APRIL 30 JQ#12.3 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

APRIL  30  JQ#12 - Who decides what is legal, God or man?

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, today I start my prayer to You with a desire do honor to Your Name by doing all that my limited abilities will allow to share “God’s Truth” with those that desire to know and love God on a higher plane than ever before!  Lord, as I started my day today by reading my prayer to You on April 30, 2004 I am impressed by how wonderful You have been to me all these years as I have been seeking You and Your Truth and so Lord I pray back to You 12 years later a portion of that prayer for “Your Truth” is timeless: “Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit, there is none but Thee. We in our unworthiness only magnify Thy Grace. Our filthy sin only makes Your Love shine brighter than can be described -- our worthless lives become priceless with but a drop of Your Grace. Let Your Light, Your Truth, and Your Love be our Way and our Life!   AMEN

The Jesus Questions

JQ#12.3 — “Who decides what is legal, God or man?” (Matthew 12:4,5,10,11,12).  In order to establish the “facts” in this “trial” we must (1) establish, as best we can, all the circumstances of the accused, (2) establish “motivation” and then (3) “examine” all the “evidence” that remains. We must refer to writings and historical documents for there are no living eyewitness and the event in question which can be established as having taken place over 2000 years ago! Let us begin with the original charges and produce what circumstantial evidence available to us by using trustworthy historical documents and recorded facts. Let us start with a modern definition from a current legal dictionary.  In an internet article titled: “Circumstantial Evidence: Legal Definition of Circumstantial Evidence” we read: “Information and testimony presented by a party in a civil or criminal action that permit conclusions that indirectly establish the existence of a fact or event that the party seeks to prove.” The article also cites the U. S. Supreme Court from Holland v. United States, 348 U. S. 121, 75 S. Ct. 127, 99 L. Ed. 150 [1954] as the court stated: “circumstantial evidence is intrinsically no different from testimonial [direct] evidence.” and the article concludes: “Thus, the distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence has little practical effect in the presentation or admissibility of evidence in trials.” Contained in the article is a reference to “Scientific Evidence” and states: “In addition, much Scientific Evidence is circumstantial, because it requires a jury to make a connection between the circumstance and the fact in issue.” The first Circumstantial Evidence that should be established is that circumstantial evidence is also known as indirect evidence and in its own definition states: “[Circumstantial evidence] is distinguished from direct evidence, which, if believed, proves the existence of a particular fact without any inference or presumption required.” Two things to note as we present circumstantial evidence is (1) “Proof” is established by “belief” for both circumstantial evidence (“…because it requires a jury to make a connection…”) and indirect evidence (“…which, if believed, proves…”). (2) “Circumstantial evidence"  known as “indirect” evidence has the legal standing as “direct evidence” as declared by the U. S. Supreme Court and is also equivalent to “Scientific Evidence”. Therefore  the first circumstantial evidence presented in  order to establish “proof” is  Exhibit 1 CE — To establish “proof”, “belief” must be involved, regardless of the type of evidence used. Exhibit 2 CE —The Holy Bible is a collection of 44 identified eye witnesses that have been used thousands of years and has been considered trustworthy for that same period of time.   The Bible: John 20:31 states “…these [eye witness accounts] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God…” . Therefore if “proof” is established by “belief” in “circumstantial evidence” that the U. S. Supreme Court declares as “legal” then we need to ask ourselves why we don’t “believe” the Bible “since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…” (Hebrews 12:1)???