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To: JPX2011
But let me ask you a question, let us assume, for a moment that you agreed that it was Jesus. Would you agree that we have a duty, an obligation, a divine command to receive him?

If I thought that's how Jesus entered into me, yes, I would feel an obligation to eat him.

But Christ dwells in our hearts THROUGH FAITH.

Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Neither is the word Trinity, so on some fundamental level you have to accept doctrinal development, which, inevitably leads to an authority on Earth to make such determinations.

Two words....

sola Scriptura

507 posted on 07/27/2014 8:18:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
sola Scriptura

Oh of course. How could I have forgotten. Which, I suppose is how the word faith replaced charity in Ephesians 3:17

That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity.

524 posted on 07/27/2014 8:46:14 PM PDT by JPX2011
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