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I struggle with sin. I have tried to obtain salvation by obeying the Ten Commandments. But I couldn't. The Ten Commandments seem so simple.
I don't murder people. I don't have sex with other people's wives. I love my parents. I don't bow down to anything. So it seems so simple.
But according to the new Testament, it's so much more then just that. Being angry with a brother and/or holding grudges against people is murder. Lusting (which is a sin that I struggle with so strongly) is adultery; but it is also a form of idolatry. James said that friendship with this world is also adultery. It makes me an enemy of God. Being greedy is also idolatry. There is just so much that I am guilty of.
I have accepted Christ as my Lord 3 years ago. But I continued to sin. I just never understood what it means to trust in him.
But maybe if I really gave him my sin problems, he may take my sin from me.
According to the gospels, just because I have called him Lord, doesn't mean that I will enter his kingdom. Jesus said that not everybody who calls him Lord will enter his kingdom. This scares me a lot. Sin will still lead to death.
In Romans, Paul wrote to the believers and he tells them that if they continue to sin, they will face God's wrath. This is scary. And I don't know how to stop sinning. Stop sinning involves not just our behavior, but our thoughts as well.
So when I say that I am going to put my trust in Christ, I mean trusting him to help me to turn from my sin, which leads to hell.
My faith is still very week to be perfectly honest.
To turn from your sins you must first understand what true repentance is...
A ransom is paid to whomever is holding a person hostage. You believe that God condemned people, therefore needed to have Jesus pay a ransom to Godself in order to free humanity from... God. God was/is holding people hostage to condemnation unless they believe [your teachings] about God.
If you could just step back for a moment and see that what you preach is convoluted and self-contradictory. It portrays God in such a way that it holds people hostage to being afraid of the God you tell them they should love and trust.
"O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”...
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
stop purposefully maligning the truth ... Jesus paid the ransom in order to free humanity from the curse of the law
Jesus never said that He wasn't God. He had always existed as God. But from the moment of His entry into the human race He became the God-man. Fully God and fully human. Theologically, this is referred to as the hypostatic union of Jesus. In the Person of Jesus Christ there are two natures; His divine nature as God, and His human nature. There is no mixture or bleeding over of His divine attributes into His human nature, or of His human attributes into His divine nature. Therefore His humanity is distinct from His deity.
This is why Jesus could say from the standpoint of His deity, ''Before Abraham was, I am'' (John 8:58). His humanity didn't exist eternally, but His deity did.
But from the standpoint of His humanity He could say, ''I thirst'' (19:28). Deity can't thirst, but as a man Jesus could be hungry, thirsty, tired,etc...
From the moment of His incarnation Jesus was, and eternally will be the unique person of the universe - the God-man.
How many god-men were there in the history of man?...
I've already shown that the kingdom has been postponed. Your denials are meaningless.
I'm not about to waste my time on you and your continual childish, immature contentiousness. You need to grow up and stop being such a jerk. We're done.
He's a joke, leave him alone and he'll quit proselytizing in the Christianity section. Children get bored easily
He's a joke, leave him alone and he'll quit proselytizing in the Christianity section. Children get bored easily
Probably why no one sees you here often...
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God was/is holding people hostage to condemnation unless they believe [your teachings] about God.
