What Is God Like?: Understanding God from the Parables of Jesus, (Paperback)

<p>Jesus gave us glimpses into the heart of God through wonderfully rich stories that painted a picture with words of what God is like. We call them parables. He used everyday characters, scenarios, and situations to illustrate for us the things that God desires. The attributes of God portrayed by these parables were very often at direct odds with the perceptions about Him that the religious leaders and even the common people believed to be true. Jesus' parables reveal the character and nature of God so that we can truly know Him. </p><p>Jesus' stories made use of the ordinary things that His listeners would have been familiar with and encountered regularly in their everyday lives. Who among them had not watched a farmer sow seeds, been to a marriage feast, or witnessed the extravagance of the rich? Jesus used these stories to impart spiritual truths to those whose hearts were open to Him.</p><p>these stories made the truth attainable and quite often shocked the listener with something very unexpected. Jesus employed these shocking plot twists to illustrate that men had actually twisted the Scriptures to suit their own ends, and therefore, what the people thought they knew to be true, Jesus brilliantly showed it to not be so. </p><p>Such was the teacher from Galilee. The man who spoke as no one had ever spoken before!</p><p></p><p></p>

• What Is God Like?: Understanding God from the Parables of Jesus, (Paperback)
• Author: David M Nance
• ISBN: 9798344864433
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2024-11-10
• Page Count: 94