THE SUBJECT OF FAITH

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Hello all. Been a long time since i posted. Thought I'd contribute with a weekly series podcast. With some though provoking questions and answers... Its been a burden on my soul to preach the gospel now. But, as many have noted there are all kind of doctrinal differences between. Well let's be honest. The gospel Jesus and his disciples preached. And what many are preaching these days. In any event. I did use that horrible ghastly thing called Ai to voice it. Haha, i will be honest. Hope it doesn't distract too much. My recording conditions aren't the best as of now.
So for a while it will stay like this. Well the subject is faith of this kinda podcast i suppose....

Oh and if you wanna listen along its here...

 

[GWH]

Hello all. Been a long time since i posted. Thought I'd contribute with a weekly series podcast. With some though provoking questions and answers... Its been a burden on my soul to preach the gospel now. But, as many have noted there are all kind of doctrinal differences between. Well let's be honest. The gospel Jesus and his disciples preached. And what many are preaching these days. In any event. I did use that horrible ghastly thing called Ai to voice it. Haha, i will be honest. Hope it doesn't distract too much. My recording conditions aren't the best as of now.
So for a while it will stay like this. Well the subject is faith of this kinda podcast i suppose....

Oh and if you wanna listen along its here...

Here are some of my Bible-based thoughts regarding the subject of faith:

A crisis that threatened a Philippian jailer with death prompted him to ask Paul and Silas the most important question in life: “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30) This question is most important, because—as sinful and mortal souls—we need saving from corruption, both moral and physical. We need saving from physical death if we value or enjoy life, and we need saving from immorality or evil-doing if it results in unhappy existence, especially after this lifetime.

Jesus expressed GRFS succinctly by saying “Repent” (Matt. 4:17) and “Ask… seek… knock…” (Matt. 7:7, Heb. 11:6, Isa. 45:19), implying that God gives every sinful soul the ability to repent and seek salvation (cf. 1Tim. 2:3-4, 2Tim. 2:25, Ezek. 33:11), which might be why Paul said sinners are saved “by grace through faith” (Eph. 2:8-9, Tit. 2:11). Seeking God is the beginning of saving faith, and not repenting or rejecting God’s salvation in Christ is the essence of evil atheism or faith in I-dolatry (Rom. 3:11, 1:18-23).

The reply of Paul and Silas to the jailer was, “Believe in the Lord Jesus.” (Acts 16:31). This is GRFS in a nutshell: “Accept Christ Jesus as Lord” (as also in 2Cor. 4:5 & Col. 2:6). The main points of Christian orthodoxy implicit in this statement can be explained or elaborated as follows:

1. There is a/one all-loving and just Lord or Creator God (Deut. 6:4, John 3:16, 2Thes. 1:6), who loves sinful humanity (Rom. 5:6-8, John 3:16) and who is both able (2Tim. 1:12) and willing (1Tim. 2:3-4, Ezek. 33:11) to provide all morally accountable human beings salvation or heaven—a wonderful life full of love, joy and peace forever.
2. Human beings are selfish or sinful (Rom. 3:23, 2Tim. 3:2-4, Col. 3:5), miserable (Gal. 5:19-21), and hopeless (Eph. 2:12) or hell-bound at the judgment (Matt. 23:33 & 25:46) when they reject God’s salvation (John 3:18, Rom. 2:5-11).
3. Jesus is God’s Messiah/Christ and incarnate Son, the way that God has chosen (John 3:16, Acts 16:30-31, Phil. 2:9-11) of providing salvation by means of his atoning death on the cross for the payment of the penalty for the sins of humanity (Rom. 3:22-25 & 5:9-11), followed by his resurrection to reign in heaven (1Cor. 15:14-28).
4. Thus, every person who hears the NT Gospel needs to repent and accept God’s grace or justification in Jesus as Christ/Messiah the Lord or Supreme Commander (Luke 2:11, John 14:6, Acts 16:31), at which moment God’s loving Holy Spirit of Christ indwells/baptizes the believer into the church (Rev. 3:20, Rom. 5:5, 1Cor. 12:13).
5. Loving Christ Jesus as Lord (Luke 2:11), God the Son (Matt. 16:16) or God in the human dimension (Col. 2:9) means reflecting divine love (DL) as empowered by the Holy Spirit, thereby obeying His command to love one another (Matt. 7:21, 22:37-40, John 13:35, Rom. 13:9)—forever (Matt. 10:22, Psa. 113:2), which will eventually achieve spiritual maturity on earth and heaven after Christ returns at God’s resurrection (John 14:6, 17&26, Rom. 8:6-17, Gal. 6:7-9, Eph. 1:13-14, Phil. 3:12-16, Heb. 10:36, 12:1, Jam. 1:2-4).

Over...

 

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Hello there, GWH. Yes, indeed salvation is a mystery to the world and both pertinent for every christian.

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.”

AND...

“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

You see. Its important to have scripture at all times. But i try to explain the logic behind the scripture when evangelizing. Because, lets face it. People are against hearing the word nowadays. Mostly anyway. And all these things are known historically. It's not even a question. Some people are so woefully ignorant. They don't even know Jesus Christ was a real person! Its just in dispute amongst historians whether he was a messiah. But of course we know...

Of course people claim the opposite and think the whole entire story of the bible narrative is not provable. To some extent, they don't know about archeological finds either. So what i tried to do. And what I will be continuing to do. Is to 'get down' to the common laymens level you see. In these podcasts. They currently don't care and need a reason to care.

But otherwise thank you for your thoughts on this subject.
THEY STILL HOLD TRUE!

 

[GWH]

Hello there, GWH. Yes, indeed salvation is a mystery to the world and both pertinent for every christian.

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.”

AND...

“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

You see. Its important to have scripture at all times. But i try to explain the logic behind the scripture when evangelizing. Because, lets face it. People are against hearing the word nowadays. Mostly anyway. And all these things are known historically. It's not even a question. Some people are so woefully ignorant. They don't even know Jesus Christ was a real person! Its just in dispute amongst historians whether he was a messiah. But of course we know...

Of course people claim the opposite and think the whole entire story of the bible narrative is not provable. To some extent, they don't know about archeological finds either. So what i tried to do. And what I will be continuing to do. Is to 'get down' to the common laymens level you see. In these podcasts. They currently don't care and need a reason to care.

But otherwise thank you for your thoughts on this subject.
THEY STILL HOLD TRUE!

Trying to explain the logic behind the Scriptures when evangelizing is what I also do, such as in post #2.
I describe it as trying to harmonize GW. I witness by means of sharing a logical train of thought on the Apologetics thread.

I also find many folks on CC are against hearing GW, preferring to proof-text and ignore much of GW rather than repent of believing problematic dogmas.

Regarding proof, I would say GW says that we walk by faith, not by proof (2Cor. 5:7), although the evidence you cite warrants confidence, because atheists also walk by faith and have no evidence.

 

[homwardbound]

Hello all. Been a long time since i posted. Thought I'd contribute with a weekly series podcast. With some though provoking questions and answers... Its been a burden on my soul to preach the gospel now. But, as many have noted there are all kind of doctrinal differences between. Well let's be honest. The gospel Jesus and his disciples preached. And what many are preaching these days. In any event. I did use that horrible ghastly thing called Ai to voice it. Haha, i will be honest. Hope it doesn't distract too much. My recording conditions aren't the best as of now.
So for a while it will stay like this. Well the subject is faith of this kinda podcast i suppose....

Oh and if you wanna listen along its here...

Faith

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H-eavens

F-orwarding
A-ll
I-ssues
T-o
H-eaven

God so simply loves all people's. God sent Son to willingly die once for us all, that is done John 19:30. Left today now to choose personally between God and self to believe God in Son or not willingly, consciously, as is risen where the new life given from Father is a gift. to love all and no longer just a few.
To be new in the same love and mercy as Son did first for us all. Amazing Grace as John Newton wrote, after seeing. this truth, who was a slave trader and stopped in trust to God. Saw for God to lead through him in love and mercy to all too, thank you Father and Son as Won