Review: Life Explored Series -The Good God (Ep1)

If you are reading this review on the Sabbath, then I would like to wish you a Sabbath in the presence of God Almighty.

This week’s review is for the series, Life Explored, which is a seven part series. The first episode is called,The Good God.

Description

An exposé of the little gods that promise us so much happiness, yet deliver so little. As it explores the Bible story (creation, fall, redemption, new creation), Life Explored shows how our deepest desires for happiness can only be satisfied in one person, Jesus Christ. The best gift God can give us is himself.

Life Explored is one of the course modules offered by the ministry, Christianity Explored. I am not affiliated with their ministry, but enjoy watching and reviewing the content of their courses.

I reviewed, Christianity Explored, which has ten parts, in May and June of this year and am looking forwarding to bringing you reviews for the other modules.

The Good God, is a candid episode about how we actually are as human beings and the God we are supposed to mirror. Rico Tice presents a wonderful introduction and the main presentation has a powerful analogy about being a mirror, taken from scripture. I like how Rico emphasized that God created us, on this earth, in a unique way - there is no other creation like human beings.

Rico makes us reflect on how we have or are trying to look for happiness in the wrong places and seek perfection in a broken world. I think of it this way - the best gift is looking me in the face, when I look in the mirror, as I am made in His image.

There is one thing that Rico Tice mentions, that is not found in scripture. He says there is one God, in three distinct persons. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

John 17:20-24 says

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Throughout His prayer, Jesus is talking about the oneness of Him and His Father - no other spiritual entity is mentioned - meaning, no third distinct person is mentioned.

I would think that if there is a person called the Holy Spirit, that Jesus would have said, that we all are one, I, you, Father and the Holy Spirit - but Jesus only mentions himself and His Father - two beings in the Godhead.

Keeping in mind that Jesus says that God loved Him before the foundation of the world: Genesis 1:26 says: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

It seems to me that the “us” in Genesis 1:26 is referring to the Father and the Word (which would later become flesh as Jesus Christ).

So it seems that Jesus is the image of God the Father and human beings were created to mirror the image of them.

Other than that part, the episode, The Good God was as informative and inspiring as the other episodes in the other module, Christianity Explored.

I watched, Life Explored: Episode - The Good God on redeemtv.com.

Thank you for reading this review. Until next time - peace be with you.

--Deborah

https://watch.redeemtv.com/videos/life-explored-the-good-god

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