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To: Enterprise
Ok, he defended one pointed of view against another point of view.

No, it is isn't a matter of one set of man's views against anothers. Jesus taught the Truth of God - that was written in Torah and the Prophets. That Truth being that there is only Holy, Righteous and Merciful God who by His grace will cover the people's sins and atone for them when they turn from their selfish ways and love Him and guard His truth in their hearts. Jesus spoke The Truth that the Scriptures spoke of Him as the Messiah, God in the flesh. That it isn't about man's ideas or works, but it is simple faith in the eternal God that is the key to peace with God. And that He came to provide the means by which we can enter into that grace.

And some of the religious leaders of his time didn't like it did they?

No, they didn't like it for the same reason that Cain killed Abel up to the present day when people don't want to hear and admit the truth, and will still kill those who speak it - They want to rest on their own ideas and their own ways to please God instead of simply realizing that He is God and we are not and there is nothing in us that can please Him. They want to be on an equal basis with God. Jesus called them on that - that their works were nothing but nonsense and that instead of directing their flocks to the True Shepherd, they were leading them down a path of burden and sorrow and...

Nobody like to be convicted of their sins. It isn't pleasant. Unless, of course, we come to repentance and our sins are forgiven because of faith in Christ Jesus. Then there is joy that can't be expressed. But until we come to that repentance point, or if we do not at all, we know full well, though we suppress that knowledge, that we are fighting with God and we will not win. That suppression and the result of it come in many forms. One form was to crucify Christ Jesus, God in the flesh.

It reminds me of the religious leaders of today. Different view? No way, no how, don't read it, don't teach it, don't speak it, it's heretical!

There are all sorts of religious leaders of today. Some are like the Pharisees - relying and leading people to rely on their own ways to please God. Others are like the gnostics, others are like the Sadducees, others are like... And some are true Godly leaders who will warn their flocks and others of the eternal danger of listening to things like the gnostic gospels that deny who Jesus is. And for those who belong to Him, we are all commanded to warn others of such deadly spiritual poison.

17 posted on 04/26/2006 2:58:59 PM PDT by lupie
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To: lupie
"No, it is isn't a matter of one set of man's views against anothers."

LOL - yes it most certainly was! And Jesus was killed for it!

I think the motive of those who killed Jesus was different from the motive for Cain killing Abel.

"gnostic gospels that deny who Jesus is."

So who did the gnostics believe Jesus to be? Did they believe he existed at all? Did they or did they not believe he was the son of the one true God?

19 posted on 04/26/2006 3:51:17 PM PDT by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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