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I can't get away with maternity parking.........Exactly, and one tempting just like handicap or maternity parking today.
sure sure... they were all available they proved itNo. There were many fruit trees in Eden. All but one were freely available to Adam and Eve.
you wouldn't buy this today why do you think a guy named peter would believe it if you did the same things without the jewish slang and mythology either present or inherently interpreted by you today??I like to go to Phillippians to review the steps of Christ's humbling of Himself to save us.
[Christ] Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped,
But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men;
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross.
Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:6-11)
Yes, and standing tall and majestic amidst them all - the Tree Of Life. One bite - instant immunity to death. Pretty fair deal, eh?sure sure... they were all available they proved it
yeah they wanted to live that is why they ate... sorry.. tears and tears of death... from starvation or GodYes, and standing tall and majestic amidst them all - the Tree Of Life. One bite - instant immunity to death. Pretty fair deal, eh?
Unfortunately, they chose self-godhood instead and bought the lie. Just like God warned, death entered in.
Having already prepared a Solution in such an eventuality, God drove them out of the garden so as to prevent them then partaking of the Tree of Life, in their sinful state, thus guaranteeing eternal separation from God and any hope of redemption.
Each of us have a similar choice before us. The difference is that we have inherited the sinful nature, so in essence have already partaken of the Tree of Death.
The solution? Die to self and partake of the flesh and blood of our Savior - Jesus Christ.
Waiting for the Redeemed in Heaven? The Tree of Life again.
Brilliant plan, eh?
Not freely. They paid a hell of a price for disobeying God.sure sure... they were all available they proved it
I wouldn't be here unless somebody screwed upNot freely. They paid a hell of a price for disobeying God.
There is a lot packed into this question. Its rather filled with unbelieving doubt about Jesus.you wouldn't buy this today why do you think a guy named peter would believe it if you did the same things without the jewish slang and mythology either present or inherently interpreted by you today??
Not only a miracle birth God accomplished. But for thirty years God as a man lived in a dispised town apprentlythe miricle of birth...
not to complicate things here...There is a lot packed into this question. Its rather filled with unbelieving doubt about Jesus.
This Person is unique and in a class of one. His work and unique.
I "buy" it because I met and know this available Person the Lord Jesus Christ.
He became in a form in which He can mingle, unite, and blend with my innermost spiritual being.
In resurrection He became a divine ife imparting Spirit to bond with my human spirit.
He is available to me as "a life giving Spirit" - Christ. The last Adam, Jesus Christ, became a life giving Spirit.
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. (1 Cor. 15:45)
This life giving Spirit is a mysterious yet totally real Person who gives God into man.
He gives Himself into man that the reborn comatose human spirit is enlivened and joined to Christ as "one spirit".
That means a part of my being is mingled with God.
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (1 Cor, 6:17)
Not only a miracle birth God accomplished. But for thirty years God as a man lived in a dispised town apprently
so well with other people He created no particular stir. That is until the age of thirty. Then He opened His mouth in the
ministry and works that His Father gave Him to do. And the result has been catyclysmic on human history.
Such a One is available to us today. I mean today.
This sacrifice you asked about makes it possible to know as one knows no other fact, that he or she is
in a life relationship with the Father. That is because of His redemption the human spirit becomes divine life because
of righteousness (which we didn't have). The comatose and deadened human spirit becomes God's life because of righteousness.
But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. (Rom. 8:10)
I have experienced this. Have you experienced that you have this Person living in you?
Do you know that God is available to us as the resurrected man who also became a life giving Holy Spirit?
Concerning His resurrection He said -
Yet a little while and the world beholds Me no longer,
but you behold Me; because I live, you also shall live.
In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (John 14:19,20)
To really live is to have Christ living in you in a blended and mingled way.
All His sacrifice was to accomplish this for the eternal purpose of the Triune God.
Yes.not to complicate things here...
you say you met Jesus, because your "inner spiriit" can mingle with , unite, and blend.
Yes. "Life giving Spirit" is a Jesus giving Spirit. Jesus can be given to us.then mention ressurection... and something about Spirit and spirit.
"Life giving Spirit" could be defined coherently or not and it just serves as a distraction in the context of your claim of meeting Jesus to me... as if you share in the same experience as those at the tomb who proportedly saw Jesus for the first time or twice such and such.
that aside...
This is not a word salad. But it is in a divine and mystical realm. Let me say more about John 14.you and I both know there is more to a person than we can percieve, and Jesus being a person fits that narrative for me.
If I saw my friend live through what he lived through is irrelevant to me meeting him years after his ordeal wether I understand it fully or not.
that being said I see your comments as "qualified" word "salad" for a lack of better words to use.
am I to engage in some dispute or should I just dissmiss your assertion, or prima faice accept your claim?
Yes. I have a hobby of setting the bible verses to songs.is that your video?
in recolection Spirit is breath to my understanding based on what I have read in the biblle.
That is why they were confident that Jesus was dead noting that his Spirit left him, that all intents and actions were over.
Then a few days later he got up and went somewhere.
Yes. Absolutely it was expedient for them and for the Triune God and His eternal purpose."expedient for them"?
Without the understanding of what Christian is I'm finding it difficult to qualify myself as non Christian
That is a good analogy sir. It has happened to me, where I get this gut feeling that something I am about to do is wrong, and I change my mind. Sometimes God puts in a pang of feeling into us to prevent us from straying down the wrong path.The preaching of the gospel is like when you are on a boat in the middle of the seas, when the radio says that there's tornado coming toward your location. It boils down to why you have to believe what the radio says and make a run. What determining factors would make you realize that it's a truth.
That being said. Christians are those believed to make their run. At the subconscious level, they reckon the "voice" of the Shepherd to determine that what being preached is a truth, in the same manner as how the on the boat making his decision.