tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post8392585045970558256..comments2024-01-04T03:48:46.920-08:00Comments on Reinventing the Adventist Wheel: from The Christ - He Is Not the Savior of the FallenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-28204861653588853232012-06-17T21:54:44.691-07:002012-06-17T21:54:44.691-07:00First: Genesis chapters 1 & 2 are not separate...First: Genesis chapters 1 & 2 are not separate stories of two different creations. If I understood that incorrectly please forgive me. Chapter One is forward and introduction of God to us. The "who" of both God and humans; where only the important facts are highlighted.<br />Chapter Two is the giving of the details and the rest of the story continuing on to the final chapter, of both the "story" and this world.<br />Second: Why would anyone want to jettison following Christ in favor of participating in this world?<br />Third: Who is Jesus to you if not our/your <br />Saviour?<br />What was the point of His having come to earth and dying on the cross? As the angel told Joseph, "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS."? (Matthew 1:21) If not "real" sin, then what was the angel referring to?<br />Fourth: By "saving" us from sin, is it not possible that "...He made Himself SIN for us, who new no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (II Corinthians 5:21)? Which brings to mind this question-- what do you think "sin" is? or was?<br />Fifth: Was dying the final death of separation from God not an act of salvation? He was saving us that penalty. To consider otherwise is to accept the lie of the serpent, satan/Lucifer/the dragon, etc..<br />Sixth: It was not "disobEdience" their eyes were opened to it was their "dis-OBAISIANCE" -- their lack of believing the words and telling of the results of choosing away from truth and into lies/death."<br />That word means to "give up to", to "give over to", to "surrender to", to "give deference to". The word OBAY is to defer to a higher authority (as in knowledge, experience,understanding, and wisdom)to trust what is not known by us but is by another. Obaisiance: deference to God, who has ALL knowledge and authority. Not "mind Me or else" authority, but the authority of His knowledge, wisdom, understanding, yes, experience. That original pair chose to not trust in One they knew in order to trust one they knew not. God is the source of Life, Lucifer is the source of death. They chose death over Life. How smart is that?<br />Remember, Jesus said, "...no [one] man cometh unto the Father but by Me." (John 14:6(b)) If He has not saved us, from everlasting nothingness/death, then who?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com