Jesus
Christ came to this world to save it and not judge it!
This is what
Christ came to this world for.
Yes Christ may well have been the very 1st son born before the earth was made as it now is and yes
Christ came to this world to prove to his father that he (Christ Jesus) was who he was by dying and going into his dead body to where his father did reign to show to his father that his very first mission to establish all the ways and means needed to keep the nasty from ever anymore to be but only the ruled over within the confining constraints of all celestial cosmologies everywhere to be so known by God Almighty!
The story of Mary's perpetuated virginity came in to open a false religion which was practiced for thousands of years before
Christ came to this world.
In other words it is doing what
the Christ came to the world for: effectively to proclaim and prophetically to act out the reality of the Kingdom - foot washing, table fellowship, association with outcastes, women, «sinners `, healings, exorcisms, etc..
Not exact matches
If you believe at all that
Christ was the son of God and
came to save the
world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.
Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The
World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have
come up along side of me, but I do not want you
to come against them as they have their own trials
to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in
Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going
to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means
to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?
He goes on
to say that just as sin
came into the
world through Adam, so has eternal life
come into the
world through
Christ.
According
to the latest research I've
come across, approximately 100,000 people around the
world put their faith in
Christ every day!
One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that
came to prominence in the Anglo - American
world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience
to the life of
Christ's Church.
Indeed, if we decide
to believe in
Christ, at the same time we have
to choose between fortune here and fortune in the
world to come.
After Jesus expressly told his followers that there would be many false prophets
to come after him, sure enough, along
comes this guy six centuries later who decides
to install himself above
Christ and then commits his followers
to a path of murder and
world domination.
It states that sinfulness does not proceed from God, hence my belief that God did not cause people
to crucify the Lord Jesus
Christ, and that He (God) from all Eternity, out of His Will, ordains what
comes to pass, hence out of His Sovereign Grace, Will, Wisdom, and Command fore - ascertained the «Ultimate Provision» for our Salvation out of the betrayal of man, before the foundation of the
world.
Christ came into the
world to extend this order
to all people.
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance:
Christ Jesus
came into the
world to save sinners — of whom I am the worst.
It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed
to offer answers
to the problems of ordinary life, that
Christ came into the
world and revealed God's salvific plan
to all of mankind.
Why don't you try teaching your kids
to come to an honest faith in
Christ first, and leave the rest of the
world the f vck alone!!
If we are
to speak of being chosen, of being among God's elect, it is
to say that, like Abraham, we are chosen for the sake of God's plan that the nations of the
world come to enjoy the blessing of Abraham (which is exactly how Paul describes the effect of God's redemption of Israel through
Christ in Galatians 3:14).
A powerful inducement
to believe in
Christ is the abundant life of meaning and purpose He alone can give, and the crowning experience of life as His intimate companion in the
world to come, not
to mention the obvious fact that through this faith one escapes the corruption of the lake of fire.
The tweet link in the article body is also fdirectly contradicted by 1 Timothy 1:15 «This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: «
Christ Jesus
came into the
world to save sinners» — and I am the worst of them!»
And it is only God's
to give, for it is based on the recognition that it is not our task
to make history
come out right or
to save the
world — through either our bombs or our peace — because, in Jesus
Christ, history has already
come out right.
The purpose of the Christian religion, which
came to us through Jesus
Christ, is
to get us
to Heaven and, since sin entered the
world,
to keep us out of Hell.
This
coming Sunday, Christians all around the
world — in churches and in homes and in refugee camps and on the streets — will light the first candle, the Hope candle,
to open Advent, the traditional season of preparation for the
coming of the
Christ - child as well as the reminder that
Christ is
coming again.
According
to the beliefs here, the whole spirit
world exists until the second
coming of
Christ
But
Christ has
come to turn it into His
World.
One of our greatest difficulties in preaching today
comes from the widespread notion that in Jesus
Christ, and indeed in all situations where God is believed
to be especially «at work,» we have what is often described as an «intrusion» from outside the
world into the order of events with which we are commonly familiar.
The audacity of Christian hope is that Jesus
Christ came into the
world, and is reconciling all things
to himself.
As I have
come to see the
world through the light of Jesus
Christ, the crucified God, this crucivision lens has helped me understand life, Scripture, and theology more clearly, and it has helped me grow in love for others more deeply.
Having long believed that everything that lives is holy, Blake finally
came to see the
world of generation as the incarnate body of
Christ:
She said
to Him, «Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the
Christ, the Son of God, who is
to come into the
world.»
Christ, the absolute Word of God, has
come in the flesh and reconciled, that means united) the
world to God through his death
Thus we
come to the new common task shared by all Christian Churches of our time, namely that they all must bear witness
to God, his
Christ and his grace in a
world that does not want
to hear their message and that they all have the duty
to proclaim it in such a way as not
to make it unintelligible or incredible.
While the Jew awaits a Messiah of the future, the Christian knows that the Messiah - Son of Man has
come in Jesus
Christ, that his
coming was a real and decisive event, and that he will be present with us even
to the
coming of the end of the
world.
We have heard William Miller's call
to the faithful
to prepare for
Christ's
coming on October 22, 1844; Jehovah's Witnesses» declaration that
Christ returned invisibly and spiritually in 1914; and Herbert Armstrong's prediction that the end would
come in January 1972 — an announcement that led many members of his
World Wide Church of God
to sell their possessions in preparation for going
to Petra (Wadi Musa) in Jordan, believed
to be a place of safety for the elect.
Rather Galatians 4:4,5 clearly teach that
Christ came to redeem them that were under the law, that
Christ is the propitiation for our sins (believers) but not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole
world.
We are forced
to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely
to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast
to the joys of the
world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care of themselves if enough men were brought
to Christ.
On the face of it, this dogma may seem
to force a choice between
Christ and the universe, or between the
world to come and this
world, or between religion and science.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the
world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according
to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole
world being at peace in the sixth age of the
world, Jesus
Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring
to sanctify the
world by his most merciful
coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.
It is of this freedom - in - dependence that Paul speaks when he writes: «All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things
to come; all are yours; and you are
Christ's; and
Christ is God's!»
The prophecy in the last words of John's Gospel, that if the many other things which Jesus did were
to be written, the
world itself would not contain the books,
comes close
to fulfillment in the oft - repeated enterprise of writing a life of
Christ or an interpretation of some aspect of his teaching.
OF course, this is odd since apparently he disagrees with himself where he had previously taught [Romans 5.12 - 21] that «sin and death
came to the
world through one man's sin»,»... so one man's [
CHrist's] act of righteousness leads
to justification and life for all.»
Whereas challenges
to biblical faith,
world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second
coming of
Christ, increasingly plausible.
It speaks
to the satisfactions I've found recently through intentional encounters with the unscreened
world: in helping my neighbor load up his baby pigs; putting my phone in a tray as I
come through the front door so that I remember
to give my kids my whole self; observing the way the Benedictine monks on the hill near my home bow in greeting one another and the way their eyes pierce me — greeting me, the stranger, as a guest, as
Christ.
«
Christ came to heal, reconcile, and invite the
world to enter freely and fully into the divine life» (Patricia Wilson Kastner, Faith, Feminism and the
Christ [Fortress, 1983], p. 128).
Only if the Christian Movement is able
to demonstrate, concretely in deed and word, how Jesus
Christ reveals the radical
world - commitment of a God who is (as Paul reputedly said on Mars Hill) «not far from every one of us,» will it manifest biblical faithfulness in the multi-religious and multi-threatened
world that is and is
coming to be.
If
Christ were
to come tomorrow, before the iPhone 5 had a chance
to become obsolete in the current age, do you think we would be using iPhones in the new
world?
As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had
come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of
Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued
to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen
world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».
Chilean Pentecostalism shares the basic characteristics of the Pentecostal identity: an emphasis on evangelization oriented
to conversion, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church as a charismatic and healing community, the belief in a spiritual
world, and the anticipation of the Second
Coming of
Christ.
Since with
Christ the eternal light has
come into the
world,
to sin against the light is
to be judged.
The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly
to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall
come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus
Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the
world began.»