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Bible Study Cower and Hide

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Cower and Hide
Revised from a previous post due to additional and important information!
(Hint:Who Will Be The Antichrist)

Eventually a christian will meet up with an atheist harboring their usual demonic and anti-religious hostility who will demand evidence that Jesus Christ, if he actually exists, is in fact sinless. The question demands that Jesus Christ somehow produce evidence of his sinless nature apart from any blind trust that is propagated through the usual weak expository doctrinal preaching.

The atheist's negation efforts at discrediting the notion of Jesus Christ's sinless character, which is the cornerstone of a Christian’s belief, and trust, in his own salvation, supposes that there is no way to in fact know if Jesus Christ is indeed sinless, but there is!

The proof that Jesus Christ is sinless begins in the Garden of Eden where it is written that God appeared in the Garden just after Adam and Eve had sinned but had to go looking for both of them. Of course both Adam and Eve were cowering in fear of God and hiding themselves now that they were full of sin. The main point to realize is that once a person is full of sin they will seek to cover it up and hide themselves as best that they can whenever in the presence of God.

If Jesus Christ, upon dying and being resurrected to stand before God in heaven, were in fact actually full of sin he too would act like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and cower and hide himself when in the presence of his sinless father, God. But that didn't happen!

Jesus Christ is both sinless and blameless, and while he took upon himself the judgment of all of man's sin on the cross by dying, he emerged from death victorious and sinless and was able to stand proudly before God his Father, sinless, without having to cower and hide himself like Adam and Eve as if he were in fact sinful.

So there is a way to determine forevermore that Jesus Christ is sinless and deserving of all of our trust in effectuating our salvation by seeing him sitting on his throne in heaven and not hiding behind it. By believing in Jesus Christ his sinless nature is extended to all those who trust and believe in him so that his faithful, upon finding themselves in the presence of God - Jesus Christ, will not cower and hide but be able to stand before him and offer our worship of God by voluntary knelling before him and not having it forced upon us by our sin. A sinful person will be knelling before God in heaven but without ever having the ability to rise again!

If you don't want to spend eternity on you knees, hiding from God in hell, then just believe in Jesus Christ and receive the forgiveness of sin that his death and resurrection made possible. Then you too will stand before for God in heaven to be receive your reward instead of knelling and cowering in hell along with all of the other unforgiven, and unforgivable, lost souls! Don't wake up in heaven one day finding yourself on your knees unable to rise because you missed your chance to accept Jesus Christ's offer of forgiveness by just believing in him!

God Bless
note:
It must be remembered that since Jesus Christ retained his human form upon his resurrection, Jesus Christ now can show for eternity that he remains sinless. If anyone tried to bring an accusation against Jesus Christ, who is God, that there is no way to know if Jesus Christ is truly sinless the proof is that he stands before God the Father without cowering or hiding, this reflects his continued sinless nature and removes all doubt that Jesus Christ, hence God, is truly sinless.

When one considers that our faith and salvation is from Jesus Christ, God become man, than it is easy to see why so many people become hostile and violent to our presence. Since a believer in Jesus Christ has the indwelling Holy Spirit it is as if we carry God around with us throughout the world and those who are still unsaved will feel the presence of God and will seek to either cower and hide in his presence, or try to chase the believer away to relieve themselves of the torment of trying to hide from God (our indwelling Holy Spirit) like Adam and Eve did after they sinned in the Garden of Eden.

Also consider that God became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ so sinful man could approach God without cowering and hiding. Which is another reason why (among other reasons) mankind had to leave the Garden of Eden because all he would be doing is cowering and hiding from God.

Additionally a Christian’s own sinful flesh will try to cower and hide whenever the christian preaches for our sinful flesh will ALWAYS make a christian, with the indwelling Holy Spirit, feel uncomfortable whenever he preaches the gospel!

If anyone wants to know why God uses man's own words and writings to express God's voice then consider that if we actually had God's own words, then as sinful people, we could not bear the torment of its Holiness and we would cower and hide in its presence like Adam and Eve did! Thankfully God allowed man to write down his Holy Words in man's own word so that we may approach it without cowering or hiding from it!

Consider that the two tablets of stone that Moses brought down from the mountain, bearing God's Ten Commandments, were written in stone by God himself and therefore had to be hidden from us in a container called the 'Ark of the Covenant'. If man actually looked upon those tablets with God's own handwriting man would be tormented and would cower and hide from them because of the tablet's Holiness CONFIRMING our sinfulness.

Additionally, imagine a sinless God having to use our language, that we use for all sorts of evil such as; novels describing pornography, evil slang, deceitful political speeches, television and movie dialog featuring sex and violence, to convey his (God's) sinless nature! This fact is another reason why God has man write down his words instead of God doing it directly himself!

Our language has been so corrupted by our sinful flesh that Jesus Christ writing down his own Holy words in our language would be like forcing someone to write down their thoughts using sewer waste matter. Which is why Jesus Christ NEVER wrote anything down because our language has been so corrupted by our sinfulness that Jesus Christ HAD to rely on others to keep record.

Jesus Christ must have HAD a phenomenal memory which would be a trait of his deity. That same trait MUST be a trait of the antichrist. If anyone wants to know who the next antichrist will be they must look for a person who never writes anything down but remembers EVERYTHING!

While it is written that Jesus Christ did draw something in the sand, was it only to prove that he had the ability to write (or draw) but refused to use that ability due to mankind corrupting the language and using it solely for his sinful desires. I believe that the moment Jesus Christ wrote something in the sand all the other people began to cower and hide from it because it was so Holy- like God's writing on the Tablets of Stone in the Ark of the Covenant! That is why the crowd, who were about to stone the woman for adultery, dispersed willingly, eagerly, and without hesitation!

Amen – Jesus Christ Is Lord!
 
While it is written that Jesus Christ did draw something in the sand, was it only to prove that he had the ability to write (or draw) but refused to use that ability due to mankind corrupting the language and using it solely for his sinful desires. I believe that the moment Jesus Christ wrote something in the sand all the other people began to cower and hide from it because it was so Holy- like God's writing on the Tablets of Stone in the Ark of the Covenant! That is why the crowd, who were about to stone the woman for adultery, dispersed willingly, eagerly, and without hesitation!

There is quite an interesting teaching about this event in John 8 and why the scribes and Pharisees did as you say, "cower and hide".
The scene took place in the temple courtyard which was paved with stone. Jesus, bent down and with His 'Finger' wrote on the stone, not once but twice. As was common for Him, He taught much in parables. This action was rather like that. In doing this He was alluding to the 10 Commandments written the first time by the finger of God and to a second time God wrote.
The first tablets were destroyed by Moses in a fit of anger when he discovered that the people had committed adultery against God under the supervision of their High Priest, Aaron. The tablets had to be written again a second time.
By Jesus writing the second time on the stone in the second temple He was reminding them about the 10 and the adulterous acts committed and God's judgment. God had written another time in judgment against Nebuchadnezzar when he used the vessels of the temple for his concubines. So Jesus was telling them that God was judging them. "You who are without sin, cast the first stone." He was also alluding to the fact of His deity and His authority to write a judgment against them.
 
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