Christ Jesus' words "If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them"Mark 16:18;
are not an invitation to tempt one's ability by a self-willed or egotistical desire to exhibit one's mastery of material conditions.
Are you conducting a kind of rearguard, defensive action staving off mortality, or are you expecting and experiencing a progressive sense of God's presence, power, and love?
For centuries people have believed that the healings and other works performed by Christ Jesus were miracles, supernatural events brought about by God's intervention and His setting aside of natural laws.
Freedom of speech, freedom of opportunity, equality of education, the right to self-determination, the right to basic food and sustenance, all these and many more human rights are demanded by our current activists.
Christ Jesus made one of his most dramatic statements when he told the chief priests and elders of the people that "the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.