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no verses in the scriptures will tell about personal relationship with God
Adam and Eve had a personal relationship with God in that he physically walked with them in the garden of eden and spoke to them. Various other biblical characters heard his voice and experienced his presence in a variety of ways. Jesus said when we pray we should refer to him as Our Father (Dad) and said he himself said he would be always with us and where one or two are gathered in his name he would be there. The bible talks about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as in a bit of Gods presence inside our very soul. That sounds like personal relationship to me.
I think the personal relationship bit is about treating God as someone we want to get to know, who cares about us and wants to guide us to be the best we can be (like a father, teacher or friend), as opposed to some abstract remote force. We should serve God out of love as opposed to blindly following religious ritual.
I think that Messianic Judaism is the proper way to follow Christianity. The reason I say this is because messianic judaism follows the laws of the old testament.
That is an interesting idea, although according to the New Testament, the non-jewish Christians did not have to convert to Judaism (the early church did have some disagreements about this until the matter was was sorted out by Paul).
Indeed yes, Judaism has it's own good traits, but Paul said that It doesn't matter how you show your religion, it's that you have the religion, nothing else really matters.
i'll be the first to say that salvation is a free gift of God and that finding your way to the cross is pretty simple; but Christianity itself isn't easy, it's a struggle for survival at times.
Many in our world have watered down the gospel (good news) to fit there own personal tastes. We as believers have an obligation to Keep the integrity of the Word of God absolutely intact...without error.
Doctrine (the truth of God) is very important to Him. All throughout the bible, God warns of false teachers and prophets because He wants each person to know Him for who He is...the truth, not what people are saying or their opinions about Him.
There are many in our world today that are being slaughtered by the thousands because they refuse to change with the times and to give up what they know to be true about Jesus and Gods ultimate plan for the world.
i'm probably just re-affirming what you as a believer already know...but just in case there may be others, we can know many things about God; but not know Him.
Very nice paper.
Only through surrending, repenting, and receiving Yahushua (Jesus) into your heart-life that you will be forgivened and saved. Seek for the Kingdom of Heaven before all else. Make your reservation in Heaven this very moment. Commit yourself to Yahushua.
Is that so? Pray tell where you find that in Torah or the Prophets.
You need to believe that Jesus is God almighty, the Creator(ref john 8:24, 1 john 4:1-3)
Numbers 23:19 Godisnot a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
The OP should have also added that before confessing our faith to the Lord we need to repent which is turn away from sin. We need to acknowledge sin for what it is - rebellion aganist God. We need to be totally done with ourselves and come to the cross stripped down to nothing and then HUMBLY confess to the Lord that you bieleve and trust in Him.
On that day you will be lavished with God's love and grace - for all eternity.
Life is short, 80 years on earth vs an ETERNITY in the heaven or hell....choose today how you will spend it.
One problem I see in your essay is that it wouldn't do much to convince someone who doesn't accept the Bible as true. If I have my doubts that the Bible is the word of God that essay isn't going to convince me of the existence of God or that he wants me to do anything. I don't think it's possible to know whether or not the Bible is the word of God so I don't find your essay very convincing. People who believe the Bible is God's word accept this on faith, there's no proof, so without that faith there's no reason for me to accept anything the Bible says as God's truth.
One problem I see in your essay is that it wouldn't do much to convince someone who doesn't accept the Bible as true. If I have my doubts that the Bible is the word of God that essay isn't going to convince me of the existence of God or that he wants me to do anything. I don't think it's possible to know whether or not the Bible is the word of God so I don't find your essay very convincing. People who believe the Bible is God's word accept this on faith, there's no proof, so without that faith there's no reason for me to accept anything the Bible says as God's truth.
That is a point. Remember though that the bible consists of many books. Do you doubt all of them or are there some of them you would consider true?
Any essay on Christianity must refer to the bible. Without the bible we would be left adrift. We can debate the existance of God without it, but how can we discover what he is really like or what he wants of us without a point of reference. How do we know what is true and real in relation to God. Without the bible we end up following our own whims and feelings whatever they may be at the time and however right or wrong they are.
Great job 
Christianity made easy? 
i'll be the first to say that salvation is a free gift of God and that finding your way to the cross is pretty simple; but Christianity itself isn't easy, it's a struggle for survival at times. 
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