on Luke 2:42, John Piper states:
"The fact that this incident happened when Jesus was 12 is probably significant. The 12th year was the final year of preparation for a lad before he entered full participation in the religious life of the synagogue. Up until that time his parents, especially his father, were teaching him the commandments of the law, but at the end of the 12th year the child goes through a ceremony by which he formally takes on the yoke of the law and becomes a bar mitzvah or "son of the commandment." This was the year Jesus chose to stay behind in the temple. Perhaps, at this crucial turning point in every Jewish boy's life, Jesus wanted to demonstrate subtly for those who had eyes to see that he would be more than an ordinary Jewish bar mitzvah; his insight into the commandment was more profound than ordinary men, and his relation to God was unique. Both of these will be evident in a moment."
It appears therefore to be the custom of those days that at age 12, to mark the passage from childhood to adulthood, Jewish boys were presented to the leaders of the Temple. Therefore, there were no years really missing about the years of Jesus as the Bible tells us that He returned from the Temple in Jerusalem with His earthly parents and came to Nazareth where He lived under their custody (Luke 2:51–52).
Later, we see the Jews who saw Jesus when He was growing up in within their neighborhood in Nazareth identifying Him as a carpenter's son, that is Joseph’s son (Matthew 13:55); thus implying that Jesus was engaged in family carpentry business before starting His ministry. Even the people who seem to be too familiar with Jesus calls Him a “carpenter” (Mark 6:3).
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the Bible does not disclose any information on Jesus' life between ages 12 and 30, some people have been inventing stories about these unknown years such as Jesus:
* following John the Baptist His cousin to join the Essenes in the Dead Sea area as a monk or separatist;
* learning the mystic arts in Egypt as well as travelling to India or elsewhere in the Near East where He studied Buddhism and;
* journeying across the Atlantic Ocean to preach to the American Indians, who some believe to be the “lost ten tribes” of Israel.
Obviously, the Bible does not say that there are any particular influences that shaped Jesus' mind in His adolescence and early adulthood nor some people who were His tutors or mentors in philosophy or religion other than the Holy Spirit.
At age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple, “sitting among the religious teachers, discussing deep questions with them. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.” (Luke 2:46–47). It didn't yet dawn on them that they were sitting with the Word of God in human flesh (John 1:1, 14).
At the commencement of His ministry when He was about 30 years of age, Jesus was said to be “full of the Holy Spirit” (Luke 4:1) and being “filled with the Holy Spirit's power” such that news about Him quickly spread throughout the whole country. In Nazareth, where he had been brought up, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and as was His custom, He read the Scripture that revealed the “influences that shaped” His mind in His adolescence and early adulthood, if you like His “tutor or mentor” (Luke 4:14–21). Here then is the response:
>All who were there spoke well of him and were amazed by the gracious words that fell from his lips. "How can this be?" they asked. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" Luke 4:22
In actuality, the story of Jesus is a mystery, for He is indeed “the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:24) that surpasses human wisdom and philosophy. No influences or tutors/mentors in this world can be compared or associated with Him! “For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human body" (Colossians 2:9).
Family / Re: Christian Marriage Is Not For Better For Worse......not Biblical by ApostleGGJ: 3:11pm On Apr 15, 2022
I find this post on the subject quite insightful and enlightening:
“For better for worse” is NOT in the Bible. “Till death do us part” is NOT in the Bible.

I know many of you don’t read your Bible so what I’m saying now is very shocking to you.

Let me say it clearly again-
The phrase “for better for worse” is NOT in the Bible.

E shock you abi

It’s a dangerous rhetoric smuggled into christian marriage vows but those exact phrases are totally ABSENT from the Bible.

But not many Christians and not many Nigerians know this.

People just hear “till death do us part” and “for better for worse” and they assume it’s in Bible

The popular traditional vows dates back to 1549 recorded in the “Book of Common Prayer” BCP used by The Church of England.

Even the popular words “speak now or forever hold your peace” are also NOT in the Bible. It also traces its origins back to the marriage liturgy in the BCP.


The oldest standard wedding vows traced back to the Book of Common Prayer was written by a priest called Thomas Cranmer.

He was the was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Kings HenryVIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I... Thomas Cranmer wrote:

I, _____, take thee, _____, to be my wedded Husband, to have and hold from this day forward, FOR BETTER FOR WORSE, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance."

I expect few ignorant Christians will gather under this post and start twisting things writing ridiculous nonsense.

“Oh it’s implied”
“But Bible says don’t put asunder”
“How about cleaving to become one flesh”

All sorts of pseudo-intelligent rebuttals. But my position is clear.

And for people who are interested in history: you will be interested to know that the same Thomas Cranmer helped to build the case for the divorce of King Henry from Catherine of Aragon.

What’s the point of this?
The SAME man who wrote the wedding vows of “till death do us part”

The same man who wrote the popular wedding vows of “till death do us part” helped the King of England to divorce his wife at the time: Catherine of Aragon.

So when people use the vows he wrote over 500 years ago as justification for spousal abuse in marriage- it’s a huge shame.

So in summary, to be clear:
The popular Christian wedding vows of “till death do us part”, “for better for worse” is NOT in the Bible.

It was written by a priest in England.
You can write your own vows and make your own promise to your partner using your own language.

The end.

@DrOlufunmilayo

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