Posted on 09/27/2022 10:53:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A good analogy of the Trinity is the triple point of water. At a particular temperature and pressure water exists simultaneously as a solid and a liquid and a gas - the triple point.
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John 1
Cut to the chase. John 1:1 encapsulates it completely. If you don’t get that, then you really aren’t a Christian. All this other drivel is adiophora.
Jesus declared that he was “the light”
I interpret that as the light in Genesis 1:3
quote “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”
So light has been with God since the beginning. And Jesus is the light. Just my personal belief.
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A good analogy of the Trinity is the triple point of water. At a particular temperature and pressure water exists simultaneously as a solid and a liquid and a gas - the triple point.
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The examples you both cited are excellent, each in their own way. Jesus with God in Genesis 1, at the very beginning, and the presence of the Trinity, in water, at the thermodynamic triple point. Love it.
The dark side never learns because it already knows everything already.
He was and is who he said he is, not to be conflated with what the expert consensus committees have decided.
If the Messiah believed the settled doctrines, he'd never recognize himself.
Everything will be revealed in its due time.
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We’re in a bad state for sure.
43% of Evangelicals call themselves ‘Christians’, but don’t believe in the Christ. Idiocy reigns in the 21st Century.
‘Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.’ Matthew 7:14
Many posts here are steeped in the sixty year old wisdom of CS Lewis:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher.
He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
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Probably deluded too. 🤭🤪
Maybe we need to redefine what an Evangelical Christian is.
I would agree with that even though labels make me ill.
One day we’ll just be called God’s Children.
...or unable to do so.
There have been several revival type movements in the last 100 years.
The Jesus moment was one of them.
But, yes there has been a great falling away in the last few decades.
Lukewarm feel good preachers multiplied.
It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
There will be a great awakening culminating in a Godly surge bringing us into a great change beginning at the turn of 2022 to 2023.
Not to negate most of your post, for which I thank you.
The text from your link; Matt 7:22-23 KJV:
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Yes, I believe there will be a lot of that.
And also a lot that will return to the Zeal of their First Love.
Here’s how I see the next few decades.
• Now - The Holy Spirit renewing the unmixed Gospel of the Grace of Christ among believers around the world. Joseph Prince, New Creation Church in Singapore, and Grace Revolution Church is Dallas are major players.
o Fulfils Jude 3
• Very soon – A worldwide incoming of souls to Jesus. People are tired of the judgment and condemnation of the law which is not part of the New Covenant of grace (Romans 6:14) and will embrace the compassionate free gift of salvation Jesus offers.
o Fulfils Luke 14:22-23
• Next - The world’s ship of state, so to speak, will have been righted by the wholesale return to the Lord our God. Peace and prosperity will abound. A blessing for the saved, but a trap for those who have refused Jesus.
o Fulfils Matthew 24:38; 2 Peter 3:3-4
• Next (in a few decades IMO) – the first part of the second coming of Jesus his saints (the great “catching up” AKA the “rapture” for the church). I believe it might be as many as ½ of the world hinted by Matt. 24:40-41. The projected population of the earth in 2070 is around 9 billion. That could mean that around 4.5 billion go to Heaven and about 4.5 billion are left behind. The Holy Spirt also leaves earth.
Daniel’s 70th Week AKA the seven-year tribulation follows ending with Armageddon in the second part of Christ’s second coming followed by his coronation as King of kings and Lord of lords.
I believe this, the 21st Century, will be the most amazing century ever ending with Jesus Christ sitting on the throne in Jerusalem as Ruler over the whole world.
Is that from Mere Christianity?
As pointed out by some posting on this thread not just reading it, John 1defeines Who Jesus -The Word made flesh Who dwelt among us, named God With Us by Old Testament prophets- is.
ONLY The Righteous God could make the perfect righteous sacrifice to atone for fallen man's sin nature. ONLY God can convey His Righteousness to a sinner, to cleanse his soul/spirit. If someone claims to be a Christian but does not believe The Word, they are not what they are claiming to be. We are seeing more and more of 'them' in these last days. They will soon witness the great departure of those who believe God and have been redeemed by the Perfect Righteousness stamped upon their spirit by the only One Who can do it.
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