What was Jesus really supposed to do? What did he come for? What did he do? What did he get out of it? The questions about Jesus and his life and deed are many and different. Christianity's ABC is about Jesus Christ, as he is the red thread through the Christian faith.
What was Jesus really supposed to do? What did he come for? What did he do? What did he get out of it? The questions about Jesus and his life and deed are many and different. Christianity's ABC is about Jesus Christ, as he is the red thread through the Christian faith. In fact, the word "Christian" is merely a derivative form of Jesus' title-Christ.
A gift
Many people have come to the conclusion that the core of Christianity is a message of charity, a form of humanism and a series of more or less reasonable rules of conduct. I would like to postulate that the core of Christianity is a completely different matter. Christianity's core is a gift offered to all people who will accept it. A gift offered to all, not just the religious, not just the Christians, and not just morally nice people, but all! Let me try to explain.
Man has been divorced from God
"Show me God, I will believe in him" have people told me. But I can not pull God out of his pocket and show him to them. "Is God really a HAM?" "Or is God a term for something undefined - a cosmic force?" Yes, is there any God at all? Perhaps you are convinced that there is a God, but how is he? - You have not seen him either. All these comments and questions show how we, as humans, have been divorced from God.
God has gone away for us. We can not see him. We can not even go and greet him. We can compare the situation between God and man with the experience of two people who are on either side of a deep gap in the foggy weather. They may sense that the other is on the opposite side. But the fog prevents them from seeing the other, and the gap is blocking the road. In the relationship between man and god, it is all our mistakes that make up the gap. If you are honest with yourself, I think you know the mistakes in your life.
Things you could wish you had done differently. You did for example. something about your neighbor, your parents, siblings, spouse, children or friends who ruined something in the relationship between you. A hard word, an egoistic act or maybe you just "forgot" them. But there was something that broke down. Of course, they also made mistakes to you, but it does not change your mistakes. Christianity calls these mistakes for sins. The word sinner describes that our mistakes also affect our relationship with God. Our sins divorce us from God.
You can not save yourself
Many people try to get over the gap to God. We see in many religions where people through religious exercises, such as meditation, try to reach the divine. Or when people believe that a good moral life will satisfy God. But man never reaches his own efforts over the gap. For just a single mistake, divide. The Great Belt Bridge would not benefit much if there was a single subject. The bridge must be full to work.
How is God?
It may sound hard that just a single mistake separates you from God. But it is God's righteousness that is expressed here. The court is at its fullest. Fortunately, God has a loving justice. Not a cold justice. Therefore ...
Jesus built a bridge between man and God
God's immense love for man forced him to act. God sent his own son Jesus to build a bridge over the gap. This website is a definite result of this action from God. The turn of the millennium is in the western calendar of the year 2000, after the birth of Jesus in Israel in the city of Bethlehem. Jesus, with his life and his existence, had to bridge the gap between God and people. Jesus claims that the one who saw him has seen God. Then you want an idea of how God is, so study how Jesus is described. The culmination of Jesus' life in Israel was that
he was crucified just below the capital of Jerusalem, on a hill called Calvary. Physically, he was crucified with two criminals accused of violating religious laws. He was crucified by the Roman occupying power, but on the basis of accusations of the religious elite in Israel. At the end of the slow and cruel death of the crucifixion, Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why did you leave me?" Jesus saw here the gap to God. He was no longer with God. But the special thing was that he was divorced from God not because of his own mistakes, but because of the misery of all men.
He paid the price for us. He had no sins himself, but was charged with all our sins. Through Jesus' death for us, a bridge is built over the gap between people and God.
Believe in Jesus
Therefore, man and God now have the opportunity to meet again. You can come to God by making use of the bridge. Specifically, believing in Jesus. The belief that Jesus is dead for your sins is to compare to crossing the bridge in the drawing. You must therefore be free to believe in yourself, free to fulfill a certain amount of morality free of all possible religious efforts. On the other hand, Christianity's ABC tells you to be allowed to count on what Jesus did for you. Going over the bridge is to be saved. Being saved in the Christian sense is by no means better than others. But it's trusting someone else did for you.
Liberating. The last word of Jesus on the cross was: "It is accomplished". The work was done. The bridge was complete. The red string has been cut over, the bridge is inaugurated. I hope you understand what gift you are offered here .....
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Thank you for the "ABC's of Christianity" and your presentation of the Gospel.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
Originally, mankind was supposed to be the image-bearer of God. That image was marred by sin and man was separated from God.
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? John 14:9
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Colosians 1:15
Jesus came as the "Last Adam" to both restore mankind's relationship to God and to restore the marred image of God by His perfect life and character.
Thank you!
You're very welcome. May God bless your richly for your desire to edify the body of Christ and your heart to present the Gospel to the lost.
Excellent post! Thank you for sharing
My pleasure!
Nice content, expecting more great post like this! Keep it up@bibizzle
Thank you!
This is a the truth. God is God. He is the way, the truth and the life. He who believes in him is saved.
Amen
Is Jesus a God?
Let me introduce you a book instead of just saying that Jesus IS GOD - "The Case for Christ". This book was written by Lee Strobel, who was once an atheist, and started to do intensive research on who Jesus really is back when his wife became a Christian. He used to work as an editor of the Chicago Tribune, and did cross-examines with a dozen experts on this subject :) You will enjoy this.
I believe in God, I believe in Jesus but all I wanted to ask is HE A GOD? Thanks for the opinion anyway.
Yes sir.
He is who he claimed he is. On top of it, also look at His disciple, their reaction before and after, and how they were even willing to give up their very own lives for the sake of the Jesus and the gospel.
I hope you can really find the truth and put your trust in Jesus for what He has done for us, while we are still a sinner.
Yes I do @stepbie. Anyways, thank you for giving me such a nice response. :)
You are welcome! Everybody needs to start somewhere on this journey of faith, and knowing who Jesus is - is the foundation of Christianity. In the past 2,000 years people have been trying to disprove the Christian faith and they still fail to.
I think you first need to see if Bible is even real.
Second: see what Jesus claimed himself to be, and then to see whether or not he lied, or whether or not he was crazy, or that He is really who He claimed to be.
Third: you can see how His disciplines' changed after they claimed they saw the resurrected Jesus - their lives changed upside-down! From the original 12, or even 11, cause one of them even sold Jesus! None of them were highly educated, almost all of them "disowned" Jesus as He was being captured, tortured, and being hang on the cross, and Peter even denied Jesus 3 times! Look at the transformation they have after they saw and met with Jesus :)
FYI - I have actually just started a "Faith Quote of the Day" series, and feel free to check that out. I hope that would encourage you and assist you, or grow with you in your journey of faith and potentially be a follower of Jesus :)
Yeah, I really super thanks for this. I will gonna follow you. :)
Anyways, are you familiar with the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ)? or INC church? I have been doctrinized there once and they believe Jesus is just a man. That is why I am now keep on asking if He really is.
Thank you for this information. I learned a lot...
Very good post
Then there is a path proposed by God to humanity, it is a path that everyone must decide whether to take it or leave it. Whoever decides to choose this path should manifest the love of God with his example of life, in each of the acts of his daily life. Whoever decides not to take the path established by God, which is the path of love, freely and voluntarily turns his back on God, separates himself from God and works his own way.
In the end, it will be our fruits that will determine our final destiny. God has given us life; and with that gift he gave us the freedom of choice. We must choose if we decide to add in the construction of the kingdom of Love on this earth or we decide to add in the destruction of that kingdom of love, through hatred, selfishness, greed, intolerance and violence.
The challenge is to consciously, voluntarily and freely assume the decision, to add each day in the construction of the kingdom of God on this earth.
Excelente contenido, Felicitaciones, Dios continúe utilizándote para bendecir a otros.
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There was but one purpose beyond delivering the message of the masters, and that was to, with the cooperation of High Priestess Maria Magdalena, so conjoin the bloodline of Kings with the bloodline of the Priests to create "Sang'real" (holy blood) and thus releasing such a force into the annals that before then only the most esoterically educated had even an awareness of.
Esoteric baldadash!
Esoteric, perhaps, Eye intend to change that though.
Does it inflict cognitive dissonance?
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Let me know how this can happen, or the appraiser on what grounds / I am interested in following it, because in the last few days I am a sinner, has slowed the social project of the church in Indonesia. The target of this project is to help Christians in this country whose social and economic rights are deprived. I felt diminished on that basis. And I am committed to each of the postings I use for the charity once before in Indonesia. And here I am compiling and forming structures with some other steemians.
Yea,what a great message,Christ has done it all via his finish work,he came that we might have life and have it to the full.he became the embodiment of sin for mankind and he gave us his righteousness,indeed he has done it all,no more judgement,condemnation to those who believe the sacrifice of Christ.through his death he has brought more sons to glory and he has defeated him(the devil)that has the power over life and death,he has the key,glory to God.thank you Jesus for your love you demonstrated for us on the cross.
I agree with you @asekevwe
So cool @bibizzle..... I love me some scriptures!!
Amen to that. Thank you @bibizzle for sharing, thank you for writing in a way so that I can also understand. I am at this place in my life, and it feels if this post was written just for me.
Thank you for the wonderful post. All the gift of heaven is poured into the life and ministry of Jesus. I am so glad we have a caring and personal God who is not distant but intimate with his children on earth. When we have the Son we have all. When we look upon Jesus just as Israel gazed upon the brazen snake on the staff...it will draw all men to Him.
I agree intoto that the core of Christianity is a gift offered to all people by which the recipient may transmute from a life doomed for hell to one destined for heaven.
Este es un tema que todos debemos conocer y dominar, es bueno que por este medio podamos ser edificados. Dios le bendiga