At least you have faith in yourself.
This whole time it's sounded to me like he's been teaching against faith in oneself.
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At least you have faith in yourself.
I am a follower of Jesus and I believe "faith without works is dead"... not faith is counted as righteousness. Sidon was probably not talking at you.
Well, that's good-we're here to develop a hunger and thirst for righteousness in a world that so sorely lacks and dismisses and opposes it in so many ways-and we have the image of God impressed within us even in a fallen state-and creation, itself, appeals to our reason, as a "motive of credibility" as its called, proclaiming the reality of a Creator. But the Creator whom Christ reveals is still beyond our natural ken, which is why He needed to come: that advent, itself, being an act of grace.I do not believe that "God must first come to and move us-we're lost." From my earliest tiny-child memories I wanted to know who made: Insects... and the plants they crawled upon. Birds... and the skies they flew in. Me... and my family that worshipped nothing. The Creation of God drew me to Him. The Love of God saved me for Him. The Law of God keeps me there. Because I hunger and thirst for true righteousness... not the borrowed kind. The councils of man add nothing to me. I believe the talents are the word of God. The smaller the understanding, the less the talents.
Yes, I'm sure you're well aware of his prophecy. But I think Paul affirms it too:Jesus is pretty much quoting Jeremias right here:
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be (ginomai) fulfilled.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This (genea) generation shall not pass, till all these things be (ginomai) fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
It's not my business to accept or reject what belongs to the gentiles.
And I don't need the gentiles' approval of what I believe.
I don't think that John is complete without Matthew and James and the Revelation... and the gospel called Mark as preached by Peter is verifcation of Matthew. I believe John 17:20.
Luke says many things that the pupils of Jesus never said. I don't read him.
One witness doesn't establish anything, according to the Law.
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep My word, he shall never see death.
(sigh) You didn't even write that post to me...
But your calling the words of Jesus "dark light", is completely... without grace.
Like I said, you keep trying to mix the two gospels together,
like you think they're epoxy and resin ..... when really, they're oil and water.
But the good news is, you might finally be starting to realize that this is true.
In Galatians 2:15, Paul's not right at all when he says Peter's like him.
(1) Peter is of the 10-tribes of Israel, not of the 2-tribes of Judah like Paul.
(2) Peter was taught the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven by Jesus who came "only unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel".
(3) Paul says that Peter's under Paul's gospel. But this cannot be true because (a) Peter was told to speak what Jesus spoke Matthew 28:20, which he did John 21:18-19 and (b) Peter went to the circumcision not the gentiles Galatians 2:7-9.
Could it have been Peter who was teaching what Paul called "another gospel" aka "the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven"? We know that Peter was in "Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia", 1 Peter 1:1... Isn't Peter the logical choice for the spreading of this "another gospel" Galatians 1:6?
Two Very Different Gospels
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
John 14:15 If ye love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 17 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
They're not epoxy and resin ..... they're oil and water.
Its pretty obvious that your theology is not connected to the Catholic Doctrine, or to Mainline Protestant, Theology.
So, are you a JW or a Mormon, as real Christians do not park and preach against Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament.
But you do.
Just so you know...
The "Gospel" was completed by Christ on the Cross, when He said..>"it is finished", long before any letters written by Apostles showed up.
And that includes "the greek text".
Salvation, is God on the Cross, that "pre-dates" any church, any doctrine, any theology, any "epistles" any Pope, or any Protestant..
Finished? All that was necessary for Jesus to literally become
the Passover Lamb slain before the creation of the world.
The original Greek is in (parentheses)...
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be (ginomai) fulfilled.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be (ginomai) fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
Ginomai is "generated", according to Strong's.
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now (teleo) accomplished, that the scripture might be (teleioo) fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to His mouth.
19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is (teleo) finished: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.
That this scripture might be fulfilled:
Exodus 12:21 And Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, Go away and take to yourselves a lamb according to your kindreds, and slay the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and having dipped it into some of the blood that is by the door, ye shall touch the lintel, and shall put it upon both door-posts, even of the blood which is by the door; but ye shall not go out every one from the door of his house till the morning. ... 26 And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service? 27 that ye shall say to them, "This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as He defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses."
This text proves that hyssop was needed for the service of the Passover.
Jesus came to fulfill all that was written of Him concerning His first advent.
Matthew 26:12-13 For in that she hath poured this ointment on My body, she did [it] for My burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
This ointment is (myrrh). Myrrh and Frankinsense came from the wise men of (anatole) [Greece literally called Anatolia "the east"]... Smyrna, one of two blameless churches in Asia (anatolia), is (Myrrh). Frankinsense is (libanos), translated Lebanon.
Well, it involves what we've been discussing continuously. As a rule, anytime we think we already know, we're not open to grow in knowledge; anytime we think we can see, we don't open our eyes further. And we think this of each other.
If the preaching of the Cross seems "divisive" to you, then check your Salvation.
Jesus said that the enemies of the Cross, will be found in your own family.
So, is it a marvel that they are found on a Christian forum, infecting it, ruining it, so that a new Christian needs to stay away?
There is your reality check.
I did more then read it. I studied it and discerned it.
So, let me explain your verse you posted, so that the readers can see it..
James said, to the believers ....."faith without works is dead".
Then James says this, teaching them what he means..
"i will show YOU , MY Faith, by my works'. = spiritual "fruit".
See that?
Why did he say that?
Because when faith is real vs, stagnate and cold, then your life reflects it, as "works". "fruit".
Amen!
This whole time it's sounded to me like he's been teaching against faith in oneself.
I'm curious, though... By what God-given right do you dismiss any of the denominations and call some "real Christians"?
What do you have against the Pelasgians of Greece?
Did they write something you want to claim as your own?
People, whether in denominations or not, define it -according to their understanding and interpretation.
I never stated or insinuated that the Cross seems "divisive." I said you are divisive. You see again how you keep misrepresenting others.