The secrets of Evangelicalism -- 6 quick points
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Originally Posted by
Russ
Genuine Christianity has nothing to hide.
Perhaps the biggest secret is that you believe God's omnipotence and sovereignty mean Christ's crucifixion, as a means to atone, was unnecessary. You believe God murdered His son for nothing.
Another of your secrets says that God was lying when He told his children to love, serve, and obey. You've told us over and over again He does not want this.
The fact that you worship the Bible and not God who commissioned the Bible is also troubling.
Your religion is about "getting" as opposed to "giving". Actually, I'm sure selfish people like this aspect.
Your religion is free-for-all the self-anointed, self appointed, no-accountability set.
And lastly, your religion was founded by the spiritual father of the holocaust and perpetuated by the sanctioning of the slave trade and KKK.
The list of things Evans hide from their converts is endless.
I could never be an Evan
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Again why did you parse this...
"He was and is the one and only God-man. Is God wrong when He declares in IS 45:
Declare and set forth your case;
Indeed, let them consult together
Who has announced this from of old?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, the LORD?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A righteous God and a Savior;
There is none except Me.
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other."
And IS 44
6"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts:
'I am the first and I am the last,
And there is no God besides Me.
7'Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it;
Yes, let him recount it to Me in order,
From the time that I established the ancient nation.
And let them declare to them the things that are coming
And the events that are going to take place.
8'Do not tremble and do not be afraid;
Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it?
And you are My witnesses
Is there any God besides Me,
Or is there any other Rock?
I know of none.'"
Rev 1:18
Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,
18and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
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---IMO, there is a huge difference between what mainstream Christendom ended up teaching, and what Jesus taught. That might be what Protestant clergyman H.E. Fos**** had in mind when he said that Christendom had gone so far astray from Jesus' original teachings, that Jesus, looking at the state of modern Christendom, would wonder if He Himself were a Christian.
While there is alot of weirdness in the church but as a whole there is agreement on the essentials and as I have heard liberty in the non essentials. Just read through what Jesus has to say to the 7 churches of Asia in the Revelation of Jesus Christ to see what He thinks about some of the nonsense.
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--Wasn't it Paul himself who said that even though there are many gods, to us there is only one God (the Father), and there is only one Lord (Jesus)?
I think JS would agree with Paul.
The verse before that which you paraphrase (not necessarily a bad thing) is:
"Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one."
He is talking to a polytheistic people, acknowledges said belief and that despite their beliefs, from the Christian point of view, there is but one God.
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---I think both you and I follow that Jesus.When He returns, both of us will say "THAT is the Jesus I believe in and have been trying to follow."
The Jesus that I follow is of IS 44, 45 above and Revelation 1 the Alpha and Omega who once was alive then dead and alive again forevermore and the monotheistic Jesus that Paul preached to the polytheistic Corinthians, which one do you follow?
Blessings and respect,
MacG