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Famous Church Fathers
Corrupting the Gospels
“There are some who corrupt the Gospel histories, and who introduce heresies opposed to the meaning of the doctrine of Jesus” (Origen)
“…only those persons who were concerned in the fraud should, in equity, be held answerable for it” (Origen)
…admit of various and almost indefinite readings … because “the original text of the Gospels” has been altered to coincide and substantiate the doctrines of the Gentile converts in an attempt to prove their tenets of belief.” (Celsus) Continue reading
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If Jesus is Only a Man, Then…
If Jesus is only a man, and not God as most Christians believe, then that changes everything we have ever thought about existence. If Jesus was not God and was only a man like you or me, then everything that applied to Jesus applies to us also:
- Jesus existed before this life.
- He was a spirit incarnated into human flesh.
- He was a creation of God and knew God and learned from God.
- All things that Jesus could do are possible for us also, since we also are “sons of God”.
Christians believe there is an actual place called Hell and that’s where only unbelievers go — for eternity! However, Believers also may go to the same place as unbelievers, according to Jesus. The following verse is an example of just that:
The lord of that servant (a believer) will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. (Lk 12:46)
The difference between us and Jesus, according to the Bible, is that he was the first born of God; he was just the first (not the only) to be begotten of God. The word “begotten” couldn’t possibly mean God had an intimate relation with his wife and Jesus was conceived — that is an absurd idea. But what it does mean is that he was only the first to be born of God in a metaphorical sense. That means we are begotten of God ALSO.
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