Sunday, May 22, 2011

Didn't Jesus say that all believers should embrace each other and everyone else's belief's too? So when Christians don't they are haters right? There are many paths to God right? Don't we all worship the same God?

The short answer is no.  If you are a real Christian you believe the whole Bible is true, that Jesus is God come in the flesh and his blood was shed when he died on the cross in your place, and you do not worship the same God as "everyone else".  

Our God is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.  The Jewish Messiah was Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) and He fulfilled the prophecies perfectly.  Jesus said that the only way to the Father is for you to believe that He the Messiah, that He is God made flesh and that he offered Himself as a sacrifice in the place of each of us as individuals (Jesus flesh was the final blood sacrifice to God the Father, the third part of the Trinity of the personalities of ONE entity known as "God",  because this is required for redemption because He said) .  We are born as sinners (everyone is, you had no choice) because of the sin of Adam in the Garden in the book of Genesis. Their gods are pagan gods, and Allah falls in this category. 

Jesus was not just a man and a dutiful child of God.  He was God.  Here are the scriptures proving that He is God: 
Jude 1:25, Isaiah 49:7, John 17:11, John 8:58, John 10:30

A real Christian believes that Jesus as deity came in the flesh to become the final sin offering (back to Himself as God the Father) so that when we die or are taken by Him, we do not have to be separated from God.  Those who reject this are the ones who will be forever separated from Him.  The scriptures that reflect this tenet from the Bible are found in 1John 4:1-6.  We believe anyone who doesn’t think that Jesus is deity is from a spirit of antichrist.  This is what these scriptures say.  To believe the Bible is the Word of God, you can’t pick and choose the scriptures you want.  You should accept and embrace all of scripture, or reject it.  But chopping it up is destructive and is at the root of false prophets and the errant teaching found in cults.  The apostle John is telling us here how to recognize a true Christian from one who is not.  This is why we reject certain people’s beliefs who say they are Christians.  These people fall into that category: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Masons, Chrislamists (those who want to merge Christian beliefs with Islam), and anyone believing himself to be Christ returned to us – because when Jesus returns the second time, you will definitely know it.

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.


Jesus Christ come in the flesh from God indicates that something from God other than a man is clothed in flesh.  This is deity.

This is the collective interpretation from the eariest Church fathers, and all the modern commentaries and theologians.   My references are the KJV version of the Holy Bible, the Geneva Study Bible c. 1560, the Scofield Reference Notes, c.1917, Mathew Henry's Commentary on the whole Bible c. 1706, Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament , John Darby's Synopsis of the New TestamentCommentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible by Jamieson, Fausset and Brown 1871.

Be VERY wary of anyone adding or subtracting from the Old and New Testaments.  This is what a cult does.

Anyone who takes an allegorical view of the scripture, tends to pick and choose the scriptures he/she believes.  This is very dangerous, because essentially it boils down to calling God a liar if you don't take everything he says in this book literally. 




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