Hi francus,
Blessedly, you are not the judge. Whether or not one or the other of us needs to be saved from ourselves is going to depend on which one of us knows the truth. I'm confident that you are likewise confident that I am bound in 'chains of strong delusion' because I am not in agreement with you that Jesus has already come. That's OK with me. It isn't your truth that I seek, but God's, and His only. Yes! Truth is and miracles do happen.
God bless you as you seek for Him.
In Christ, Ted
i appreciated the tenor of your post.
Yet i am no longer a "seeker for Him", for "i was lost but now am found, was blind but now i see", yet i evermore "grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Immanuel The Messiah and Our FATHER and GOD"!
Have you seen "The Light"?
Unless one has receives "a love of The TRUTH", Yes! more than their own life, they yet abide in the blackness of darkness that is of this evil world and/or religion's way.......
"The Word of Our FATHER and GOD"....... "Let There Be Light"! (Genesis 1:3)
"Our FATHER and GOD(HE WHO IS LIGHT)" spoke The Word "Let There Be Light!", and "there was Light"! (I John 1:5, Genesis 1:3)
"And The Word(logos) became flesh and dwelt among us"! (John 1:14)
The Messiah, Immanuel(GOD{SPIRIT} with us IN The Messiah), He IS "The Word(logos) of Our FATHER and GOD(HE WHO IS LIGHT)"! (I John 1:5)
The Messiah, "The Light of the world"! (John 1:9; 8:12)
The Messiah, "The Beginning of The Creation of Our FATHER and GOD"! (Revelations 3:14)
The Messiah, "The Firstborn of ALL Creation"! (Colossians 1:15)
The "Light", "The glory The Messiah had with Our FATHER and GOD before the world began"! (John 17:5)
TRUTH IS! "LIGHT Begot Light"....... (Genesis 1:3, I John 1:5)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2010/06/let-there-be-light.html
Yet the worldly and/or religious ones, liken unto the pharisee's of old, have not "seen The Light" that is The Messiah, and so it is they yet abide in the darkness that is of this evil world and/or religion's way! (John 3:19; 7:7; 8:12, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 4:1-4)
Simply, they have never REALized what "Pure Religion and Undefiled" IS! (James 1:27)
For "Pure Religion and Undefiled" is not a system but the Active Faith of those who have been "Born Again" of The Holy, Set Apart, SPIRIT! Those "sons of Our FATHER and GOD" who have their portion !NOW! in HIS Family, of "WHOM the whole Family in Heaven and ON EARTH is named".......(John 3:3,7, I Peter 1:23, I John 3:1-2, Philippians 2:15, Ephesians 3:15)
"A Household of Faith" indeed and TRUTH! (Galatians 6:10, Ephesians 2:19)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html
Simply, ALL other religion IS "IMPURE and DEFILED"!
And Yes! Atheism (self-worship) is a religion as well, for atheists see their version of a god ("I", id, ego, self, pride) each and every time they view their reflected "image"!
Yet because of pagan catholicism and her harlot christian daughters, and their "imag"ined 'jesus', "The Way of TRUTH is evil spoken of"! (II Peter 2:1-3)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/08/who-is-this-pagan-catholic-and.html
"Come out from among them and be separate!" (II Corinthians 6:17)
ALL religion.......
Seek and desire to have your portion with The Messiah IN and OF “The LIGHT" that IS “Our FATHER and GOD”! (Acts 26:18, I John 1:5)
“Children of LIGHT” who have received "a love of The TRUTH so that they might be saved" from their own ("I",ego,id,pride) self! (Luke 16:8, John 12:36, Ephesians 5:8, I Thessalonians 5:5, II Thessalonians 2:10-13)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-1st-day-of-creation-genesis-11-5.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2010/08/let-there-be-light-john-11-5.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-1st-day-of-new-creation.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/08/messiah-true-light-which-enlightens.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-needs-receive-love-of-truth-to-be.html
Once again, "Our FATHER and GOD" spoke HIS Word into being, ""Let There Be Light!", and there was Light"....... (Genesis 1:3)
And Immanuel, (GOD{SPIRIT} with us IN) The Messiah, testified "I am The Light of the world!" (John 8:12)
"He that believes The Messiah, Immanuel, is not condemned, but he that believes Him not is condemned already, because he has not believed in The Name of the Only Begotten (Spiritually and in "the likeness of sinful flesh") Son of Our FATHER and GOD." (Genesis 1:3, John 3:18)
And "Joshua" is the right and proper natural birth (in the likeness of sinful flesh) name for The Messiah in today's english, for He and Joshua (Yahshua) of the old covenant were given the same Hebrew birth name! (Romans 8:3)
Sadly, the "imag"ined name of 'jesus' is but the transliteration of the pagan latin catholic name 'iesus'. A name pagan catholicism and her #1 harlot christian daughter (the aptly named "church OF england") gave to one head of their "imag"ined three headed pagan god(s) less than 600 years ago!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/08/name-of-messiah.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-is-author-of-confusion.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/08/who-is-this-pagan-catholic-and.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-there-name-or-title-greater-than.html
John 3:18-21 - "And this is the condemnation, that The Light (destined to be The Messiah) has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than The Light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that does evil hates The Light, neither comes to The Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that does TRUTH comes to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in Our FATHER and GOD." (John 3:18-21, II Thessalonians 2:10-13)
The Messiah, Immanuel, "The Light that enlightens every man born into the world"! (John 1:9)
And "Our FATHER and GOD", HE IS LIGHT! And The One HE Anointed (aka: The Messiah), was HIS First and Only Begotten Son, "The Beginning of The Creation of Our FATHER and GOD"! (I John 1:5, Colossians 1:15, Revelations 3:14)
"LIGHT Begot Light"! (Genesis 1:3)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2010/06/let-there-be-light.html
"And you at one time abode in darkness, but now are you Light with The Messiah, Immanuel! Walk as children of LIGHT(Our FATHER and GOD)!" (Ephesians 5:8, John 12:36, 1 Thessalonians 5:5)
Seek and desire to have your portion !NOW! with The Messiah in The Family of LIGHT!
Which IS "The Family of Our FATHER and GOD", "of WHOM the whole Family in Heaven and ON EARTH is named"! (Ephesians 3:15)
"A Household of Faith" indeed and TRUTH....... (Galatians 6:10, Ephesians 2:19)
And NEW "Jerusalem which IS above IS Free, and IS !NOW! the mother of us all (children of Our FATHER and GOD, children of LIGHT)"! (Galatians 4:26, Luke 16:8, John 12:36, Ephesians 5:8, I Thessalonians 5:5)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-of-faith-or-system-of-religion.html
So it is we choose to remain but "aliens and pilgrims while on the earth" for we have REALized that our "citizenship(Life) IS !NOW! in Heaven"! (I Peter 2:11, Hebrews 11:13, Philippians 3:20, Ephesians 2:19)
So you, if you are a "Born Again son of GOD", let your Light shine, for soon, and very soon, “the children of LIGHT”, those brethren of The Messiah yet on earth, are taken Home, Home at last! (John 3:3,7, I Peter 1:23, John 12:36, Ephesians 5:8, I Thessalonians 5:5, John 14:2-3)
Till then:
HOPE IS! There would be those who would “see” The Light that is The Messiah, Immanuel! (John 8:12)
For TRUTH IS! Unless one see’s "The Light” they are easy prey for the religious ones (those who carry on he legacy of the pharisee’s) who abide in "the darkness that is this evil world"! Those who but carry on the legacy of the pharisee's because they "love their own life in and of this world"! And so it is they are "friends of this evil world"....... (Ephesians 6:12, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, John 12:25; 7:7, Galatians 1:4, James 4:4)
And "whoever is the friend of this world is the enemy of Our FATHER and GOD"! (James 4:1-4)
"Be not like them......." (Matthew 6:8)
"Come out from among them and be separate!" (II Corinthians 6:17)
And as "children of LIGHT" abide in The LIGHT that IS "Our FATHER and GOD"!
Thankfully those who have seen "The LIGHT", have REALized how "poor and in need" of Our FATHER and GOD they truly are, and so it is we "cry unto HIM day and night"! (I John 1:5, Psalms 70:5; 72:13, John 20:17, Luke 18:7)
Evermore sounding and resounding a Declaration of Dependence:
FATHER Help!
HE DID! and HE does......
So Peace IS! in spite of the dis-ease (no-peace) that is of this evil world and/or religion's way....... (John 14:27; 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 1:27; 4:4, Philippians 4:7))
ALL Thanks and Praise Be Unto Our FATHER(TRUTH, CREATOR, GOD, SPIRIT, LORD, MASTER,,,,,,, ALL IN ALL That Which IS Truly GOOD)!