But you don't believe Red, not in this Jesus, the Jesus "of the Bible". Your God is a very handsome, long-haired man, born on Dec. 25th, died on the manmade high day of "Good Friday" and was raised a little over 24 hours later, on the manmade high day of Easter Sunday. According to your religion, this long-haired, very handsome God came to save you from His Own Laws, which HE created impossible to obey, then placed them on the necks of men who trusted Him as HE instructed, then lied to them about their capacity to obey Him, and killed them when they didn't.
I will finish answering you in this post and your #357 that said basically the same old vain jangling, which this does with a little more salt and pepper added, but not much, nothing more than what I have come to expect from your posts.
Again as I said already above a few posts back, you truly do not know much about me, even though you have said over the years you have taken what I have said and printed them out for your groups bible studies, which I can only imagine how biased that works in your advantage when the person being used is not there to truly give an honest rebuttal.
Now concerning your words above. We
do not celebrate Christmas, and neither do we judge others that do so. Our convictions is that it is hidden from us for a reason, and besides, Christmas in not very much about Christ, since most the world loves it for other reason than truly honoring Jesus Christ, but,
It is not a major battle that I chose to fight, I just avoid it for the most part. It does not make one more holy if he does not celebrate, it, nor does it make him less holy in his heart, if he does, that's my position of Christmas, folks who chose to fight this battle
are choosing the wrong battle to fight. By not celebrating Christmas, I'm making by statement as loud as I need to do. There are many who do not celebrate Christmas that knows
nothing about the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
I do not celebrate Easter ~ we remember Christ's death in the Lord's supper,
not by the pagan RCC mode of doing doing so. Jesus Christ was not crucified on Good Friday. For now, I will only say this ~
One cannot get three days and three night from a Friday crucifixion to early on the first day of the week. Christ was crucified Wednesday afternoon and buried before sunset that afternoon, and arose from the dead after midnight on the Jewish Sabbath (our Saturday) sometime early
before the sun arose,
so did the Lord Jesus, fulfilling bible prophecy of three full days and nights.
Concerning
"which HE created impossible to obey, then placed them on the necks of men"............ as far as the flesh goes without the new birth, but, the fault is not with God's law, but man's sinful flesh that he inherited from Adam! Get you facts right but speaking what other teach.
Hebrews 8:7-10
“For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For
finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
The
first Covenant laws were holy, spiritual, and good, the
fault was with sinful man unable to do them in their own flesh/power thereof/free will, they had to be "
first" born of the Spirit of God, part of the covenant of grace whereby
God secured for them what they could not do themselves, this God secured for them through his Son Jesus Christ by his free grace and promises, and holy oath!
This is the true gospel proclaimed in the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, but
very clearly seen in the NT of Jesus Christ. This truth is hidden from your eyes, and those that follow you, and anyone who refuses to believe this truth.
Yes, His Father gave Him power over all flesh, "Because in the days of His Flesh", He humbled Himself to His Father and became obedient unto death. He learned obedience through the things HE suffered. He Loved righteousness and hated wickedness. "Therefore, (because of this) God, "His God", hath anointed Him with the oil of gladness above thy fellows".
While it is
very true, that the Lord Jesus Christ
in his flesh as the Son of God, did indeed humbled himself, and while living in the flesh, he indeed learned obedience, grew in wisdom and statue, which is part of what humanity does, yet he was more than just a man, in his complex nature, he was God manifest in the flesh, and thought it not robbery
to be equal to God, since he was in the bosom of the eternal God from everlasting, being ONE with Him.
John 1:18
“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared
him.”
Philippians 2:6
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery
to be equal with God:"
John 8:58
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
You said:
"Yes, His Father gave Him power over all flesh,"...We ask you this question: why did God give Jesus power of all flesh, yes all? Not so much as to why you said so, though what you said we agree with as far as his flesh goes, yet the scriptures is very clear as to why God gave to Jesus power over all flesh ~ listen carefully, since it is a truth you fight against:
John 17:2
“As thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.”
Is that what you teach to others? No you do not. The power given to Jesus Christ from his Father was to be used to impart eternal life to as many (
no more, no less) as God gave to him to save. The rest of John 17 is given to prove this truth, a truth you reject, and by doing so, reject Jesus Christ's teaching from the word of God. You own teachings will speak against you, now, and in then day of judgement.
You don't believe in this Jesus "of the Bible", but I do.
Your teachings say otherwise. I believe that Jesus Christ is just as Paul preached him to be in scriptures like these:
We can only see him in his glorified flesh as
the Son of the invisible God, who he is in that glorified flesh! Studyman,
this is the JESUS of the word of God.
Lot more to say. Coming back the lord willing.