Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Quotes

“To understand this phrase properly, we have to understand that the word wind is, in the Greek, the same word as spirit. What Jesus explained to Nicodemus here is that conversion is simple but also profound. Out of heaven will come a wind of the Spirit, and though you might not be able to tell where it came from or where it is going, you will know it when it hits you, and it will change you forever.”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“Salvation is not something simply admirable; it possesses us and causes us to be a peculiar people. It is not simply understood; it is felt and experienced. When a person acknowledges his sins, confesses them, and trusts the death and resurrection of Christ to save him, he is saved. We do not receive a plan; we receive a person. We do not receive truth; we receive the One who said, “I am…the truth” (John 14:6).”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“The torment of hell is not fire and brimstone, pitchforks and claws, or, as Dante supposed, aimless wandering, unsatisfied lust, icy rain, foul swamps, or any kind of eternal violence. Hell is a place utterly without God.”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“While we do not live under the Law of Moses insofar as the sacrificial system as a means of our salvation or right standing with God, we do observe the law as a divine standard. The law points out our shortcomings and our need for a Savior.”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“Salvation is a simple yet mysterious truth. The way is clear: a person must agree with God about his sins and turn from them. He must personally invite Jesus into his life as Lord and Savior. My friend Ron Dunn put it best, I think, when he said that salvation happens when “we give all we know about ourselves to all we know about Jesus.” This is a transaction that takes place by faith.”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“There at Eden it would seem that these cherubim are hostile to humans in that they guard the way, or block access to, the tree of life. On the contrary, they are exhibiting grace, for if Adam were to eat from that tree, he would have been cursed to live in an aging body forever. It was grace that set the cherubim there for us.”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond

“THERE ARE MANY misconceptions about miracles. While this is not the place for an exhaustive explanation of miracles, their existence, their purpose, or their power, it is important that there be an acknowledgement that miracles are. Miracles still happen today, and as important as it is that we acknowledge their existence, we need also to understand how they occur. Simply put, a miracle is a dimensional interruption whereby God breaks into our mundane existence and changes our lives from ordinary to extraordinary. It is a thing of wonder, and we can, and should, live in wonder again!*”
― Ron Phillips, Unexplained Mysteries of Heaven and Earth: Surprising Insights About Our World and Beyond