My wife feels God is God, not Jesus is God.  She prays to God, not Jesus ands needs clarity on 3-is-1 and 1-is-3.  She feels Jesus is God's Son, not God.  She feels He came out of Mary's womb, was a baby in need of food, water, etc., and wasn't God.  Are there different beliefs among christians on this?

Sincerely,
Head Count

Dear Head Count,

There are different views on this topic – but only one correct Bible answer.  The Father is God… and Jesus is God, too.  There are three parts to the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  This is most easily seen in Matt 3:16-17.  When Jesus was baptized, the Father spoke from heaven, and the Holy Spirit descended as a dove.  Each of them is eternal (they were all at the creation – Gen. 1:1, Gen. 1:2, Col 1:15-17).  John 1:1 specifically says that Jesus is Deity.  Jesus is different than the Father, but He is part of the Godhead.  Jesus even said that He had always existed (Jhn 8:58).  The apostles worshipped Jesus as God (Jhn 20:28).

Jesus was God in the flesh (1 Tim 3:16).  In Jesus, we can see all the fullness of the Godhead (Col 2:9).  Jesus cried to the Father when He was on the cross because the Father was in heaven while Jesus was here suffering on earth (Mk 15:34).  The Scriptures clearly back up that Jesus is deity.

I have some concerns and questions.  First of all, I’m married and am a minister. Recently, my wife began a journey to seek God, and some things she is telling people are kind of far out there.  I have faith in the Lord and know He can do anything, but what I’m puzzled about is that she is telling people that God said she was sent here and once was an angel and that she was the commander of God’s army.  Not only that, but all her siblings are angels (one was a seraphim angel, one was this, one was that).  But I have been talking and walking with God my whole life.  He tells me one thing and tells her something different.  Then, one day, I tell her God told me to tell her to basically stop lying.  She was standing right in front of me and said God said that I was a sinner and to repent.  Then, an hour passes, and she then said God said that He had forgiven me because I didn’t know and had no wisdom.  I was led to tell her the story of the Nephilim.  She  said she was sent here like Jesus and John the Baptist.  This is starting to cause a situation where I don’t know what to do.  How can God lead me one way and lead her another?  I know from the Word many things.  She also said, like John, the Lord took her memory, and now it’s coming back to her.  I need some direction.  I cant fight her anymore, but what she says I am responsible for.  I’m the husband.  I need to know what the Scripture says about this whole matter.

Sincerely,
Conflicting Reports

Dear Conflicting Reports,

You are both expecting the Lord to speak to you directly, but He speaks to us through His Word.  John warned that adding and subtracting from the Scriptures is wrong (Rev 22:18-19).  Paul warned that we should not go beyond what is written in the Scriptures (1 Cor 4:6).  He also said that if even an angel from heaven (which your wife claims to be) were to preach another gospel, they would be condemned (Gal 1:8).  Contrary to what many churches teach, God doesn’t speak directly to us when we go to Him in prayer.  He does answer our prayers, but not with words.  The book of Jude says that we have all of God’s words handed down to us, once and for all, in the Bible (Jude 1:3).  Just because you feel something in your heart, doesn’t make it true.

Religious confusion happens because we take our ideas and ascribe them to God.  That is why your wife has one religious view, and you have another.  God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor 14:33)… people are.  All religious confusion comes from selfish desires, individual ideas, and jealous factions of mankind (Jas 3:16).  When we serve God according to our own ideals, we are zealous but not knowledgeable, and zeal without knowledge is useless (Rom 10:1-2).  The only way to find unity is to use the Bible as our only guide – nothing more.  God only created one standard (Eph 4:1-6); if we want unity, we’ve got to do things His way.  Ask your wife to show you book, chapter, and verse in the Bible that proves she is a reincarnated angel… we have a pretty confident feeling that she will be at a loss for honest words.

I have a question about the Holy Spirit.  I know in the Bible that it says to deny the Holy Spirit is an eternal sin.  Does this mean that if I have ever said that the Holy Spirit does not exist – even after I have been saved (I had a falling out) – that I will go to hell?  I'd like an answer because I'm not in full understanding of what Jesus meant.

Sincerely,
Trying To Fall In

Dear Trying To Fall In,

The unforgivable sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit, and the fact that you are visiting this website is a pretty sure sign that you haven’t committed it.  Jesus says that any sin will be forgiven except for someone blaspheming the Holy Spirit (Mk 3:28-30).  Jesus said this to the crowd that accused Him of casting out demons by the power of Satan (Mk 3:23).  That crowd could have been forgiven of any sin, but instead they rejected the miracles that testified that Jesus was from God.  Contrast that crowd’s attitude with Nicodemus’ attitude.  Nicodemus understood that the only way that someone could perform a miracle was if God was with him (Jhn 3:2).  When that crowd rejected the evidence that the Holy Spirit provided (in this case, the miracles), they rejected any chance to receive the forgiveness found in Jesus’ teachings.  When we reject the truth of God (the Bible), we reject the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit’s primary job is to bring the truth of the gospel to mankind (see the post “What the Holy Spirit Does” for more details).  Someone blasphemes the Holy Spirit by rejecting the truth that the Holy Spirit sent us in the Bible.  Any sin can be forgiven if we will turn to God’s Word and obey it (Rom 10:17, Heb 5:9), but there is absolutely no hope for someone if he or she will not accept the Holy Spirit’s Bible.

Therefore, since it seems that you are actively seeking the truth and trying to study and learn what God’s Word is – you can find comfort that you haven’t committed the unforgivable sin.

Hello.  I am a thirteen-year-old girl, and I see spirits and have dreams, and then they end up coming true… sometime I see peoples’ auras; I have even read a few minds before.  Having these psychic abilities, I don’t really like because I can’t always control them.  I was wanting to know if it is against Jesus and God to have these abilities?  I would really love if you would help out!!!

Sincerely,
Claire Voyant

Dear Claire Voyant,

Every supernatural ability that Jesus and His apostles displayed were easily verifiable.  They healed lepers, the blind were made to see, the lame were made to walk, and they raised the dead from their graves (Matt 11:5)… just to name a few types of miracles that were performed by those sent by God.  All of these abilities were verifiable, vivid, and public.  Psychics, palm-readers, astrologists, and others that profess to have miraculous abilities always hide behind a cloud of mystery and veil of secrecy.  We are sure that you really believe what you are saying, but it is important that we don’t mistake being perceptive for being clairvoyant.  Witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, and other supposed psychic arts are of the devil (Acts 19:18-19).  Be very careful to avoid anything associated with these things.  You are probably a very intuitive and aware young lady, but make sure to admit that these talents are natural and not supernatural.  God wants us to have honest and sincere hearts (Lk 8:15).  God’s Word cannot flourish in our lives until we admit that He is the only one with supernatural power.

I hear a gentle voice in my head telling me things that make sense to me. Is this the Holy Spirit?  The voice comes at unknown times but never when I am angry.  It comforts me to listen to it.  I have no idea what to call it.  I would like to hear from it and have conversations with it to ask questions I do not understand.  If it is the Holy Spirit, how do I thank it, and what do I call it?  I feel so unworthy that God would talk to me.  But I would be so blessed if He did.  I want a closer relationship with Him.

Sincerely,
Hearing Voices

Dear Hearing Voices,

That voice isn't the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit does not directly speak to people now that we have the complete Bible.  In the past, God communicated His desires through diverse methods of prophecy, visions, dreams, etc., but today He communicates through His Son, Jesus Christ (Heb. 1:1).  The Bible is the complete and perfect Word of God once and for all handed down to us (Jude 1:3).  Now that we have the perfect law of liberty (Jas 1:25), God has ceased using prophecy, visions, and dreams to communicate with us (1 Cor 13:8-10).  That voice in your head may be your conscience, but it isn't God.