You believe religion was created by the devil. It's true in the sense of other religions. The whole point of multiple religions existing is to confuse people since there was only one and that was Christianity.
If you understand that all "other" religions were created by Satan to confuse people and keep them
AWAY from God, why then would you believe that Satan didn't likewise create "Christianity" which quite clearly teaches the opposite of what Christ teaches? It's always someone else, but never you that's in error?
Christ is The Way, NOT "Christianity".
Do you know who likes confusing people?? The devil. He doesn't want people to pursue the true religion.
Agreed.
TRUE religion is a bonded obligation to God, to
DO His Will. It has absolutely
NOTHING to do with
any organized religion, including "Christianity" which is itself divided into over 3000 different denominations, proving it is
NOT of God.
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself SHALL NOT STAND:
Well as a Christian as I assume you're not, I follow Christ/God manifested in flesh. Now you wouldn't know anything about what Jesus Christ teaches since you yourself deny him with scripture right in your face.
Christ
NEVER claimed to be God. Not once. He only and very plainly stated that He is the
SON OF God.
Do you really not understand the
simple concept of what a Father and Son relationship is? A Son is the
CREATED OFFSPRING of his father, hence the use of those terms. God plainly stated He could
NEVER be "manifested in the flesh", i.e. be a human man or the son of man, which
you are denying.
Numbers 23:19
GOD [IS] NOT A MAN, that He should lie;
NEITHER THE SON OF MAN, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do [it]? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
1 Samuel 15:28-29
15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The "I AM" hath torn the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.
15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor reconsider: for
HE [IS] NOT A MAN, that He should change His mind.
Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to
destroy Ephraim: for
I [am] God, AND NOT MAN; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
It says repeatedly throughout Scripture that Father (God)
MADE His Firstborn/Eldest Son, Whom He (Father)
ANOINTED. The Hebrew word "Messiah" and the English word "Christ" both mean "The Anointed One", i.e. the one Whom God anointed. A few of many examples in Scripture, where we are told straight out that Father (God)
MADE/CREATED His Christ:
Prov. 8:20-30,
Acts 2:36,
1 Cor. 1:20,
2 Cor. 5:20-21,
Rom. 8:14-17,
Rom. 8:28-29,
Col. 1:12-15,
Heb. 1:1-4,
Heb. 2:9-11,
Heb. 2:17,
Heb. 5:5-11,
Heb. 6:20,
Rev. 3:14.
Please note well this isn't a single verse being quoted out of context; this is a
MOUNTAIN of evidence that is being ignored by anyone claiming that Jesus is/was God.
You are confusing mainstream so called Christianity and actual Christians. Anyone can call themselves Christians yet their life is a reflection of whether they really are or not. You and your big brain should know that. There is one word we Christians follow and that is the word of God.
Christ Himself plainly stated that those who follow their own man-made traditions -- including
ALL organized religion and
ALL other man-made systems -- make the Commandments of God of
NO EFFECT by their traditions (
Matt. 15:3,
9). Christ Himself
CONDEMNED all priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, etc., making it crystal clear that He is the
ONLY Teacher, the
ONLY High-Priest and the
ONLY Good Shepherd (
Matt. 23:8-10,
John 10:1-18). Christ told everyone
NOT TO GO TO CHURCH (or synagogues, or mosques, or temples, etc.), because only heathens and hypocrites go to such places (Matt. 6:5-8),
WHERE GOD DOES NOT DWELL (
Acts 7:48,
17:24).
How obvious does it need to be made that "Christians" are
NOT following The word of God, regardless of what they may claim to the contrary?
But you on the other hand have multiple ones to the point where you're even confused yourself.
You yourself are in confusion and preaching it, either not knowing the difference between a father and a son, which are quite obviously
TWO distinct individuals (the latter
made by the former), or you don't believe God and His Word, which plainly states that Father
IS The Most High God and the God of us all,
including The God of His Christ. And this is according to Christ Himself. How then could you possibly see yourself in a position to judge whether another is confused?
Your god confuses you, mistranslates the Bible, can't preserve his word therefore things get added into his word in translations has other books from other religions (Quran) which contradict his word by calling Jesus Christ a mere prophet who never died on the cross.
God has
NEVER mistranslated His Holy Bible nor His Holy Koran (Quran);
MEN have done that, as was pointed out. So again, you are either intentionally misrepresenting what's already been personally shared or you are ignorant of what's been shared.
Have you ever read the Koran (Quran)? Or are you
misjudging it too, as you do with God's Word and with others who are striving to help you see your own errors?
IF the Koran is properly read and understood, it does
NOT deny the death of Jesus on the cross as the organized religion known as "Islam"
falsely claims; it merely points out that Christ -- the Immortal Spirit-Being
INSIDE of Jesus, Whom the world cannot see (
John 1:10) -- wasn't crucified, because He obviously cannot be killed. But "Muslims", who suffer from the same self-righteous delusions as "Christians",
mistakenly believe that their part of the Bible (the Koran) hasn't likewise been tampered with even though it not only tells them that
WILL happen, but why God has allowed it to happen: to
TEST us.
The
TRUTH about the crucifixion of Jesus, son of Mary, in the Koran:
Sura 4:157-158
4:157. That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ the son of Mary, the Messenger of God";-
but they killed Christ not, nor crucified Christ, but so it was made to appear to them (
as they crucified the human body called Jesus, that Christ the spirit-being used -
Psalm 22;
Isaiah 52:13 to
54:1;
Zechariah 11:10-13;
Matthew 27), and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) Knowledge, but only conjecture to follow,
for of a surety they killed Christ not:-
4:158.
NAY, GOD RAISED HIM UP UNTO HIMSELF and God is Exalted in Power, and in Wisdom;-
Note: the only reason God would need to raise Jesus up is if Jesus did, in fact, die on the cross, exactly as it says elsewhere in the Bible, which the readers of the Koran are repeatedly
COMMANDED to read.
Sura 6:122. Can he who was dead (Jesus –
Matt. 27:50-54,
Mark 15:37-39,
Luke 23:44-47,
John 19:30-42) to whom We gave life (
Matt. 28:5-10,
Mark 16:6-8,
Luke 24,
John 20), and a Light (
John 3:19-21,
John 8:3) with which he walks amongst men (Christ), be like him who is in the depths of darkness (Lucifer), from which he can never come out? Thus to those without Faith their own deeds seem pleasing.
Sura 19:33-34
19:33.
So Peace is on me the day I was born, THE DAY THAT I DIE, AND THE DAY THAT I SHALL BE RAISED UP TO LIFE (again)!"
19:34.
Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of TRUTH, about which they (VAINLY) dispute.
The Koran even tells us it was sent to
CONFIRM The Law and the Gospel that came before it (
Sura 2:97-98,
3:1-3,
4:47,
5:51,
6:92-94,
6:153-157,
10:37,
12:111,
22:52,
35:31,
46:12,
61:6-7), which means
IF the Koran is
properly understood, it should
always be in
perfect agreement with the Bible. The Koran also tells everyone who reads it that they
MUST follow Christ and His Example, but "Muslims", like their "Christian" counterparts, don't follow The Word of God found in the Koran.
Sura 3:55. Behold! God said: "O Jesus!
I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme*;
I will make those who follow thee SUPERIOR to those who reject faith, to The Day of Resurrection: then shall ye all return unto Me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.
*
Note well: those who
falsely claim and
vainly dispute that Jesus wasn't crucified and raised by God from the dead after 3 days and 3 nights, are committing blasphemy by calling God a liar
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And the
TRUTH about the
INCORRECT writings of the Word of God in the Koran:-
Sura 6:112-115
6:112. Likewise We made for
every Messenger an enemy,-
evil ones among men and Beings (human+beings),
inspiring each other with flowery discourses by way of deception. If thy Lord had so planned, they would not have done it: so leave them and their inventions alone.
6:113. To such (deceit) let the hearts of those incline,
who have no faith in the Hereafter: let them delight in it, and let them earn from it what they may.
6:114. Say: "Shall I seek for judge other than "I AM"? -
when He it is Who hath sent unto you The Book (Bible), explained in detail." They, to whom We have given The Book, know full well, that it hath been sent down from thy Lord in truth.
NEVER be then one of those who doubt (
Sura 3:1-3,
15:9,
32:23).
6:115. The Word of thy Lord doth find its
FULFILLMENT in TRUTH and in JUSTICE:
none can change His Words: for He is the One who heareth and knoweth all.
Sura 22:52-55
22:52.
Never did We send an Apostle or a Prophet before thee, but, when he framed a desire, Satan threw some (vanity) into his desire: but "I AM" will cancel anything (vain) that Satan throws in, and
"I AM" WILL CONFIRM (AND ESTABLISH) HIS SIGNS (
Sura 32:23): for "I AM" is full of Knowledge and Wisdom:
22:53.
THAT HE MAY MAKE THE SUGGESTIONS THROWN IN BY SATAN, BUT A TRIAL FOR THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE AND WHO ARE HARDENED OF HEART: verily the wrong-doers are in a schism far (from the Truth):
22:54. And that those on whom Knowledge has been bestowed may learn that the (Koran) is the Truth from thy Lord, and that they may believe therein, and their hearts may be made humbly (open) to it: for verily "I AM" is the Guide, of those who believe,
to The Straight Way (
Matthew 7:13-14,
John 14:6,
Sura 3:55).
22:55.
Those who reject Faith will not cease to be in doubt concerning (Revelation) until The Hour (of Judgment) comes suddenly upon them, or there comes to them the Penalty of a Day of Disaster.
Sura 25:31. Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the sinners: but
enough is thy Lord to guide and to help.
Honestly, go ahead.... Worship him, it's your right after all. And since you feel it is your right to take out words from the Bible then you yourself will be taken out of the book of Life.
Nothing has been personally taken from or added to the Bible. What has been pointed out is where the Roman Catholic church and its leaders have done exactly that, along with the irrefutable proof that they did it. They cannot hide the fact that the phrase they added to 1 John 5:7 (the "Johannine comma") is not in any of the original manuscripts, but was only added almost 1500 years later. The same goes with Matthew 28:19, the story of the adulterous woman, etc.
The beauty of Scripture is that it is
INCORRUPTIBLE because it is written in such a way that any errors in translation or intentional additions or subtractions stick out like a sore thumb against numerous other witnesses. This built-in error-correction by our Creator was done
KNOWING that extremely
evil people will always try to do evil things, and that His Children -- those who genuinely love and seek the Truth -- will find and uncover these things with Christ's Help and Guidance (
Luke 12:2).
God didn't write the verse about taking from his word for fun.
Agreed. And yet extremely evil people within the Roman Catholic church have done exactly that, as have numerous others who have published the various alternate translations, e.g. the NIV, ESV, etc.
Fortunately, and exactly as He prophesied and promised to do, Christ has returned to sort all of this out for us, and has published the
King of kings' Bible, which is the most accurate translation on Earth.
It was for people like you, who feel they are above the word of God that they can formulate the Bible which ever way they want simply because the Bible contradicts what they are saying.
You are again hurling false accusations that have no basis in reality. Pointing out when someone else has committed a crime doesn't make the witness a criminal; it only makes them a witness.
Look at the evidence and stop shooting the messenger (ad hominem, another logical fallacy).
You literally linked me Bible verses from Saint Mathew and John then turn around and then turn around and tell me Phillipines is inaccurate. It's ridiculous and it's because of your pride and demonic wisdom that leads you to this point.
It is your own arrogance and ignorance that blinds you to the truth and leads you to such
false judgments, which Christ
COMMANDED us not to make (
Matt. 7:1-4).
You are literally
ignoring words of directly from Christ, found in Matthew and John, so you can believe words
about Christ which not only contradict Christ, but also contradict the context in which they're found and the author of those words (Paul). And you do this even after having it pointed out to you. Please take the time to reread what's already been personally shared with you, all of which is true and also directly from Christ (
Isa. 5:20-21).
And again I say, the Bible NEVER contradicts its self.
Agreed. Which is exactly how any alterations or mistranslations (incorrect writings) stick out like a sore thumb, e.g. if Christ says Father is Greater than He (Christ) is, then it does
NOT follow (a non sequitur logical fallacy) that He is also "equal to" since those two terms are
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
King James Version (KJV)
Jesus never lied, he wasn't the son of man that he should repent(again, context). Did Jesus ever need to repent or do you want to add a verse in the Bible?
Jesus wasn't the Son of Man? Seriously? Why then is Jesus referred to over 80 times throughout the Gospels as "the Son of Man"? Most of these references are actually Jesus referring to Himself in that manner.
Matthew (30): 8:20,
9:6,
10:23,
11:19,
12:8,
12:32,
12:40,
13:37,
13:41,
16:13,
16:27,
16:28,
17:9,
17:12,
17:22,
18:11,
19:28,
20:18,
20:28,
24:27,
24:30,
24:37,
24:39,
24:44,
25:13,
25:31,
26:2,
26:24,
26:45,
26:64
Mark (14): 2:10,
2:28,
8:31,
8:38,
9:9,
9:12,
9:31,
10:33,
10:45,
13:26,
13:34,
14:21,
14:41,
14:62,
Luke (26): 5:24,
6:4,
6:22,
7:34,
9:22,
9:26,
9:44,
9:56,
9:58,
11:30,
12:8,
12:10,
12:40,
17:22,
17:24,
17:26,
17:30,
18:8,
18:31,
19:10,
21:27,
21:36,
22:22,
22:48,
22:69,
24:7
John (11): 1:51,
3:13,
3:14,
5:27,
6:27,
6:53,
6:62,
8:19,
12:23,
12:34,
13:31
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.
Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them,
Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of Man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Luke 5:24
But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon Earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
John 1:50-51
1:50
Jesus answered and said unto him,
Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
1:51
And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.
You also may have missed these verses (along with the 81 above):-
Matthew 19:16-17
19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have Eternal Life?
19:17 And he said unto him,
Why callest thou ME good? [there is] NONE good but One, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into Life, keep the Commandments.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
God's Word is
TRUTH, and has been since the beginning. The
TRUTH has always been
WITH God, and the
TRUTH WAS GOD. And the truth is even if someone substituted "Jesus" for where it says "the Word", it would read "Jesus
WAS God" (past tense) indicating that Jesus is no longer God. So anyone who mistakenly believes this verse proves Jesus
IS God
, IS obviously
mistaken.
John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
And Who
MADE the Word flesh? Father, Who
MADE/CREATED both Christ and Jesus.
John 10:30 - I and [my] Father are one.
Also, in context, the preceding verse states the following:
John 10:29
MY FATHER, which gave [them] me, IS GREATER THAN ALL; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.
John 10:30 is quite obviously referring to being of
ONE MIND and
ONE PURPOSE. Greater than does
NOT mean "equal to".
Do you also believe a husband and a wife were to somehow become one human instead of one family?
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
they shall be one flesh.
We are to be
at ONE with God, just as Christ is at One
WITH His Father and His God.
John 14:20
At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
What was Isaiah?
A PROPHET. And what did Isaiah do?
PROPHESY.
It doesn't say that Christ is all of these things, or that people would be correct in calling Him all of these names; only that people will call Him these names, which they've done in spades (thus fulfilling the prophecy).
John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Does this statement by
doubting Thomas somehow make Jesus God? No. People today routinely say OMG when they are startled, as Thomas clearly was by Jesus' appearance. Further, Thomas was likely thanking Father for showing him His Son, as only Father can do.
Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son (Elijah - the "Revealer of God") will reveal [Him].
And let's not forget that Christ called Father
His God, because Father is The Most High God, and Greater than
ALL.
John 20:17
Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto MY FATHER, and your Father; and [to] MY GOD, and your God.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that
the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and
the head of Christ [is] God.
You have no answer for this, because The Most High God simply cannot have a God, and Jesus very plainly stated that Father is
HIS God. That's why you pretended not to know what the ascension into heaven was when this
truth was shared with you, because Christ obviously still calls Father His God in heaven too.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in The Temple of MY GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of MY GOD, and the name of the city of MY GOD, [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY GOD: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Yep. Christ was
SENT here by God, in a previous incarnation, as Melchizedek (
Gen. 14:18-20,
Heb. 6:20-7:4).
It most certainly isn't a claim to be God, otherwise those same words in the original Greek (ego eimi) would have us believing that Zacharias (
Luke 1:18) Gabriel (
Luke 1:19), John the Baptist (
John 1:27), Peter (
Acts 10:21), and Paul (
Acts 21:39) were also claiming to be God (ego eimi).
Again I say, he was manifested in flesh.
Christ was manifested in the flesh in Jesus, just as He is again today, in a new body with a
NEW name, during
His Second Coming, exactly as prophesied. But that doesn't make Christ God, and anyone who says otherwise is contradicting Christ, because Christ very clearly told us that Father is His God.
This alone should make you realize you are in error. Christ has a God (Who IS God), and therefore Christ cannot be God, nor equal to God. Period.
There is one who is utterly perfect that could ever set an example for us and that is God himself therefore he manifested himself in flesh to show us humans that we can be like him if we...... BELIEVE in him. And when we believe we shall do the will of the father.
Is Christ the
PERFECT Example that we should all be believing and following? Yes, of course. That is why Father (God)
SENT His Christ. Does that make Christ God? No, not if we
BELIEVE Christ's own words.
Father's Will is that we all learn
HUMILITY and
OBEDIENCE to His
Perfect Law, exactly as Christ teaches. There is no other way to destroy evil/sin on this planet, which is Christ's assignment (
1 John 3:8).
You have no verse saying God isn't Jesus Christ
Of course that too is a lie. We have it directly from Jesus Christ that He, like the rest of us, also has a God: His Father, which art in heaven. Why do you think Jesus instructed His Disciples to pray to Father?
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say,
MY GOD, MY GOD, why hast Thou forsaken me? (
Eno. 89:20;
Psalm 22;
Isaiah 52:13 to
54:1;
Sura 4:157-8.)
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto MY FATHER, and your Father; AND [to] MY GOD, and your God.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in The Temple of MY GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of MY GOD, and the name of the city of MY GOD, [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY GOD: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
Please take the time to read and think about all of this very carefully, as if your life depends upon it, which it does.
John 17:3
And THIS is Life Eternal, that they might KNOW Thee the ONLY True God, AND Christ the Saviour, whom Thou hast SENT.
James 5:19-20
5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the Truth, and one convert him;
5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
ERROR of his way (not to a different wrong way but to
The Way -
Matt. 7:13-14,
John 14:6) shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Peace be upon you.