Question of the Week: does God hate people?
Verses: Romans 9:13, Luke 14:26

God’s priority in all of our lives is His relationship with us. Since God is by nature loving, and us all having a relationship with Him was His idea in the first place, it’s obvious that our term for hatred is different from God’s. We as human beings hate people as an act of passion. Our emotion of hate describes the absence of love. God’s hatred is simply a lesser degree of love. When God hates, it’s always used in the Bible referring to a sense of priority in relationships. For example, when Jesus said that unless you hate father and mother, you’re not worthy to be called my disciple, it’s easy to understand from the text that He wasn’t commanding us to hate our parents. The conversation was about your priorities. Do you love your father and mother more than you love Me? If so then your priorities are out of line. It’s this kind of hatred that God expresses towards Esau. He loved Esau and Jacob in greater ways than we as humans are even capable of, yet Esau made a personal choice to distance himself from God in favor of other things. God blessed him and his descendants, but in no way compared to the blessings Jacob had in store. God’s desire for a personal relationship with us is His priority. The more room we make for Him, the more that love has room to be expressed.

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Question of the Week: Do we know if Jesus was actually born on Christmas?
Verses: Romans 14:5-10

Whether or not Jesus was born on Christmas morning doesn’t change the fact that He was born. We know He existed in history and what He was born to do. The gift of eternal life being given to us by Him taking on human form and giving His life is why we celebrate His birth. God coming to this world is a big enough deal to celebrate. If you personally choose to celebrate that reality every day of the year, then more power to you. The reason we celebrate Jesus’ birth on Christmas is simply because it is an event worth celebrating. Giving people a time of the year where Jesus becomes the focus is always going to be a good thing.

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Question of the Week: What are some of the Old Testament Prophecies that talk about Jesus’ first and second comings?
Verses: Isaiah 2:4, 7:14, 9:6, Micah 5:2, Jeremiah 23:5-6, Psalm 22, Zechariah 9:9, Daniel 9:24-26

While we have more evidence than we know what to do with about Jesus’ first coming historically, the Old Testament prophets went to even greater lengths to describe it in detail before it even happened. Over 100 prophecies were fulfilled by Jesus in His first coming; including where He’d be born, how He’d die, what date in history and on what kind of animal He’d enter the city of Jerusalem on, and especially His status as God Himself. Three times that number remain unfulfilled until Jesus’ second coming, but we know since Jesus kept the promises He fulfilled in His first coming, the promises we have yet to see fulfilled are guaranteed.

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Question of the Week: Was Jesus born on December 25th?
Verses: Luke 2:1-7

The short answer is that we don’t know. The long answer is that we’re asking the wrong question. How do we know Jesus was born at all? In order to know something happened, we need three things. 1. It needs to have happened. 2. We need people to have seen it. And 3. We need to know we can trust those people who saw it. We know that the accounts of Jesus’ birth in Luke and Matthew had direct contact with not only the Roman sources that told us who was Emperor of Rome, who was in charge of their region of the Empire, and the event of the Census that took place during His birth, but also the person most directly involved in Jesus birth. That of course being His mother. If you question her sincerity, then we have the lists of not only Jesus’ supporters, but even enemies of Christianity like Tacitus who acknowledged Jesus died historically. It’s hard to die if you’ve never been born. For these reasons and others, we know that Jesus was born. That’s the most important thing to understand. When we celebrate it is a secondary issue.

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