Did the Holy Spirit actually speak directly to the people in the Old Testament, or was it God?
Did the Holy Spirit actually speak directly to the people in the Old Testament, or was it God?
This is one of the truly great and difficult controversies of the church and is one of the big mysteries of scripture.
A common misunderstanding of terminology.
Two hard questions:
How does your personality respond to God’s calling?
Why doesn’t God just forgive us? Why does anyone have to suffer at all?
Having the mind of Christ taught in the Sermon on the Mount and responding to the current moment with Jesus’ spirituality of love—surrender, sacrifice, and service—are the definitive indications of spiritual growth.
The Galilean disciples’ unfamiliarity with Judas would have aided and abetted him in his deception. Having already taken money to betray Christ, Judas came back, blended into the group and pretended nothing unusual had happened.
Little is known about these 3 apostles but their testimony to the Gospel was as powerful and as far reaching as that of the better known and more outspoken disciples.
He may have had his doubts about Jesus’ resurrection, as did the other 11, but St. Thomas, evangelist to India, had great redeeming qualities.