*Lapell… I am working with what I have before me. Deuteronomy 30:11-14 promises that I have all that I need within my reach to see the Truth. It is the blessing and the cursing. Amos 3:7 to believe what was declared by God through His prophets is truly a blessing for He continues to enlighten my mind (proverbs 2:1-7).
*That’s fantastic! Thing is, I did not see it happen and have no reason for just taking the word of men to base my belief on. However, I once was blind, but now I see… and now I know that there is only ONE God and there is none other beside Him. He alone is my Saviour, my Creator, and His name is LORD.
You seem to consider your time as a Christian Baptist a time when you were deceived, then? What made you Christianity to be a deception?*Lapell… I am working with what I have before me. Deuteronomy 30:11-14 promises that I have all that I need within my reach to see the Truth. It is the blessing and the cursing. Amos 3:7 to believe what was declared by God through His prophets is truly a blessing for He continues to enlighten my mind (proverbs 2:1-7).
Jeremiah 17:5 is the curse that so many have rather taken hold of in that they believe something other than what was spoken by God through the testimonies of the prophets. Or they are leaning to their own understanding… “OH! It says resurrection… that means I will gain a god-like status to live eternally if I put my trust IN A MAN that died 2,000 years ago with no evidences whatsoever that he actually is still alive!” (BTW… when you put the resurrection spoken of in the Tanakh into the whole of the context, it is clear that it is not speaking of what the NT and the Church claims).
God declares His firstborn Son as Israel more than once and it is discarded to instead believe the church who says it was only Jesus, their demigod.
God commands that male and female procreate (this IS His way) and it is disregarded what He said to rather believe the lie that Jesus was born of a Virgin who was impregnated by the Holy Spirit.
God says He is not a man, that He alone is the Saviour, and that HIS NAME is LORD, and yet, most believe that Jesus, A MAN, is God, our Saviour, and that he is the Lord that every knee should bow to and every tongue should confess his lordship over creation.
The credit for EVERYTHING that is the Creation of God is going to a man!!
The curse has been grabbed a hold of (that so many believe and trust man over God) and the end result is that He will bring their fears upon them…
And it is quite ironic… Deuteronomy 32: 37 “And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38* Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.” Ironic, no? because in essence, the Church and its followers are worshiping THEIR own image! AGAIN… proverbs 2:1-7
Say, are you a Muslim? As for taking the word of men… well, you had to take into account the word of some people to come to conclusions you arrived at, hadn’t you?*That’s fantastic! Thing is, I did not see it happen and have no reason for just taking the word of men to base my belief on. However, I once was blind, but now I see… and now I know that there is only ONE God and there is none other beside Him. He alone is my Saviour, my Creator, and His name is LORD.
Isaiah 43:6-12*
*Not at all. My parents and those of the school/church that I attended DID believe they had the truth. To say they deceived me would imply evil intent on their part, and I know that is not truth… they had deceived their ownselves by not questioning and searching for the Truth to rather believe blindly in what THEY were told. However, whenever I would question ALL THE MANY things that did not make sense to me, I was told (not so much by my parents as the other adults at the time) I did not have enough faith. That was their answer to everything… that or “it’s the mystery of God.” It did not seem right to me.
*If Jesus was a Jewish man, then yes… he was born of a mother and a father and was not God. If he was a demigod as so many say he was, then he was not Jewish. That is not something that is supported by the Tanakh, but rather mythologies. *
*NO… I am not muslim. And no, I am not taking the word of men. Malachi 3 has in it that God will prove Himself… before I even knew that promise was there, the thought came to my mind in just that way… then I saw the promise, was astounded, and He really brought it forth when I obeyed. Since then, I have seen the evidences by His fulfilling many of the promises given in the Tanakh. It happened when I let go of the faith, experienced the fear of God, and then started seeking after Truth (though before that promise was brought to fruitation, I was seeking it outside of the Word… though looking back, it was very much guided). There was not anything that anyone could say to me to convince me something was Truth… He was the only One who could convince me… and I guess it was what He wanted from me for I have been blessed in many ways by His Word and understanding. *
You still trust the word of one man who claimed he received his message from God, did you know that?
No, I didn’t know that and in fact, you are mistaken if you believe it. I rejected it along with the NT because, true, both are written by man… That either both or one of the Testaments was Divinely inspired is something I finally rejected adamently until it was proved to me by God Himself that He Divinely inspired either/or. And He did prove it to me that the Tanakh is indeed Divinely inspired in, what is to me, a very miraculous and extremely sweet way.
**The most profound for me was “consider”… over and over in my head every time I felt emotional over something… “consider this.” And I did… that is how I came to understand the Beauty in the Tanakh… God and His relationship with Israel, the People… and then I was astounded to come across Ezekiel 18:20-28 after having considered much. *