I think it is easy. All it takes is faith. That's it. Just follow as you are shown.
Obtaining salvation, and then continuing to walk in the faith of Jesus Christ are two separate things. Thank God for his perfect patience with all of us!
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True! A thousand different recipes and each thinks its the only true recipe. There's an ingredient of truth in each recipe. My point is that maybe the real true recipe is part of the vast majority of recipes. Maybe it's mistaken for an ingredient when it's actually the recipe!
To make matters worse, there are hundreds of views just on what ONENESS is -and many believe THEIR view of "oneness" is a requirement to enter the pearly gates.
Shoot, discussing Dialectical-Materialism analogies discovered in obscure pointillism artwork of artist Thaddeus Welch and how it relates to modern societal movements toward collectivism in a post-communist industrial economic systems, makes more sense to me than some of these "oneness" discussions!
To make matters worse, there are hundreds of views just on what ONENESS is -and many believe THEIR view of "oneness" is a requirement to enter the pearly gates. ...
All ya have to do is guess right!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
That is SO unfair, Timmy! Rather, all ya have to do is to guess right (or more accurately, to correctly interpret) AND have a scripture or two or three to plausibly back up your "correct" interpretation. And everyone should realize how difficult a thing that is to accomplish.
To make matters worse, there are hundreds of views just on what ONENESS is -and many believe THEIR view of "oneness" is a requirement to enter the pearly gates.
Shoot, discussing Dialectical-Materialism analogies discovered in obscure pointillism artwork of artist Thaddeus Welch and how it relates to modern societal movements toward collectivism in a post-communist industrial economic systems, makes more sense to me than some of these "oneness" discussions!
I don't think there are hundreds. And what many fail to realize is having a different explanation for HOW something is is not a variation on the theology but HOW to explain the theology.
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Simple: God created man.
Man sinned.
God had a solution, He sent Jesus, as the Savior of the whole world.
Man doesn't believe it, and continues in fear and unbelief.
God will reveal the truth to all men, some in this life, most in the next.
Man will believe, for "...when we see Him, we will be made like Him..."
Because man doesn't believe He continues to strive for ways to earn his own salvation, when he simply needs to enter into what God has already completed, thru faith in God. "...eternal life is to know Jesus Christ and the Father who sent Him..." Seek to know Him as He really is, and you will find peace.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
Simple: God created man.
Man sinned.
God had a solution, He sent Jesus, as the Savior of the whole world.
Man doesn't believe it, and continues in fear and unbelief.
God will reveal the truth
to all men, some in this life, most in the next
.
Man will believe, for "...when we see Him, we will be made like Him..."
Because man doesn't believe He continues to strive for ways to earn his own salvation, when he simply needs to enter into what God has already completed, thru faith in God. "...eternal life is to know Jesus Christ and the Father who sent Him..." Seek to know Him as He really is, and you will find peace.
Sounds kind of Hindi to me.
Jai Sri Ram!
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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Obtaining salvation, and then continuing to walk in the faith of Jesus Christ are two separate things. Thank God for his perfect patience with all of us!
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