@Studyman
You are a coward! Do not take free shots at me, without entering into a serious debate on this subject. They should start this debate with you and me one on one! Others can be matched up as best for them.. All of us should at one time be able to debate each person. But, this is not up to me.
You have misrepresented me. Much of what you are babbling about is border line of blasphemy.
The Christ "of the Bible", the Holy One of Israel, or as David called Him, "The Scepter of God's Kingdom" in my understanding, became a flesh and blood, mortal human being in the person of Jesus. He was born of a woman. He learned obedience by the things HE suffered. He was temped in all ways, as other humans. He was "Taught in the way that HE should go", from His Youth. He came, as it is written, "As a Lamb to the Slaughter". He lived by Faith in His Father and became the perfect Human Being. And because of His Efforts, His Commitment to His Father, "because" HE "Yielded Himself" to God in all things, God anointed Him and gave Him a name above every other human ever born.
You want to talk about "Deity", a God who laid down His Own Immortal Life, risked His Own Immortality to become a perfect sacrifice to God "for men", to redeem "men", to save "men".
But in this world God placed me in, there is another Christ being promoted. A Christ that chooses angels, based on nothing they do, to be protected, while choosing other angels, like Lucifer, to be left on their own and not protected.
When I ask the question, "protected from what"? It's God's Kingdom in heaven, Lucifer was created perfect just as all angels are, just as Eve was. There was no evil there. What did the Angels need to be protected from?
None of the promoters of this world's religions have an answer, nor will they even engage. I have found the answer through study and faith. Not by the teaching of this world's religious system, but be coming out of this world's religious system .
You also teach this same Christ sent Eve into a World with a perfect deceiver, "with no assistance at all". Then when she was deceived because you preach she had no protection, He punished her. And not just her, but her children as well. And not just her children, but all children ever born to this day, by creating in them, according to you, a "Sin Nature" that Adam and Eve (and Lucifer) were not created with.
Then you preach that this same Christ created Laws impossible for these men HE created with a "Sin Nature" to obey. You called them "Beggarly Elements, a "Yoke of Bondage". But HE told them they could obey Him, which you preach isn't true. Then this same Christ slaughtered the men who didn't obey these Laws you preach are impossible to obey.
Then you adopt and promote to others, that the Prophesied Messiah, who Isaiah said,
Is. 7:
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, "that he may know" to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Is. 53:
2 For he shall grow up before him "as a tender plant", and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Wasn't a man, tempted in all ways as other men, but was God. And you have said more than once, that this God man overcame sin and temptation, not by Faith, as is required of all other Humans, but "Because" HE was God and retained God powers no other human was every allowed to access, and HE overcame Sin and Temptation by implementing these powers that HE Himself, as the God of Abraham, withheld from all other humans.
This is not just your adopted religion, but a philosophy of man that is and has been widely taught since long before we were placed by God in this world.
This is the philosophy you promote Red, with the lipstick taken off. You have shown this teaching to me over and over for more than a decade now.
I don't believe the Bible as a whole supports this world's religious system, or the philosophies promoted therein. I don't believe the Christ you promote, is the Christ as shown to us in Scriptures.
Clearly we were warned other Christs, "another Jesus" and deceptions from men who "Transform themselves into apostles of Christ".
Heb. 4:
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted "like as we are", yet without sin.
You philosophy that Jesus stacked the deck by claiming to be a man, but reserving for Himself God Powers HE Himself withheld from all other humans, and then gave Himself the Trophy when HE overcame temptations, is an awful judgment against God, and not supported by Scriptures. But remains in perfect alignment of your Judgment of God sending Eve into the world "with no assistance at all" so she would become defiled, then punishing her and the entire world because she was defiled. And also aligns with your Judgment of God that HE placed impossible to obey Laws on the necks of men who trusted Him, then slaughtered them by the thousands when they couldn't obey.
I'm not misrepresenting your adopted religious philosophy at all. I'm just removing the lipstick, like Jesus did to the Philosophies of the mainstream preachers of His Time. Perhaps instead of working so hard to justify yourself and your adopted religion, you would be better off "
presenting your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
But it's a choice only you can make.
