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The Kingdom of God: Grace vs Works Part 1
There are really only two themes in the New Testament about salvation: Grace and Works. When contradictions arise surrounding these two, there will be those who will try to make interpretations to try to explain away the facts, they make … Continue reading
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Tagged agree, born-again, building blocks, contradictions, darkness, discrepancies, exist, first, foundational block, good works, grace, hell, incomprehensible, interpretations, last, lifetime, Nazirenes, not both, opposite, Origen, reincarnation, righteousness, salvation, Substitutionary Atonement, Way of life, will of his Father, works
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The Kingdom of God Not Exclusive
The Kingdom of God Is Not Exclusive to Christianity Jesus held that people from all over the world and from many different religions would enter into the Kingdom of God. Christians think that their religion is exclusive in that their … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and Isaac, body of Christ, Buddhist, Christian, Exclusive, hell, inclusive, light, Muslim, non-believing, perish, reincarnation, religions, repentance, savior
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The Kingdom of God Part 1
Discovering the Kingdom of God I could never quite understand what the Kingdom of God was, where it was, or how one entered there, until I removed so much misconception that I had about Reality. Believe it or not, it … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, blindness, born-again, Christianity, Critical Reasoning, ditch of delusion, falsehoods, flesh and blood, harlots, hell, kingdom of God, Logic, NDEs, neighbor, perfect, perfection, poor, real Truth, reality, reincarnation, repentance, research, salvation, scientific method, Substitutionary Atonement, suffering, truth, worthy
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Manipulation Through Fear
Why Does Fear Exist? Fear is a natural emotion designed to act as a means for protection in this physical world, from dangers and ultimately death. Man is the only creature that has an awareness of his own death and … Continue reading
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged Belief, control and manipulate, crucifixion, death, eternal salvation, execution, eye-witnesses, fact, false, fear, free pass, good works, grace, heaven, hell, imaginary, impossible to prove, incompatible, irrational, learning experience, lies, lifetime, Purification, reality, reincarnation, righteousness, salvation, stress, tools, truth
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Incompatible Reincarnation
People who have had an NDE experience, say their lives are completely changed. I have never seen a testimony of any experiencer that did not believe in Reincarnation — whether or not they believed in it before, no matter what religion they were before or whether or not they even believed in God. For them, Reincarnation is not something they must believe “by faith”, but a reality that they have seen, experienced and remember. More importantly, many near death experiencers have been shown short views of past lives. Continue reading
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Tagged another chance, Christianity, hell, incompatible, NDE experience, passed lives, reincarnation
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Fear
Jesus promised: “Ye shall KNOW the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free” (Jn 8:32) Paul promised: “That IF thou shalt BELIEVE in thine heart that God hath raised Jesus from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Ro 10:9) … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, control, dead, death, deceived, deserved, eternity, evidence, exclusivity, fact, fear, good works, grave, hell, imagination, impossible, knowledge, lie, manipulate, obligation, proof, righteous living, salvation, speculation, spirit, truth, will of God
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The King That Was No King Part 2
In part 1, we saw that Messiah, King of the Jews was arrested and captured, treated as a common criminal, tried and falsely convicted of sedition, sentenced to death by a very cruel execution — crucifixion — and left for … Continue reading
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Tagged apologists, Bethlehem, born-again, commandants, contradictions, criminal, discrepancies, Egypt, escape, executed for sedition, false prophecies, forgeries, hell, impossible to reconcile, inconsistencies, inerrant, Jerusalem, Jesus' birth, Jesus' Genealogy, Judah, king of the Jews, Levite, Magi, make the story stick, Mary and Joseph, Messiah, military, misinterpretation, Nazareth, nursed back to health, Pauline Church, purging and perfection, Rapture, Romans, ruler, sedition, sentenced to death, shepherds, stable, throne, weapon
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If there is no Hell
I don’t believe that Hell exists. But IF it did exist, I know there would be millions of Christians there. The reason for this is because Jesus declared that only those who are righteous and do works of righteousness are allowed entry into the kingdom of Heaven. (Mat 25) According to Christology, if one is not saved he/she goes to Hell for an eternity. But where did this idea originate from? First off, how would one get saved to avoid the horrible fate of Hell?
According to “Paul’s Gospel” we are saved by God’s grace and mercy and not by works of righteousness which we have done. (Tit 3:5) And Paul also said, you are saved by grace through faith, and not of our works. (Eph 2:8-9) What’s more, not only is there the requirement that one believes in Jesus, but also one must believe, in his heart, that God raised Jesus from the dead (Rom 10:9) — even though it is extremely unlikely that he even died.
On the contrary, Jesus said that one must “keep the commandments to enter into life”. (Mat 19:16-22) Jesus equated perfection with giving all your riches to the poor. To enter into the kingdom of heaven, to Jesus’ disciples, that is what it meant to be saved (Mat 19:23-25). In a nutshell: It’s impossible to be saved unless you are righteous, do works of righteousness and give up all your worldly riches — plus doing the will of God (Mat 7:21, Lk 13:25).
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Tagged Christology, commandments, hell, punishment, Purification, reincarnation, riches, servant, unbelievers, unsaved
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Believe On or Believe In?
What is the difference between Everlasting Life and Salvation? Or is there a difference? Why are these terms different for the same concept? Or are they the same? I guess to most people, they could care less. However, if they have the same meaning then there is a great contradiction here.
If they are different, then there is something here that we haven’t seen before. It’s not a wonder most people don’t study and try to understand the bible for themselves, it takes a bible scholar with a doctorate degree to understand some of it. So people just leave the interpreting to the guys with the credentials and accept what they have to say as God-sent truth.
According to Jesus, Everlasting Life is obtained by keeping the commandments and doing good works. According to Paul, salvation is merely believing and one cannot be saved by good works which we have done, but belief only is “accounted” for righteousness. Apparently, salvation is being saved from Hell. The concept of Hell is foreign to the Bible. Maybe this is the reason Jesus preferred to use the term eternal life.
This is a direct contradiction of a basic concept. To make things more complicated, Jesus says in one of the gospels, “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” So in this place it seems that Jesus is agreeing with Paul in that all you have to do is believe. Weather or not he actually said those exact words is a different story.
But then in other places he says clearly that you have to keep his commandments and do good works to enter into life. What is one to believe? It’s not a wonder that people leave it up to the clergy to get their truth.
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Tagged believe, contradiction, dishonest, do good works, everlasting life, facts, forgery, hell, keep his commandments, know, lie, Prove, salvation, Trinity, untruths
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