To: PeterPrinciple
If one read the Bible one would learn that the first generation churches failed and Jesus told them to REPENT and go back to their first love. See the first few chapters of Revelation.
So you believe the church Jesus built failed ?
The churches in Revelation, members of the one holy catholic apostolic church, did not fail in Revelation. They were warned, like Israel was warned, and some were close to failure, but there is no record of what happened afterward in the book. We do not know if they made it or not. The LORD Jesus Christ warned them so that they would not fail, but they have to cooperate and do what He said, and so it is with all of us who have ears to hear.
The seven churches were warned that if they did not repent and do the works the Messiah commands them, He would: - church of Ephesus -- remove their candlestick
- church in Smyrna -- not really threatened, more like informed of their trials to come
- church in Pergamos -- fight against them with the sword of His mouth
- church in Thyatira -- kill the children (followers) of the female teacher who called herself a prophetess
- church in Sardis -- blot their names out of the book of life
- church in Philadelphia was not threatened
- church of the Laodiceans -- spit them out of His mouth.
75 posted on
04/29/2017 6:43:28 PM PDT by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: af_vet_1981
So you believe the church Jesus built failed ?
Yes, NONE came up to God’s standards. All have failed and come short of the glory of God.
Thus, the major them of the Bible, REPENT and turn to God. It is only by God’s grace that any are saved. Jesus does not fail, but there is much weeds in the church. So what is the church? Do you have faith in the church or in Jesus. There IS a difference.
84 posted on
04/29/2017 7:01:44 PM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: af_vet_1981
Jesus didn’t build churches ....churches are simply location or real estate.....he built ‘the body of believers’ and they are joined together by His Spirit within them no matter where they attend for worship.
86 posted on
04/29/2017 7:05:02 PM PDT by
caww
To: af_vet_1981
204 posted on
04/30/2017 4:22:20 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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