Hi Phat,
Phat writes:
And that brings up another honest question. Can it be that the Creator of All Seen and Unseen be so limited as to communicate with me only through these scriptures?
Sure God can speak to you in other ways but you have to be listening.
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19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Science has a problem with how the universe is held together. They have spent many year and a lot of money trying to figure out how it is held together.
So they eventually came up with Dark Energy and Dark Matter which make up 95% of the universe. Dark Energy being 70% and Dark Matter being 25%.
More is unknown about these than is known. It has to exist or the universe would fly apart.
What is it? Not a clue.
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1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Jesus is the Energy that holds the universe together.
God has given us a book that has the truth in it. We have to study it and let the Holy Spirit lead us in all truth as Jesus said He would.
Phat writes:
Why would people have an evil agenda now and yet Moses and the early writings have a pure agenda?
Who said all the early writers have a pure agenda?
Moses recorded what God gave him as did the other original writers.
The problem arises when people copied the trexts and then copied the texts and copied the texts etc.
People have biases and they show up in what a person understands a text to say. Thus they insert their biases in what they are copying by saying that is not what the orginal says.
Look at all the different Bibles that have been printed in the last 20 years. You should get the idea from that.
Phat writes:
I only ask questions to further understanding of God --perhaps He can use you or others at EvC to enlighten me..?
I am glad to see you are still searching for the truth and I pray that you find it.
Phat writes:
I used to believe in salvation by Grace and profession (and repentance) yet began to question the reality of this once I saw how many church folks that had been saved (myself included) that continued making the same willful sins and dumb decisions that they had before the washed-in-the-blood experience
Salvation is by grace and grace alone as no one deserves it.
If you could earn it so as to deserve it Christ would not have had to go to the cross of Calvary and give His life a ransom for mankind who is separated from God.
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Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Your good deeds will not save you as jar teaches.
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Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
You seem to have a miscomception of what being washed in the blood of the Lamb involves.
It seems you think it is a religious experience in which a profession is made and one is baptized and then goes to work in the church.
It is an experience of one coming face to face with Jesus and realizing we are a sinner separated from God with no means on our own to gain entrance into His presence. When we realize that and accept it as a fact then we can accept the offer of a free full pardon that was secured for everyone by the Lamb that was slain on Calvary.
The pardon is there available to everyone.
But a pardon is not in effect until it is accepted by the one it is offered too.
The following text puts it best.
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3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Verse 18 sums it up pretty good, when it tells us "he that believeth is not condemened". Believing = trusting in God to do what He says He will do.
He then says man is condemned already.
So if you have not been born of the Spirit of God you are condemned.
Then he gives the only reason mankind is condemned. "Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God".
It does not say mankind is condemned because:
He has not joined a church.
He has not been baptized.
He has not done good works.
He has not been faithful all the time
He has not paid tithes.
He has not had some great religious experience.
He is a sinner.
He never helped anyone.
He is from the wrong side of the tracks.
etc.
Man is condemned simply because he does not believe in Jesus Christ and trust Him to give him eternal life like He said He would do.
So anybody that tells you they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb and they do not follow Jesus is telling you a lie.
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John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
There is no room in that for a person to not follow Jesus if they belong to Jesus.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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