The prophet Isaiah wrote:

9 "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little." (Isaiah 28:9-10)

This sermon provides answers and explanations to questions that outside the Continuing Church of God have.

There was an article on MSN by Lisa O titled ’15 questions that religious people struggle to answer.’ Yet, while the world’s religious struggle with them, we in the Continuing Church God have long had answers to them. The first seven of those questions were covered in the first two parts of this four-part sermon series. In this sermon, the following four were asked and answers provided for:

8. Why do religious beliefs so often depend on where you were born?

9. Why would an all-powerful God need worship? If God is self-sufficient and perfect, why does He require constant worship and obedience? Religious teachings emphasize the importance of praising God, but why would a divine being need constant affirmation from humans? The idea of an all-powerful being demanding worship seems more like a human invention than a divine necessity.

10. Why did God create a world that makes Him seem non-existent? If God wants people to believe in Him, why does the universe look exactly as it would if no god existed?

11. Why do religious experiences contradict each other? Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and followers of other religions all claim to have personal experiences with God. Yet these experiences often lead them to completely different conclusions about the divine. If religious experiences were truly from God, wouldn't they lead people to the same truth instead of conflicting beliefs?

Well, those questions are mainly wrong the way they are framed and show a lack of understanding the plan of the loving and true God of the Bible. Yet, in this sermon, Dr. Thiel addresses each of these questions primarily through quoting the Bible as well as free literature put out by the Continuing Church of God. He discusses tradition, societal, governmental, cultural, & family pressures, the importance of proving all things and holding fast what is good, difficulties in changing, that God is NOT an egotistical being that needs worship, why the 'Beatific Vision" is not the goal for Christians, the mathematical position that the universe had to have a beginning, why a physical universe had to have a non-physical being create it, that aspects of why life could not have started with a Creator, that God wants obedience for the good of us, that the purpose of the commandments is love, the fact that the world's religions are not of God, why prophetic confirmation is not proof of God's involvement, demonic influences, why humans do not actually communicate with the dead, that religious experiences of the lawless are not acceptable to Jesus, and God's criteria. Dr. Thiel mentions the 'here a little, there a little' approach and quotes many scriptures to answer questions that the world's religions struggle with.

A written article of related interest is available titled 'Questions Non-Church of God Faiths Struggle to Answer' URL: Questions Non-Church of God Faiths Struggle to Answer

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