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To: Faith Presses On

“God’s Word teaches that rather than having perfect oneness with Him, we’re spiritually separated from Him and can only be reconciled to Him through believing on His Son, Jesus Christ, which means acknowledging ourselves to be sinners deserving of Hell and that only by God’s grace towards us, in Him giving His Son to atone for our sins, are we saved.”

Perceiving that we are separate from God as we are asleep is quite different than being separate.

You exist on the planet earth even though you do not perceive the entire planet while standing at one location on it.

However, if you raise up to the space station you can now see the greater picture. So it is when we awaken and raise up in Christ.

This comment also explains the concept of rapture or being raised up.


19 posted on 05/20/2018 2:10:56 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

What do you believe about Jesus Christ and the Christian faith? That would be helpful to know. From an article discussing what have been called the Five Fundamentals of the faith:

1) The Bible is literally true. Associated with this tenet is the belief that the Bible is inerrant, that is, without error and free from all contradictions. (And I’ll add too that the Bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit).

2) The virgin birth and deity of Christ. Fundamentalists believe that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary and conceived by the Holy Spirit and that He was and is the Son of God, fully human and fully divine.

3) The substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross. Fundamentalism teaches that salvation is obtained only through God’s grace and human faith in Christ’s crucifixion for the sins of mankind.

4) The bodily resurrection of Jesus. On the third day after His crucifixion, Jesus rose from the grave and now sits at the right hand of God the Father.

5) The authenticity of Jesus’ miracles as recorded in Scripture and the literal, pre-millennial second coming of Christ to earth.

https://www.gotquestions.org/fundamentalism.html

So what do you believe about those statements?


21 posted on 05/21/2018 9:24:01 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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