@MickMilee The Christian religion says he is God. The scriptures do not. The Christian religion is replete with people who are biblically illiterate. Jesus died. God cannot die. Hence, Jesus cannot be God. He is God’s only begotten son, and he is the image of the invisible God.
Why would that be? Wasn't the death of Jesus Christ for our sins sufficient, or was it conditional. I don't see anything in Paul's gospel (1 Cor 15:1-4) that would indicate that his death for sins was conditional. His gospel was a proclamation, not a proposition. Jesus said, "It is finished," referring to his work. He didn't say, "I've done my part, now you do yours."
@JoshuaLWatson What Jesus said there isn’t even relevant to Gentiles (for the most part). It was only for Israelites. Jesus later gave Paul a new Gospel to share with the nations, as discussed here: https://t.co/3IF129DrG0
The apostle Paul and Jesus Christ both reject John Piper’s false teaching on what happens at physical death. If what Piper said were true, Paul would never have called death an “enemy” as he did in 1 Cor 15. And Jesus wouldn’t have told Nicodemus that no man has ascended to heaven except himself in John 3:13. If what Piper said was true, there would be no point in resurrection. Additionally, there is no scriptural evidence of any disembodied souls frequenting any afterlife destination. And no, Luke 16:19-31 isn’t proof … it’s a PARABLE!
I love you. I love you so much I can feel it in my skull. I love you so much I can feel it in my crown. I love you so much my love has a sound. Manifest sweetly for you, dear one, kindly my love abounds.
I find it weird that Infernalists and Annihilationists still exist when Biblical Universalism has been definitively and irrefutably proven from Scripture in the free https://t.co/3IF129DrG0 eBook, but I have to remember that not everyone has read that whole eBook carefully yet.
Ray, your Jesus, the one you claim in your website's statement of faith, is not the one of the scriptures. You say Jesus is the eternal God. There is no evidence of the eternality of the Jesus of the Bible. You claim Jesus is God, when scripture tells us he is the image of the invisible God and the son of God. Jesus died, and you affirm that, but God cannot die. Hence, he cannot be God. You claim he "rose" from the dead, as if he did it himself. The scripture says his Father roused him from the death state. Your Jesus is a different one from the Jesus of the scriptures, and, most importantly, you don't believe that Jesus took away the sin of the world. He failed miserably in accomplishing his stated task which was to save the world, not to judge the world.
No, Michael, "Christians," for the most part, ignore or disbelieve Paul, just as you do. His epistles are the only books of the Bible that were written to Gentile believers. All the other 53 were written to Israelites. Paul wrote of the utter success of the finished work of Jesus Christ who said he came to save the world. The vast majority of people who call themselves Christian believe that he failed to save the world. Paul believed he did.
Literally every single Christian who read all of https://t.co/rPloHM48de and got back to me told me they couldn’t refute it and that they’re now Universalists too, confirming that Christians who aren’t Biblical Universalists haven’t studied Scripture particularly carefully.
Right after the “let us make man” verse, the Bible says:
Book of Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his image.”
Notice: created (one person acting) and his image (not their image). If it was multiple persons, it should say “They created man in their image.”
But it doesn’t. Full stop.