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Awesome Post......it's too bad some will never get it.
At least they will have something to think about in the spirit world when all they have believed will come crashing down upon them and they find that all those material beliefs were wrong. When they are forced to look within, my words will come to the front and they will soon follow the Law of Love.
Jesus represented the Incarnate Word many times. People felt misunderstanding for the world around them as a changing situation different than anything we'd know of today.
But Jesus could be quoting from the Future; and modern day Jesus's exist too.
To answer the OP....yes I did (when I was a believer) question what I believed against (what I thought was) the word of god. I believed what the church would say about god being a loving being. Then I actually read the bible at home and found otherwise.
I question my religion as well as what is in the Bible. My religion opposes abortion at all cause, gay marriage. My religion requires confession (to a moral priest) which I am against. Are there people out there that believe the Bible 100% cover to cover? They don't question any of it? Who are these people? I would love to be one of them. I am a lousy Catholic but I am trying.
I typed a reply to a person's post in another thread. But then the Lord led me to start my own thread on this very topic.
Unfortunately, many people don't even question what they believe and why. They just go along with their religion's status quo. For me, I had to study bascially every major doctrine that was disagreed upon, even among christians, to see where my Baptist faith stood along the line of interpretation of Scripture. For me, the book Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem was a godsend simply because he took all of the major biblical topics and allowed the reader to investigate their beliefs...........
So in other words you exchanged one doctrine you were uncomfortable with for another doctrine you were comfortable with.
Genesis 3
The Fall of Man
Eve was not comfortable with this doctrine
"We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden
Eve was comfortable with this doctrine
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
The atoning sacrafice is living in the Divine as Jesus did. He sacraficed His material life in order to become one with God. That was His sacrafice. Not once did He deny who and what God was the way that people often do. He showed a God of Love and not barbarism that the OT portrays. If you love God and each other, you will give up on all the material things of this world. It's not mandatory, however, when walking with God, material things do not matter.
Jesus showed the way for the whole world and the whole world should learn from His own experience. His life is a guide to live in the way that He did. Make your own story the way that He did. Live in Love and make sacrafices the way He did. Be in the world without be of it.
When you walk in the light of God, that message will make more sense. His body was not the sacrafice, His life and the way He lived was. Death isn't the message, life is.
I typed a reply to a person's post in another thread. But then the Lord led me to start my own thread on this very topic.
Unfortunately, many people don't even question what they believe and why. They just go along with their religion's status quo. For me, I had to study bascially every major doctrine that was disagreed upon, even among christians, to see where my Baptist faith stood along the line of interpretation of Scripture...............
So in other words if we believe different from you then we are not fully grasping scripture and are just a mindless followers of religious tradition.
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It can be re-explained as:
