To everyone who I've been engaged with here, this will be my final post. We could argue our views forever and THE TRUTH is, we will NEVER agree...and that's perfectly fine. But if the Spirit of God, His Word, or even secular evidence that you already claim to be aware of but deny, can't proof anything to...I certainly can't. I'll no longer waste my time here.
I have played the game on your level, even saying I wanted to believe you and agree with your reasoning. But you couldn't offer me anything that makes your beliefs better than mine in God. You couldn't offer me anything, because what you believe is deceit. My truth IS THE TRUTH, because my truth is from THE GOD OF THE ONLY TRUTH. You call me egotistical to claim such a thing but your problem isn't with me, it's with God. So you're really calling God egotistical. All I'm doing is trusting in who He is and THE TRUTH and neither you or anyone else will shake my faith because I don't trust in me, I trust in God who has rooted me in His Spirit and Truth.
Christianity is not easy, it requires your very life and it's not for the coward who chooses the easy way out. You walk in the way of the world, the way that denies Christ and accepts man instead. God condemns the evil in mans heart and reasoning, you accept it. So yes, it's much easier for you to live in this world because this world accepts your views. Neither you nor this world accepts THE TRUTH.
Squirrel, you're a coward.
Christopher and Szena, you were never truly saved and committed to the God of the Bible. You simply walked away from being enlightened.
Forensic, you are a loving, caring, merciful person and I will miss chatting with you and it's a shame we won't get to meet in eternity, nonetheless, before we come into eternity I hope you enjoy the greatest of peace and happiness.
To all of you, I don't wish harm or punishment on any of you. God doesn't wish harm or punishment on you, that is why He gave His Son for you to accept so you would not be subject to the punishment to come. But I do hope you all enjoy safety, good health and prosperity in this life...ALL of you!
I am a Christian, I am a follower of Jesus, Who is perfectly God and perfectly man. He IS THE truth:
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth" (Psalm 119:142).
"The sum of thy word is truth" (Psalm 119:160).
"Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth" (John 17:17).
"And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth" (2 Sam. 7:28).
"And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation" (2 Tim. 3:15).
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15).
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
There IS NO reality apart from God, for He IS reality. We are on earth for a small portion of time, thus eternity is reality. God is the holder of eternity, thus God IS reality.
Jehovah God will be our judge. We have been an affront to Him, therefore demanding a penalty for our disobedience. Before Christ, man was required to give a sacrifice to atone for their disobedience. But there was no end to man's disobedience, thus no end to the need of constant sacrifice. Knowing man is incapable of perfect obedience, He provided a perfect sacrifice that would put an end to the need of any other sacrifice. Only God is perfect and could be the perfect sacrifice, therefore He came to earth as man, Jesus, and gave Himself as the perfect sacrifice. And those that would confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in their heart that He raised from the dead, they would be saved and Jesus' atonement and righteousness would be credited to the believer as their own.
Then God gives the believer the Holy Spirit, the Wonderful Counselor, as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come...their salvation. And the Holy Spirit is evidence that the believer is made new, the old is gone, the new has come. The Counselor speaks within the soul of the believer THE TRUTH. The truth though, is foolishness to the unbeliever, because the unbeliever does not have within them the Holy Spirit to guide them in THE TRUTH.
Jesus came to save, not judge. But Jesus said there is one coming who will judge. And to him who has denied the Holy Spirit who enlightens man to THE TRUTH and have not received the gracious, merciful gift of God, that person will face the judge and will have to give an account of their lives and attempt to defend themselves by their reason. He who has committed blasphemy, denying the Holy Spirit, shall be required to have lived more righteously than Christ Jesus. If the unbeliever has not lived more righteously than Jesus, but attempts to enter eternity on their own merit and reasoning, they will be found lacking the holiness to enter into God's holy kingdom and instead cast into punishment and torment, not apart from God, but rather facing God's wrath for all eternity without EVER having hope of escaping it. The unbeliever will not be in the presence of other "pure" souls and "good" people, they will be in torment with no peace.
God is the God of peace to those who believe in Him and trust in Jesus to be their righteousness. To those who deny Him, He will be the God of wrath and destruction. It all comes down to who you believe Jesus to be and whether or not you will accept THE TRUTH and commit to Him. Dying to your former nature and finding true life in surrendering to Him.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
Romans 3:23 - ...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord
1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness
John 3:16-17 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him
Acts 4:12 - Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be
saved
John 1:11-13 - He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 2:8-9 - For it is by grace you have been saved, through faithand this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast
Romans 10:9-10 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
If you read this and you're enlightened to THE TRUTH, then seek Jesus! If not, then you are hardened, not that God gave you a hardened heart, but that you have disbelieved the truth and hardened your own heart to the truth. God will not force Himself upon you in order to make you believe, He allows you to continue to disbelieve and the longer you disbelieve, the harder it is to be able to see the truth because you've spent you time following deception:
2 Corinthians 3:14 - But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:4 - in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (edited: "god of this world", in context, means satan or mankind)
Romans 1:28 - And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
1 Timothy 6:5 - and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
2 Timothy 3:8 - Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
If you reject, the Holy Spirit who reveals THE TRUTH of God and the Christ, your judgment will be severe and eternal:
Hebrews 10:28-30 - Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY " And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE."
But to those who accept the Holy Spirits testimony of truth about God and the Christ; salvation, grace, mercy and peace are yours for eternity:
1 John 2:24-26 - As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
1 John 2:16-18 - For everything in the worldthe cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and doescomes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
You who have taken the time to read this, You cannot say you've never heard the gospel, so you are not unaware of THE TRUTH. You have the free will to do with THE TRUTH what you will. Whether you believe it or not, does not take away from THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH will be THE TRUTH, yesterday, today, and forever and you will be held to account for what you do with it.
May God break your hearts in order to break the chains the deception has on you. Don't choose hell, choose Christ and live!
Ezekiel...signing off....
