Hi BADecker,
What exactly is so fictional about these writings, and how do you judge this to be so?
If you mean fiction in the Journals...
Who cares? It isn't the individual words that are fictional. After all, words have real meaning.
It may not be some facts in the Journals that are fictional. All science fiction has a little (sometimes a lot) fact in it to make it realistic.
And who knows if you are lying about the Journals or not, when you say that they express that you can get to Heaven by works. Nobody needs the Journals for that, even if the Journals truly say that, because people can have the Bible that has been around for a long time for that.
Why is it that you would need to assert that God used the hand of many different men to add content to the Gospels because "they were incomplete the first time around"?
This question is not answerable because it seems to be based on an assumption that suggests that I have such a need.
And why all of the fictional stories in the Bible--like the one where the child Isaac is terrorized and threatened with death so that God can "teach his father a lesson"?
Nobody knows that any stories in the Bible are fictional. Traditionally, the Hebrew people say that they are real. This tradition has been handed down, parents to children, from the times that they happened, through the ages. The fictional stories are the ones that tried to get into the Bible, but that you won't find within it, because the test of any so-called prophet that tried to push such a story into the Bible, showed that he wasn't a prophet, and so the story was left out.
I can understand how you would find terror in the story of Abraham that you mentioned. Anybody believing in the Journals should be terrified when he sees God in action.
Then, you allege that Jesus is my savior even though he never suggested that;
The fact that you are alive, shows that Jesus is your Savior for this life. He is the only reason that the earth, and probably the universe, remained, in the face of the sin of mankind back near the Beginning.
Will Jesus be your Savior for eternity? That's a question, the answer to which, remains to be seen.
your "Doctrine of Paul" states something to the effect, "You need do NOTHING to receive God's Blessings and Grace". This sounds a bit like the "just BE" philosophy of many New Agers, does it not?
I was not aware that I had a "Doctrine of Paul." What evidence do you have that I have such a doctrine?
If you are talking about salvation by Jesus, you are mistaken in your understanding. The fact is, you can do nothing to gain salvation. Nobody has the strength that it takes to do something that will gain him/her salvation. If people had such strength, the ones that did would prove it by living, say, 500 years or more in this life. That still wouldn't prove it, but it would be a start.
Furthermore, do you not propose that we all join a church and therefore a cult?
That I am aware of, I have not proposed this, nor am I proposing it now. Why do you keep trying to twist things? The fact that you continually attempt to twist things, shows exactly what is to be expected for someone steeped in the Journals... constant twisting, simply because their base is false.
I think we should first define the terms so we have explicit understanding of meaning.
1. Cults: A system of religious rites and observances; zealous devotion to a person, ideal, or thing.
I assume that even though the author claims to even be a “Christian Pastor” of a Church called Calvary Chapel, that he does not consider that they, or himself, is a member of a cult? How can you be a member of a church (body of--) without falling into this category by pure definition?
I am guilty--one hundred percent totally guilty. I come in total service to God of Light, the Christ Truth, the Creation of Godness and the Laws of God and The Creation as given forth for Mankind. The Christ energy, having acquired his Godness, comes again with the Hosts of which I am in Command--I don’t believe you can get much closer than that, my friends.
So, Hatonn serves God of Light, the Christ Truth.
Anyone who doesn't profess to salvation by Jesus as is taught in the Bible, and especially if he speaks against it, any truth he has is incidental, and he is promoting damnation for all who follow him.
Who do YOU serve, BADecker?
Does it matter Who I serve? You serve the devil or a host of devils.
Why would you assert that your book is truth and mine is not when you don't even have any facts to support that claim?
If you are talking about the Bible here, I only have a couple of copies.
The history of the people of Israel, and how the Bible was put together over the hundreds of years that it took, and how God has kept the teaching alive, and how the Holy Spirit works through the words of the Bible, show that the Bible can't exist. It is impossible for a book like the Bible to exist by the odds. Because of this, there is strength in it.
Why do you reject outright the possibility that God may have sent messengers
JUST AS PROMISED?
I have noted that the true WORD OF GOD--AND GOD IS THE WORD, is totally understandable without interpretation--the commandments (laws) are explicit in every detail from “...not kill” to “...no adultery”. It certainly requires no self-styled “preacher” to foist off his opinions on an unsuspecting and unthinking public because he deceives them into thinking he is somehow better or more informed than they.
God most certainly has sent messengers just as He promised. All you need do to see what they have to say is read the Bible.
The commands to follow the moral laws are not the point. Many religions have moral commands in whatever law they express. Let me state again. It isn't the laws, or the learning of the laws, or the keeping of the laws that counts. Rather,
it is the keeping of the laws PERFECTLY that counts.
How can we tell when someone has kept the laws perfectly? We can tell when we see a person who does not die.
How can we tell when a person has the strength of God? We can tell this if, when he dies, he then comes back to life in such a way that He cannot die again, forever.
There is only One Person Who has done this. It is Jesus Christ of the Bible.