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To: af_vet_1981
I understand that. "Christianity" has been re-formed and reinvented thousands of times. How old is your denomination/sect ? Two hundred years ? One hundred years ? Less ?

Like I said, ours is the religion of the bible alone...It's as old as Jesus and the apostles...

784 posted on 07/01/2014 9:47:32 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
Like I said, ours is the religion of the bible alone...It's as old as Jesus and the apostles...

Yes...it IS. The Christian faith - the one that believes in Jesus Christ as Lord God and Savior - is the faith of the Apostles and the very first disciples of Jesus Christ. This faith, in reality, goes all the way back to beginning of the human race as our first parents (Adam & Eve) were clothed in the skins of animals slain BY God as a foretaste of the blood of the Lamb of God who would NOT just cover our sins but take them away forever!

For those insisting that obedience to the Law of Moses - or ANY human law - is how we achieve the righteousness required to be in God's presence in heaven, God's word says that it is in the righteousness of CHRIST which we are found and not our own. Our obedience to God is a sign of our sanctification and not the cause of it. So, no matter what religion someone claims to follow, if it is not the gospel of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone, it is NOT the Christian faith.

785 posted on 07/02/2014 12:22:13 AM PDT by boatbums (Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
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To: Iscool
Like I said, ours is the religion of the bible alone...It's as old as Jesus and the apostles...

The Catholics and the Orthodox are the only churches of which I'm aware that can trace their succession to the Apostles. There was a reason for laying on of hands. The Orthodox Jews also trace their succession back to the giving of the Torah. The rest sprang up as different denominations, sects, cults, or religions and they formed their own rationale to try to sell themselves as legitimate to history.

788 posted on 07/02/2014 4:08:46 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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