The Jesus of the Bible is the quintessential anti-establishment can-do fellow who gets up before the sun to take care of the needs of his animals and knock out some chores before heading off to help and heal people. There's the guy to follow (emulate), but the simple message is the one nobody wants.
Individuality is where everyone has a unique purpose that God designed just for him or her. The Messiah's mission is to lead and show the way up and out. Your sins are forgiven, so you can get up now and go for it... no longer paralyzed so there shouldn't be a problem, unless disability is preferred.
Fancy mumbo-jumbo religious dogma is like the "nutrition" label on Little Debbie snacks that you just have to take on faith. She looks so sweet, but holy smokes...
... which is why the truth has been routed unmolested through the popular culture e.g. iconic songs, movies, traditions, and historical events. Who's looking in any of those places. No wonder nobody can locate the Ark of the Covenant.
Meanwhile, established religion is a dead-serious business reliant on total lockdown. It's like the government schools that do everything in their power to churn out automatons who are trained to be wary of deniers, because those deniers would destroy the world just by showing up.
Jesus overthrowing the tables and saying that every stone would be cast down... at some point those events were relegated to ancient history, the fault of those other experts.
The Spirit of Elohim is the Spirit of Revelation (discovery). Let there be light, and there was light! It's the simple meaning .
Discover the unknown.
Curiosity didn't kill the cat. Consensus, conformity, and complacency did.
Continuing In Faith Is Not A Work
That's right, because it's not any work at all if it is love. And it's not any work if it is fun.
Like God wouldn't know how to match people up with their dream jobs? He sees where dreams, interests and motivations lie.
If the dream is to demand a living wage, or be entitled to free stuff paid for by somebody else, well won't people be livid when EBT generational-dependency Jesus is unmasked as a fraud. Talk about missing the mark.
The real Jesus would be having fun teaching little kids how to milk a cow. So sweet.
That's right, because it's not any work at all if it is love. And it's not any work if it is fun.
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John 14:12
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do...
Luke 24:46-47
...and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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Repentance and Salvation
Repentance is an essential part of salvation, requiring a turning away from the sin-ruled life to a life characterized by obedience to God. The Holy Spirit leads a person to repent, but repentance itself cannot be seen as a "good work" that adds to our salvation.
The Bible states that people are saved by faith alone (Ephesians 2:8-9). However, there can be no faith in Christ without repentance and no repentance without faith. The two are inseparable.