Now, before you charge one with something they have not said, be more careful in your reading.
My apologies, but it was not meant as a 'charge'... I am no judge , nor have any desire to be one ... just here to discuss , and it is easy to make mistakes in understanding folks in this medium on the subject matter which can only largely be alluded to, never proscribed, much even ineffable...
Only God's people can receive the truth.
that's a tautology [in reverse], the Truth of Love makes God's people...
The natural man, he that is not born again (who is, by the way, indwelt by God, not awaiting this blessed event)...cannot understand the spiritual things of God.
as Jesus says, all will accept him one day... the natural man can become spiritual by just the three baptisms... Jesus came to save sinners, not condemn them... so you might deceive yourself less by appending 'yet' to your statements:-
Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Only at one time in the natural man's existence will he understand, and that is when the Lord convicts that person of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He will receive the truth and be saved, or he will reject it and be damned.
again, 'damned' is a mistranslation and an insult to God who judges fairly, justly, who is ready for translation, who needs more persuasion before they perfect Love in life...
Both results are said in scripture to be eternal.
Again demonstrably a mistranslation ... there is no eternity of the physical , no infinity of time, and the spirit is endlessly teh same , not bound in time [which the spirit creates and thus is wholly independent of, separate from]
Actually, I don't. I know that there are insertions and scribal errors, dealing primarily with marginal notes, but don't confuse this with editing.
I'm afraid you are mistaken ... suggest that you check the source materials to see ... there are no two 'source document copies' which are the same except tiny fragments with one or two words on them... that is a concrete undeniable sign of editing THROUGHOUT scripture... but what is even worse is the mistranslation that makes every version of the bible DIFFERENT , but even the known errors are still copied because of tradition of men , because religion cannot ever accept that it is in error, of Satan, not inspired by God's ONE Truth , which would of course unite all religion ...
Take a book, such as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (chose a short, easy one). Put ten men in a room and have them copy it. Then, compare.
The chances that there will be mistakes is a given, for man is prone to error. The chances, however, that all ten men will make the same mistake in the same place is, however, is next to impossible, if not impossible. Now, by comparing these copies the chance that you will be able to reproduce the original are very, very good.
a very poor analogy , as anyone who has examined the doctrinal CONSISTENT nature of the errors would see straight away ... fortunately the word of God is resiliently Love and so scripture itself reveals the errors by simply treating it as a whole... something all traditions of men fight viciously against doing , even torturing and executing even saints who will not conform if simple fake 'excommunication' doesn't do the trick... frankly the history of it is obscene and very far , opposite from, the Love of God...
The scholarship that those that reject scripture is about as trustworthy as the fox promising to watch over the hen house and to keep them all safe.
well most of it is , but there is nothing to stop a saint explaining God's Truth ... and it is nothing like any religious tradition of sinners , which traditions all have their own versions of scripture and simply ignore all the scripture which speaks against their private interpretation , pushing their revised words set in place instead of the Truth of God [of the original scripture and the original meanings and allusions in the original language]
Or better yet...the wolves promising to "enlighten" the sheep.
simple logic PROVES that DIVIDED religion is false , as at most one 'interpretation' of scripture even could be TRUE and men disagree right down to individual beliefs they call 'faith' ... that means the whole world is deluded by religion , as Jesus says will happen -Rev 13:3-4 - and he even gives us the figures [Rev 7:3-8] which work out at about two thousand following Jesus at any one time... [confirmed in Jude 1:14] ... one in three million alive today, and the rest sinners following Satan, not Christ , but many of them saying they are following Christ [as sinners , even as 'sinner priests ' ,an oxymoron... a sinner cannot be a priest ... yet we even have paedophile sodomites as mock priests today... and they defended by the hierarchy of their priesthood all the way to the 'top' which is a man or founder , in place of Christ ['antichristios'] ...as Jesus says he will lead his church of saints ALWAYS , he never gave anyone any role as leader of his church in his place... so the evidence is written in countless different versions of scripture and none of them tied to the original by any saint ever ... and only a saiint of God [not the fake one's ordained by sinners] , baptised of the spirit, would know ... no amount of words or fake authority of 'scholarship ' can restore the original scripture ...nor is there any need, for all who are of God are taught directly by God ... Jesus never had anything written down for that very reason :-
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
religion is thus just a load of hot air conveying Satan's deception that he is the God of men, that one can sin all one's life and be saved effortlessly just by saying one has faith that he is God ... a fake Christ...
As for me, I trust that God has preserved His word, even as He said He would.
You are mistaken, God never said any such thing about the written word , else we should have the ORIGINALS and all copies would be identical and all translations would be the same in sense at least ...
Do I take this on faith? Of course.
the faith of this whole world is in Satan according to Jesus -Rev 13:3-4 , only about one in three million alive today escape the delusion of mass religion [finally united in worship of a fake god, a false Christ , witha false gospel , fake new covenant, unholy days in place of God's memorials to His Plan, sinner priests over large congregations of sinners, hu8ge cathedrals and fancy churches full of gold and idols and riches whilst the poor starve in misery to death , 50,000 a day , mostly the very little children Jesus said men would hurt only at their great cost in woe]
Do those that do not believe scripture to be valid also take it on faith that they have the "truth?" Of course.
fake argument my friend... you simply assume the answer and then regard it as true... deceiving yourself, but not me... there are about two thousand alive now following Jesus who know the Truth from God Himself directly ...they indeed know the fakery of scripture by mass religions for sake of not admitting the mistakes and being discredited... but what is amazing is how few even read scripture and use it to see through the lies...
Every man will for himself decide on this, and every man alone will be judged for that he has done in the body according to the knowledge he possesses. I at least, do not have to worry that one day I will stand before God and find out...it was not His word.
Let us instead try a few objective tests of what you claim [hoping I have not misunderstood or made a mistake again in this]:-
Mark 14:9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever
this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Do you understand the real gospel ? Was this ever preached to you before today so you understand what the Christ is by the true gospel ?
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
so count with me , how many
nights between Good Friday and Easter Sunday [in any and all calendars /systems of mankind's perverse timekeeping systems] ?
now look at your CANON ... and read your bible to find out how many books it authorises as scripture which are not there [about twenty ]
so if you believe the bible you have is the canon, you are deceived by Satan, it simply is untrue... proving that ANY religion which claims that the bible is the canon of scripture is of Satan...
there are many more valid PROOFS in scripture, I just mention a few here in case your mind is open...
And I'm happy to meet you too.
4 of the 6 theological schools taught Universalism. But when the Catholic church disagreed they not only killed 'the heretics' but I assume, tried to destroy all of their teachings. That only makes sense doesn't it?
