I am faced with a certain dilemna with which to solve. I observe an atheist who insists that Jesus did not exist, and all sorts of reasons to discount any authenticity to the works of Jesus. Test the works for yourself. If they were true earlier, they should still be true today. Jesus offered the gift of healing, teaching, miracles, among others. Of course, I should say, that any of you who choose not to trust will not see any of the manifestations of the spirit. They can only happen if you believe that they can. The works of God happen the best when love is being shared with those around you. How can you expect god to manifest Himself to you when yousay He is not real. Is a kind father going to force good things on you for you to believe? Of course He won't. He wants to give you a loving mind with which to receive and value the works of the spirit. Insulting God or insisting that He is not there is not a loving response to the kind things He wants to do for you. Give Him a chance.
I am not insulted personally by the responses I get from any of you here. God has proved to me that He is love, and it is by this method that I divide scriptures. The only law that Jesus had to fulfil was the law of love. Jesus did not carry on enforcing the old law. He replaced it with the new. No need for 613 commands to curse humanity with. Just love each other and God, and all the law was fulfilled. It's a shame that the old testament had to be attached to the new. The teachings of Jesus are so opposite to that of the old.
Hebrews 10-9, Then said He, Lo, I come to do thy will O God. He takes away the first, that He may establish the second.
Hebrews 8-13, In that He saith, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 8-7, For if that first covenant had been FAULTLESS, then no place would have been sought fr the second.
Hebrews 7-22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
2nd Corinthians 3-14, But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament, which veil is done away in Christ.
Matthew 5-38, You have heard that it has been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, that you resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5-43, You have heard that it has been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate your enemy. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you.
There are so many more scriptures that say the same thing. This is just a sample of the teachings of Jesus as being different from those of the O.T.
Love is the proof of the spirit. Try to demonstrate that instead of condemning people for seeing something so different from yourself.
I am not insulted personally by the responses I get from any of you here. God has proved to me that He is love, and it is by this method that I divide scriptures. The only law that Jesus had to fulfil was the law of love. Jesus did not carry on enforcing the old law. He replaced it with the new. No need for 613 commands to curse humanity with. Just love each other and God, and all the law was fulfilled. It's a shame that the old testament had to be attached to the new. The teachings of Jesus are so opposite to that of the old.
Hebrews 10-9, Then said He, Lo, I come to do thy will O God. He takes away the first, that He may establish the second.
Hebrews 8-13, In that He saith, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 8-7, For if that first covenant had been FAULTLESS, then no place would have been sought fr the second.
Hebrews 7-22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
2nd Corinthians 3-14, But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament, which veil is done away in Christ.
Matthew 5-38, You have heard that it has been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, that you resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5-43, You have heard that it has been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate your enemy. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you.
There are so many more scriptures that say the same thing. This is just a sample of the teachings of Jesus as being different from those of the O.T.
Love is the proof of the spirit. Try to demonstrate that instead of condemning people for seeing something so different from yourself.
