[Phoenix;154645]So in the many areas of doctrine where Christendom is split in half, each side thinking the other side is the counterfeit, how does Christendom decide which is the real money and which is the counterfeit?
I am wondering what you mean by counterfeit? Wouldn't that mean false Christianity. That MUST be a group that calls it's self Christian but refuse to submit to God's instructions.. Maybe a group that teaches some other means of salvation than the simple message of God Grace activated by simple faith in the Jesus described in the Bible..
Do you know how the US Treasury teaches people how to distinguish a fake bill from a real one? They don't show them fakes. They immerse them in the real thing.. Day and night the study what make the real thing, real.. The Bible does show us the REAL Jesus, His REAL salvation. Only those immersed in the lies would have trouble not seeing the truth, even looking hard for it.. Jesus gave it to us in John 3:15-16.
John 3:15-16
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So with the words of Jesus teaching so simply so completely the way to Life why would anyone tell themselves that people get different messages from the scripture?
So in the debate over Pre-trib vs. Post-trib, infant baptism vs. don't baptize infants, Calvinism vs. Arminianism, modern musical instruments for worship music vs. a capella or old-time instruments only, women teaching men at church vs. no female teachers, what is true and what is fake? And what did the Christians who believe the fake doctrines do wrong?
Doctor Walter Martin is the reason I have decided to be post-trib. His doctring on that point was "I am Post-trib, I hope I'm wrong".. In case you have trouble fully understand the significance of that statement It says that the timing of the tribulation DOESN'T matter at all to our eternal life and our place in the household of God. That is made certain when a believer confesses Jesus as their Lord, their savior, and their God.
If salvation is by God's grace through faith in Jesus then anything we do, and I mean anything, be it baptism, singing in unison to a piano, believing that there is no male or female, bond or free in Jesus is not the way to life.. The WAY is Jesus, the truth is Jesus, the Life is Jesus.. Having faith in Him points the way through that truth to Life.. There is nothing else that matters.. NOTHING..
Mormonism has named a fictional being of it's creation Jesus. It has taught that this invention is a God.. The Father became a God far earlier than Jesus.. No one I know in mormonism can explain who in their per-existence the Holy Spirit was.. But He also became a God sometime after the Father was already God.. The mormon prophet came up with that idea of how God became God and actually said that there are three Gods not one.. How do you know if he was right or lost in a polytheistic falsehood? Immerse yourself in God's truth, His word. There you will find teachings that God is One Lord.. That there was no God formed before or after God was God.. The truth is there, all the truth. You don't see it because you will not look. IHS jim