I agree that the man Jesus Christ is the sole unifying factor for the entire Bible.In case it wasn't obvious from my last post, I should have summarized it by saying that Christ alone is the sole unifying factor for the entire Bible
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I agree that the man Jesus Christ is the sole unifying factor for the entire Bible.In case it wasn't obvious from my last post, I should have summarized it by saying that Christ alone is the sole unifying factor for the entire Bible
I agree that the man Jesus Christ is the sole unifying factor for the entire Bible.
Sorry - the man? Not sure what you're getting at? Do you not believe that Jesus was man, God and Saviour, all
at once?
Neither am I but if Jesus was not man, God and Saviour, then neither can there be salvation.Heck no. Why would I believe that? I'm not Catholic.
Romans 10:9Neither am I but if Jesus was not man, God and Saviour, then neither can there be salvation.
What is the basis you believe someone becomes saved?
So, then you're saying that you do believe that Christ was both man and God? For clarity, a simple yes or no will do if that's okay with youRomans 10:9
NoSo, then you're saying that you do believe that Christ was both man and God? For clarity, a simple yes or no will do if that's okay with you
Hmmm, okay, then what Christ do you believe in? You referenced Romans 10:9, right? 10:9 is about Jesus, isn't it?
Believing Jesus is God also demonstrates disbelief in his own words when he made statements such as “my father is greater than I” and when he prayed to the Father as “the only true God.” The Father has the unique and singular position as God, and should receive all the worship, credit, respect and awe that He deserves as the One True God. Jesus Christ has the unique and singular position to receive all the worship, credit, respect and awe that he deserves as the man approved of God—the only-begotten Son of the Father.
It is much simpler and easier to trust only in Scripture to understand the way, truth, and life of Jesus Christ, and not lean to our own understanding in trying to 'figure things out' in our own minds.All unrighteousness is sin.
This is a very theological statement. What is righteous is and what is not is not clear in a definitive sense.
Is this what you are referring to?
Jesus was man, the Word, and Savior.Neither am I but if Jesus was not man, God and Saviour, then neither can there be salvation.
What is the basis you believe someone becomes saved?
And the Word was GodJesus was man, the Word, and Savior.
Amen.And the Word was God
[Jhn 1:1 KJV] 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The block between man and God is sinning against God by lust within the heart. We must first see sinful acts where they begin, so that we repent spiritually, before repenting bodily."Until the sinning stops, neither does the unrighteousness. No man is counted righteous and justified by Christ, while still doing unrighteousness."
This is slightly confusing to me. The block between man and God is the lack of seeing sinful acts as sinful and destructive and the need to repent and change.
Paul was bewailing double heartedness in Romans 7, but only acknowledging the ongoing spiritual warfare of all men in mortal flesh in Philippians 3, which Jesus also fought unto the end on the cross.The point of salvation is repentance not perfection, because if perfection was the case Paul was never saved.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Phil 3:12
Exactly true, which is why just having an unwanted unrighteous thought, is not sinning against God, unless we take it to heart to lusting for it.The whole story of the temple and sacrifices in the temple is that perfection is not Gods requirement to approach Him but repentance and the desire to change. He will deliver the fruits of change to a heart that desires this righteousness as Jesus puts it.
We are Gods workmanship not our own. We are as Paul describes slaves to righteousness, our hearts cry out to us to walk this path, to know the light and dwell in it. We are not afraid of the emotions of the heart because the heart sings praises to Christ for the cross, bows the knee in wonder at this infinite love that would bow down and call us friends.