So in that regard I completely agree with you. We are not at all what God intended, and need to reform. However that cannot remove Jesus from His proper place, that He put Himself in, as the only way to God. Tom, see my clarifications on John in my just-published post. And hey, if all of this shakes the tree and gets us to think a little more deeply, all the better!
Avast ye harty! I be the Dread Pirate Scetis. I found your port through WordPress suggestion and I thought I would need to hit the grog, turn port-side and fire all my cannons at you. But alas, I see a good, heartfelt and compassionate description of what it means to be a Christian.
No judgment yet a doctrinally correct explanation. Ye have a real view of the church and what is wrong with many Christians out there. I tip me hat to ya matey! Smooth sailings! Well thank you! Another interesting perspective Chris! Your blog is refreshing to me as an atheist! My heart gets broken every time I hear stories like yours, and believe me, I share them with the churches I work with to warn and encourage them to be more like the person Jesus they worship.
On the other hand, there are churches and people who truly are authentically Christ-like. Hope to keep hearing from you, Jetson! Hello again, sir. I really enjoy your posts. Sad to say, but true, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible to you. I look forward to your essays. Thank you. Hi there- Yes, I could clearly see that you are one spiritually open and seeking person! I was really fascinated to see all the different strains of spirituality you weave yourself through.
I think a LOT of people share a similar hangup with you: in the sea of religious information and misinformation, who or what do you trust? It seems a lot safer to be non-committed to something than risk getting hurt committing yourself. We recently moved to a new town and the number one question we have been asked by locals, friends and family is — Have you found a church yet? I thought I had. In the Family of Christ. Have we found a building in town that is filled with people who have our personality and style?
This tiny town is still promoting Christianity. Conforming to their Church. Love, fellowship, grace, mercy has yet to be seen from this outsider. I was asked to leave a church because I had a metal coffee cup with a lid, filled with coffee instead of water. How to do we get people to quit promoting Christianity? Dress Codes? Praying for this town, and for all of the churches promoting Christianity as a culture, instead of Christ as the Creator, Savior and Giver of Joy.
Amen Brother! We at Saved Life are also trying to show the difference between Jesus and religion. It is a tender situation sometimes. My belief is Jesus looks different to each one of us because we all experience Him differently.
I have an exercise that I use with my students to prove this point. I will give each one of them a piece of paper and something to write with. Next I will read them a Scripture from the New Testament. I will ask them to write down what they think that Scriptures means to them.
My relationship with Christ is mine. It is unique because it is mine and I am unique. I am one of many unique and beautiful children of God. He made each one of us with our own special abilities, gifts, and talents to use for His purpose. A personal relationship with God has been and is the most important thing in my life. We are about to embark on a Coast to Coast benefit ride for the homeless and to promote Christian Living. We must get back to basics. Back to our roots as Christians! God Bless!
Wow… God bless you and your work! God is the alpha and omega the beginning and ending.. I also believe we are in the last days because christ said there will be rumours of wars and earthquakes in diverse places and so forth.. In due respect,if we were to understand that the handling of the scribes by the many hands of all sorts of ppl throughout the ages of time could not elude the tampering for the beneficiary rewards for the many writers that contributed to this book called the Bible.
The many who are without the study if research are lost and destroyed from the lack of knowledge. For history is best reward for all reseach. If we but only understood the chromosomes of the Male and female of the human being we can better understand the procreation of the human being and the laws of mathematics and that of nature inwhich there is no change.
Everything reproduces after its own KIND. One must understand that when a lie is told constantly it becomes as truth. Jesus was a great servant and prophet of God for his era of time and ppl. We can witness and attest to that fact as performed seasonally in its season.
We are constantly told of two places that none of us know nothing about yet alone having experienced of being in either place. Places uncharted by any living who has returned to the living after they had expired. Ppl are not willing or eager to die. They try to live as long as they can. Those places are of two conditions right here on this earth while we live. It is not the wise who thinks foolish, but the foolish who thinks not wise. HOW foolish of us to absorb such tomfoolery.
And the further away from the light the dimmer it gets. May I respectfully suggest that one do not be led by the blind and take not the book called the Bible literary, inwhich wherein is contaminated with myths, deceptions, metaphors, heresy and forlklores. May I humbly suggest as a starter to study the book of the Acts with an unbias eye and an opened mind. Thank you kindly for reading this if you did.
God is God jesus is his son,the holly spirt is God! God is not a God of confusion! The first defense of the doctrine of the Trinity was in the early 3rd century by the early church father Tertullian.
This man created the Trinitarian doctrine. Majority of the people found issue with it because it was man made. This false doctrine started by a man and is like a little yeast and you can see it has found its way into many churches. Satan is tricky. We believe We dont know I have never met the man jesus Therefore i believe But i have laid my eyes on the creators master pieces you and i Therefore i know our Father exists. Salaam alaikum, brother, fellow Son of Abraham, I appreciate your openness.
I agree with the author here. The Holy Spirit was a similar Son of God, as we all are, but with a special mission. The confusion in English, pointed out by the author, is not confusing in the original Greek.
Also, like him, a. Islam continues to threaten peace and democracy our mission in the world for over years. You are a Son of Abraham, and I recognize that. My paternal grandmother was Arab, but my maternal side has strong Jewish roots. I choose not to follow the aggressively destructive path of the Arab, but instead the Jewish traditions, like Jesus did.
I invite you to do likewise. Jesus is God in human also God in the Spiritual realm. Romans 14How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? May every one go through these verses slowly.. Revelation ,13 Revelation ,8 and 1Timothy The word Son does not mean offspring…it is capitalized because it means image… Jesus, the Son of God, hence, the image of God….
Not, Jesus the son of God, meaning his child. When concerning the topic of the trinity 1 Corinthians Furthermore, during the era of Constantine the great Arius, a priest from Alexandria, Egypt and Athanasius, a deacon also from Alexandria having opposing views sparked a controversy and divide in the church that prompted concern in Constantine.
This historical fact should provide everyone with food for thought. Few understand that the idea of a trinity was adopted several centuries after the Bible was completed.
So one should ask himself why all the confusion if God is not the author of confusion? Now think about the major shift in the history of Christianity if the vote would have fallen in favor of Arius who believed Jesus was created as the Son of God and God the only true God with no one else with such greatness to be considered one in a trinitarian sense. Was Jesus an actual human? Has God ever been human? Study St. John, then the three letters of John—then go back and do it all again. As you study and pray, Jesus himself will reveal all to you.
Yeshua said, When you abide in me, I will abide in you and we will be one as my father and I are one and we will be one together. Yeshua is saying when any 2 or more are in agreement You are either for me or against me.
When a man and a woman are to become one flesh same thing in their truest intentions they walk in the unity of oneness of mind. Sorry but Jesus did not resurrect in human form as you are conveying here. He resurrected in a spiritual body as an example to us of what our future resurrection will be, and our form in eternity will be like.
Jesus had the capability to appear in the physical after His resurrection. Him eating with the disciples and allowing Thomas to literally touch the crucifixion nail holes is proof of His ability to appear in the physical. But, He also was able to move thru walls and appear out of nowhere. This is a characteristic of what one who is in a spiritual body can do also.
Our future eternal life will be in a spiritual body as described in scripture and set by example by Jesus Himself. Agreed Bradford. So God and Jesus are one. Ex 3 God said Iam Jesus said I am. Well maybe not! He has the scares on his hands and feet still and always will as a reminder. He sent the comforter his mother the breath of the spirit, for us after he left to wait his return. Yes he is as we shall be, better and it may be entirely different and may not be all we think we know I think is.
We will be given a perfect spiritual and fiscal body if we are saved. What kind of body that could entirely be is truly unknown.. A Spiritual body is not a spirit body. Job said that though the Lord slay me yet in my flesh I shall see God. Consider Ezekiel valley of dry bones which are resurrected in the flesh. And you yourself mentioned Jesus resurected body with wounded flesh.
I agree; further unless you are born of the spirit you will not fully understand because revelation is of God who reveals himself to us once we obey his instructions he gave his Apostoles to give ro us. Please read and study 1 Timothy We are now human beings and we will then be the full expression of our humanness. But as you stated, unlike us, Jesus is fully God and fully man forever.
I am afraid that you have quoted the scriptures regarding the fatherhood of God out of context. True, John gives the right to become the children of God to all those who received Jesus. See Matthew It is absurd to state that the Doctrine of Trinity is a subsequent teaching , thereby implying that it is not in the Bible. Reading Matthew , a thought occurred: God spoke a sentence? Words people heard and understood? Or are we in metaphors and again? Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which is a translation of the Hebrew word mashiach, which is translated Messiah or Anointed One.
Prophets Isaiah , priests Exodus , and kings 2 Samuel were anointed under the Old Covenant. Christ may be one of the most meaningful titles of Jesus with a rich meaning because it highlights the threefold office of Jesus as Prophet, Priest, and King, and all that is connected to them. As humanity suffers the effect of the Fall, we need someone to reveal the character of God to us, to intercede for us, and to lead the way that we should go.
God has not left us without the final word in the Word who came in the flesh in Jesus Christ to pay the penalty we justly deserve and rise again.
Let us then be thankful that God the Father did not neglect our great need for Christ alone, but has sent the Christ for the sake of the people of God to save, sanctify, and glorify a people for His possession and glory. Dave Jenkins is happily married to Sarah Jenkins. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon.
This seems to be the never-ending question that mankind is keen to know the answer to. With the wide variety of religions and beliefs that we have, as well as approaches based on science, everyone has an opinion as to who or what is the reason for our existence. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Jesus Christ , most commonly shortened to Jesus, is one of the three divine persons of God. Jesus is thought to have been sent by God the Father to save mankind, and is the physical manifestation of God.
He taught the word of God, performed miracles, forgave sinners and built the foundation of the Church.
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