This is my one and only post on this thread.
Read:
1 John 1:9: "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness."
I suppose you could argue over the meaning of "brother," but before you do, read:
1 Peter 2:11-12: "Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us."
Judging from this verse, I don't think God ever wants us to rationalize violence on our own. It is love that leads others to Him, who is the source of love.
As far as the original question of this post, here is a good verse:
1 John 2:22-23: "Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he deinies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." Then again: "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world" (1 John 4:2-3).
I've read the Koran, and this text is very adamant that Jesus was not divine, only a human prophet (although they reject His teachings and all of the New Testament, for that matter, even though Islam claims to be a progression from Christianity). You can draw your own conclusions from this, but remember that none has authority but God in these matters.
As far as apostasy, read this verse prayerfully, please:
2 Peter 2:20-22: "If they have escaped corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of rightwousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." This is echoed in Hebrews 6:4-6.
I need not go into all of the passages in the New Testament that talk about Jesus as the only way to salvation since no one can live a perfect life under God's law--which is the only alternative for salvation.
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Whatever you do in your own personal walk in faith, do it prayerfully and mindfully. God's commandment is to love the world as He does so that others can be brought to Him through you. "Those who live by the sword will die by the sword." Hmmm.
Read:
1 John 1:9: "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness."
I suppose you could argue over the meaning of "brother," but before you do, read:
1 Peter 2:11-12: "Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us."
Judging from this verse, I don't think God ever wants us to rationalize violence on our own. It is love that leads others to Him, who is the source of love.
As far as the original question of this post, here is a good verse:
1 John 2:22-23: "Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he deinies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." Then again: "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world" (1 John 4:2-3).
I've read the Koran, and this text is very adamant that Jesus was not divine, only a human prophet (although they reject His teachings and all of the New Testament, for that matter, even though Islam claims to be a progression from Christianity). You can draw your own conclusions from this, but remember that none has authority but God in these matters.
As far as apostasy, read this verse prayerfully, please:
2 Peter 2:20-22: "If they have escaped corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of rightwousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." This is echoed in Hebrews 6:4-6.
I need not go into all of the passages in the New Testament that talk about Jesus as the only way to salvation since no one can live a perfect life under God's law--which is the only alternative for salvation.
***
Whatever you do in your own personal walk in faith, do it prayerfully and mindfully. God's commandment is to love the world as He does so that others can be brought to Him through you. "Those who live by the sword will die by the sword." Hmmm.
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