There it is Dan. Statements like this is why me and others question your religion. It seems You don't believe in all the inspired Word's of the Christ of the Bible. Like the Pharisees before you, you don't believe "ALL" that is written.
I know you will no agree, but for others reading along. Think about this foundational doctrine of Mainstream Religions.
"It sounds to me like you basically believe the entire Bible is the gospel.
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What did the Christ of the Bible inspire to be said about Scriptures?
"Man does not
live by bread alone,
but by Every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God"
2 Tim. 3:
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished
unto all good works.
Acts 26:
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way
which they call heresy, so worship I
the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Dan doesn't believe all the Sayings of the Christ. His Christ didn't have any sayings until He became Flesh. The Pharisees, the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time, also didn't believe all the "sayings" of the Christ. He had His Gospel written for everyone in the scriptures mentioned above, but the Mainstream Preachers of His Time didn't believe much of what was written and neither does the Mainstream Preachers of our time.
Matt. 15:
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.
Matt. 23:
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and have omitted the weightier
matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
The entire Law and Prophets teach of the "death, burial and resurrection" of the Christ. But you reject why He even went through all this. As it is written, His Gospel is there so "
That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works.
The Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time had a gospel, it just wasn't the Gospel of Christ the Law and Prophets taught. They didn't believe "EVERY" Word of God, therefore they didn't believe when the Word of God became Flesh as prophesied. As Paul began his ministry explaining.
Rom. 1:
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein (Law and Prophets, the only scriptures available to Paul)
is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Old Testament verse)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed (In the Gospel of Christ) from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which
may be known of God is manifest in them;
for God hath shewed it unto them.
" The Wise Men knew, Zechariahs knew, Anna knew, Simeon knew, these all knew the Gospel of Christ and followed it."
The Mainstream God of Abraham teaching Preachers of the time were also shown, they just didn't believe.
"That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
Not the long haired image of the Christ created by the religions of the World, but the Holy Invisible Christ of the Bible, the Word of God which became Flesh, died and was raised from the dead and is now sitting at the Right hand of God.
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