No Other Way
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Jesus taught to love everybody. His religion was Love. He was not a Christian.
He said he was a son of god and that we are children of god. He never placed himself above others. He was in service to others. That was his message. Paul came along and created a religion based on Jesus, but not on his teachings but on the deification of Jesus. His great epiphany on the road to Damascus was that he could lead this new, revised Jewish doctrine instead of persecuting them. He is the one who decided to take the message to the gentiles. Jesus was a rabbi who came to update the Jewish religion. Paul messed the whole thing up.
He said he was a son of god and that we are children of god. He never placed himself above others. He was in service to others. That was his message. Paul came along and created a religion based on Jesus, but not on his teachings but on the deification of Jesus. His great epiphany on the road to Damascus was that he could lead this new, revised Jewish doctrine instead of persecuting them. He is the one who decided to take the message to the gentiles. Jesus was a rabbi who came to update the Jewish religion. Paul messed the whole thing up.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." (1 John 4:7 NIV)
and everybody who hates is also born of god. If god created everybody, then this must be true.
I wonder did Saul love Stephan when he stood there and watched him get stoned to death. Or did he get to be born of god later.
She doesn't answer questions. She just talks down to the unwashed masses dispensing her infinite wisdom.
Similar to a Benny Hinn interview. Answers questions with a question to the one asking.
John, the apostle.
"Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." (1 Peter 1:17-23 NIV)
"Born again" is a term used by Jesus and the apostles to describe the spiritual regeneration of believers, gh.
"Baptized at birth catholic" is a category. We are not judged by association. Rather, we are saved by (personal) faith.
And when you want to call attention to it, you should let out a thistle apostle epistle whistle.
(By the way, the thistle is a symbol of Scotland. Wales is the leek.)