Law Keepers continue to judge the Christian by suggesting Christianity believes, teaches, that Christ abolished the Law of Moses. Did Christ abolish the Law or did Christ abolish the condemnation that accompanied the Law?
Christian response,
Jesus did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17) and Jesus fulfilled that Law in absolute perfection, something no one born of Adam’s seed could do (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12). Jesus fulfilled the Law for us and thereby negated the condemnation of the Law, a Law which only defines sin void atonement (Romans 3:20; Romans 8). The Christian, in the New Covenant, is not under Law but under Grace (unmerited favor) through faith in Messiah Jesus as God (Romans 6:14). The LAW could never save anyone as the Law mandated perfection and the Law curses all who fall short of its arbitrary mandates (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10). Jesus did abolish the condemnation of the Law for everyone who believes in Him as God, Messiah.
The “moral” aspects of the Torah remain valid for eternity but their morality is written upon the heart of the Christian by the Spirit and infused into the New Covenant through the process of sanctification. The one who trusts in Jesus as Lord receives the perfection/righteousness of the Law earned for us by Jesus and this is manifest via the imputation of Messiah’s righteousness into the life of the one who believes (1 Corinthians 1:30). Anyone who trusts in obedience to the Law for salvation is cursed (Galatians 3:10).
Law Keeper is confused concerning Jews, the Saints, access to the Kingdom, a discussion.
Law Keeper stated: “WHO ARE GOD’S SAINTS?(The Saints are the righteous and get to go to heaven) So if the law is only for the jews and only commandment keepers (law keepers) go to heaven then that leaves out all gentiles.Because only the SAINTS ARE TAKEN to heaven. Right?”
Christian response,
Commandment keepers don’t go to Heaven (Romans 3:20) because no one keeps the Commandments in perfection which is required by Law in order for righteousness (a right standing with God) to be attained through same (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10); therefore, all of mankind is condemned by Law (Romans 3:20), both Jew and Gentile. If keeping the Commandments were possible, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die for our sin (Galatians 2:21). Jesus is the perfect embodiment of LAW and its fulfillment (Matthew 5:17) and the one who trusts in Him, alone, finds grace (unmerited favor-a gift) from the condemnation of Law because the Law is powerless to save due to our sin-nature (Romans 7 & 8); therefore, Jesus kept the Law for you and for me and offers us His perfection, His righteousness, imputed into and over our life if we will trust in Him as our God who died to pay our sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3:16-18). There is no special “salvation” or dispensation for the Jew concerning righteousness; without Jesus as God and Messiah, the Jew will die in Hell just as the Gentile (Romans 3:23; John 14:6; John 8:24).
Righteousness (a right standing with God) is “imputed” to the one who believes in Jesus as God, Messiah (1 Corinthians 1:30). The Law could never impart righteousness and this is the eternal and fatal error of the Jew…they trust in, covet, boast in a Law that could never save them from sin (Romans 9:32) while simultaneously denying their Messiah who died for them; therefore, Isaiah and Paul, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaim that only a remnant of the Jews will be saved and that primarily in the last days (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Israel’s children have condemned themselves to death in Hell for having murdered their Messiah, demanded that His blood be upon them and their children; this is the blood curse concerning Israel (Matthew 27:25; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Jew, Gentile, male, female, slave, free, are welcomed into the family of God to receive eternal life IF they will humble themselves before the Father, repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ as God and Messiah who paid their sin-debt for them at the Crucifixion. God is not a respecter of persons (Galatians 3:28; Acts 10:34); therefore, if you reject Jesus as your God and Messiah in and over your life, you will die the “second death” in Hell as nothing impure will be permitted to enter the Kingdom of God (John 14:6; John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:27).
The “Saints” are the ones who do the Father’s will; that is, they believe in the One the Father has sent to die for the sins of the whole World, Jesus Christ the Righteous (John 6:29). Sainthood is not imparted by race, religion, creed, but only by grace (unmerited favor) through faith (trusting – believing) that Jesus Christ is God who died to pay your sin-debt and receiving the Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of the New Covenant relationship with the Father imputed into and over your life, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14).
So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
Question asked on FB: “How was the Earth created?”
Christian response, Many suggest the Universe was created “ex nihilo” (out of nothing) but this is NOT what the Holy Spirit has said. The Holy Spirit tells us that matter, the Universe, our genome, were created with rapidity for cause. The Spirit tells us that the Father commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) to take elements from the unseen Spiritual World and fashion those elements into matter that can be seen and apprehended by a life-form constrained by created Time and physics. The Holy Spirit teaches us that matter, Time, our Universe, were created in response to a rebellion that manifest in the Kingdom of God before the beginning of Time and that our Earth was created specifically as a repository for dealing with that rebellion and the participants in same; in fact, Jesus tells you that His Kingdom is NOT of this Realm of Time (John 18:36).
Job’s suffering has everything to do with causation for our creation and existence within Time as we’re constrained by flesh and physics. Inundating our lives and the World around us is a spiritual war that was initiated by Satan in the Kingdom before the creation of Time, the Earth and the Heavens. Satan’s rebellion is causation for the Father’s commissioning of the Son to create matter, Time, our genome (John 3:35; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).
The soul purpose for our existence is God’s Plan of defeating and destroying the works of the Devil with selfless love while simultaneously maintaining volitional love with the faithful angelic creation that did not follow Lucifer in the rebellion; unbeknownst to many, God loves these faithful angels beyond human comprehension. God demonstrated, to Satan and the faithful angels, the love of Job and the faithfulness of one-man whose life was dedicated to honoring God; in one sense, God defeated the wiles of the Devil through Job…God demonstrated the power of the Spirit in the life of the one who believes with faith and seeks to love God in obedience. The victory of Job set Satan on his heals and this obedience was a precursor to or example of the One mentioned in Genesis 3:15, the Gospel demonstrated in Genesis 3:21, who would come and “destroy the works of the Devil” for Eternity (1 John 3:8b).
Job stands as an example to every believer who resists the Devil, honors God; that obedience and victory over the Devil will not be forgotten…just as God did not forget to honor Job for his obedience and victory over the Devil via complete restoration with abundance. God will NOT forget your stance for righteousness in this wicked and adulterous generation; we are to remember through Job that our struggles are not in vain and never forget our battle is spiritually rooted not only carnal.
The Ark of the Covenant; was its construction influenced by Egyptian traditions?
Christian response,
The Ark of the Covenant, the construction of same, meticulously provided by God, is a foreshadowing of the Messiah that was to come; that is, for those who have eyes to see…
1) The gold on the Ark represented Messiah’s deity.
2) The wood represented Messiah’s humanity.
3) The mercy seat of gold where blood was sprinkled by the High Priest for the covering of Israel’s sins and the cherub angels that were positioned on each end of the mercy seat were ultimately observed in fulfillment by Mary who viewed these angels in Messiah’s tomb as the blood of Messiah stained the stone upon which He had been laid subsequent to the Crucifixion (John 20:12). Mary observed the “true” Mercy Seat.
4) Inside the Ark was a pot of manna that represented Messiah would be the “Bread of Life” (John 6:35).
5) Inside the Ark was Aaron’s rod that was a dead-stick but had budded to life representing that Messiah would be the “resurrection and the life” (John 11:25); Messiah would die and resurrect to life to defeat death, Hell, the grave, the Devil, for all who believe.
6) Inside the Ark was the Decalog etched in stone representing that Messiah would have the Law of God internalized, He would be the Law of God in flesh and its ultimate fulfillment (Matthew 5:17).
In conclusion,
God, in many ways, meticulously and carefully pointed the children of Jacob to their Messiah yet they failed Him, they missed Him, they did not see Him, they denied Him, they murdered Him. Please, do not take part in this eternal error; trust in Jesus as your God and Messiah, exclusively, and LIVE!
A denier of Messiah’s deity stated: “God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law. I don’t ever recall hearing this preached in church.”
Christian response,
Jesus was first prophesied to enter the World from the virgin seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15 to do battle with the Devil and destroy the works of the Devil as pictured in Genesis 3:21 and explained in 1 John 3:8b. No “man” could perform this task; therefore, God entered Time in flesh (Colossians 2) and fulfilled the Father’s Plan of defeating the Evil One with selfless love and thereby provide redemption for sinful mankind; sin that was first introduced by the Devil (John 8:44).
This Plan mandated absolute perfection in word, thought and deed; man is a sinner (Romans 3:23) therefore, the God-man via the hypostatic union, Jesus our Messiah, lived a sinless life and fought for and earned your redemption in His perfection (2 Corinthians 5:21). Messiah’s perfection was made possible by the union of God with the virgin seed of a woman, not the seed of Adam.
If you reject Jesus as God and Messiah over your life, His work on the Cross will not be imputed as atonement for your sins (John 8:24); the Father has set-forth the parameters and mandate by which you must be saved (John 3; John 8:24); that is, believe in the One He has sent (John 6:29)…Jesus is God (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1; Colossians 2:9); therefore, if you don’t see this, if you don’t understand this, you are not born again of the Spirit and if you’re absent the Spirit, you are not redeemed by the innocent blood of Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14). The redeemed in Messiah KNOW that Jesus is God in flesh and they worship Him as same. It is this eternal Truth, Jesus is God and Messiah, that separates the Christian from every religion, cult, sect, on the face of the Earth.
Question asked concerning evolution/creation the human genome and purpose?
Christian response, Jesus Christ, God, in conjunction with the Father and the Spirit, created the human genome on the Sixth-Day and formed mankind, a spiritual being, into His own image and imparted certain communicable attributes to human kind that are integral with/to God.
Mankind was created in response to a rebellion that had manifest in the Kingdom before the creation of Time and matter; mankind, created in God’s spiritual image, plays an intricate role in our God’s dealing with evil, the Evil One and the angels that followed him in the rebellion.
The ONLY reason God has endured the depravity of human kind for 6000-years is in response to His desire to demonstrate the horror of evil and the repercussions of disobedience while maintaining volitional love with His faithful angelic creation whom He loves beyond human understanding. In the beginning, God created them male and female and this mystery has not evolved but was “created” for cause with rapidity.
The Father’s Plan is summed-up in the appearance of the Son who destroyed the works of the Devil through selfless, sacrificial, love; life in eternity with Jesus Christ is granted to all who believe that Jesus is God who died to pay their sin-debt, a debt they could not pay themselves (John 3:16-18).
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
What ETERNAL TRUTH separates Christianity and the Christian from every religion, cult, sect, in the World today?
Why is Christianity different, unique, among the religions of the World? Christianity recognizes, acknowledges, proclaims, the ETERNAL TRUTH that Jesus Christ is God, Creator, Messiah, Judge, having manifest in flesh within the realm of Time via the hypostatic union (Philippians 2:5-11). Christianity acknowledges that mankind is unable to earn salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16; 3:10), eternal life, but only by trusting-believing in Jesus as God who died to pay our sin-debt is mankind justified, forgiven of sin, before the Father (John 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10). Jesus is the unique, only begotten, Son of God, coequal with the Father and the Spirit, eternal, everlasting (Hebrews 1); Jesus has and will dwell among mankind and it is Jesus that has made the Father known as the Father is Spirit (John 1:18; John 4:24; 6:46; Matthew 11:27).
Be warned,
Anyone who denies Jesus is God who entered Time in flesh to atone for the sins of the World will not enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24) as the Holy Spirit testifies of this truism; if anyone is absent the Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), they are not redeemed, they remain in their sin, they will NOT enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5; John 8:24). Jesus is God and the redeemed know this, believe this, trust in this, because the redeemed are God’s children and the Spirit of Truth (John 16:13) has sealed them with the Covenant of Promise, forever (Ephesians 1:13; John 10:28-30).
Every Jew; every child of Jacob, take heed of this Truth lest you not be named among the remnant (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Every Muslim – Islamist, Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon, Buddhist, Atheist, be warned, unless Jesus Christ is your God and you believe with a sincere heart that He alone has made atonement for your sin via the Crucifixion, you will NOT enter the Kingdom of God subsequent to the death of your body in Time (John 14:6; 3:16).
Life and Purpose in Time? What is the purpose of life constrained by Time and physics?
The most relevant and all-consuming question in the life of a man or woman is: “Do you believe that Jesus Christ is God who died to pay your sin-debt, a debt to God the Father that you could not pay yourself?” How one responds to this question will determine whether or not their life within the Ream of Time is lived and ultimately culminates with purpose and glory or nihilism and futility. With all of our cares and concerns in this life, the only subject truly worthy of ultimate consideration is the primary reasoning for our existence in Time; that is, our relationship with the One who created us and created this Universe for cause with rapidity i.e. Jesus Christ our God.
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