Christianity

The Lord Jesus Christ revealed himself as the Chosen one (to redeem and to save men from the punishments of sins),the saviour, the Son of GOD.no other religion in this world has this truth that can save mankind from destruction of souls!even the islam who claims all knowing cannot matched what God did for the redemption and salvation of men through jesus christ-the SON of GOD!(not by allah/by buddha/or any dieties which were also created by God or minds of men)but by The lord jesus christ who will stand/ show himself to all nations -the alpha ang the omega-the beginning(of all creations) and the end(of all corrupted beings and things due to sins).

While the Gospel is an excellent way to discover a path to God, it is not the only way to do that.

in fact, the concept of God as a father figure leads to problems, for don't siblings always fight over the love of their parents?

there is no perfect way to find God or the path He wants you to walk. All are fraught with danger and deception. Only God is perfect.

Dawn

Amen!
Isaiah 53:1-11 (New Living Translation)

Isaiah 53

1 Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.

4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.

7 He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8 Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[b]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[c]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.
9 He had done no wrong
and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man’s grave.

10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins.
MIKE

For all those who claim that nobody called Jesus , "God" , in the Bible I offer the following compilation of quotes directly from Holy
Scripture:

1. Upon seeing the risen Christ, the doubting apostle Thomas exclaimed: "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28)

2. "Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and Our Savior, Jesus Christ." (Titus 2:13)

Saint Paul is referring here to the second coming of Christ in "glory," in contradistinction to His first coming in humility and meekness.
The "great God" and "our Savior" are both predicated to the same Person, Jesus Christ.

3. "And we know that the Son of God is come: and he hath given understanding that we may know the true God, and may be in his true
Son. This is the true God and life eternal." (1 John 5:20)

Saint John's two epistles and the introduction of the first chapter of his gospel (the last of his writings chronologically) were written to
refute the incredulous gnostics who, thinking to honor Christ as a mere man, they dissolved Him of His divinity, thus meriting for
themselves this severe condemnation from the beloved apostle: "And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God: and this is
Antichrist ..." (1 John 4:3)

In chapter five of his epistle given above Saint John makes use of the demonstrative pronoun "this" in reference to its antecedent "true
Son." God and "life eternal" are interchangeable. Thus we find at the start of the same letter the concept "life eternal" supposited for Son
of God: "We declare unto you the life eternal which was with the Father, and hath appeared to us" (1 John 1:2)

Jesus = Son of God = life eternal = true God

4. "From whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all things God blessed forever." (Romans 9:5)

5. "In this we have known the charity of God, because He hath laid down his life for us ..." (1 John 3:16)

It is Christ then, Who is "over all," and Christ Who is "God blessed forever." Whose love was made known by Our Lord's sacrificial
death? God's love, says Saint John. Therefore God laid down His life for us. God was hung upon the cross at Calvary. Could the two
apostles have made themselves more clear?

6. "Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, 'God with
us.' (Matt. 1:23 & Isa. 7:14)

7. "Say to the fainthearted: Take courage ... God himself will come and will save you." (Isaias 35:4)

8. "For a child is born to us and a son is given to us ... and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, God the Mighty, the Father of
the world to come, Prince of Peace." (Isaias 9:6)



The Claims Of Jesus

I often hear the claim of non -Christians that Jesus never claimed to be the Messias. Let us see what Holy Scripture actually says.

Our Lord claimed to be God, the judge of all men: " When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the Angels with him, he will sit down
upon the throne of his glory and all nations shall be gathered into his presence.... ( Matt. 12:8 )

Jesus claimed to be all-powerful, a Divine person, equal to the Father in power, and to be in fact, God the son:

" All power is given to me in heaven and in earth" (Matt.28:18). " All things are delivered to me by the Father; and no one knoweth who
the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal him." ( Luke 10:22)

On the occasion of His trial before the High Priest, Jesus was asked: " Art thou the Christ, the son of the blessed God? Jesus said to
him I am." The priest understood this as blasphemy: "He has blasphemed." (Mark 14:61-64; Matt. 26:63-66) What was the blasphemy if
not that Jesus claimed to be the true Son of God? In John chapter 8 verse 58 Our Lord makes a similar claim when He says : " Before
Abraham was made I am." We also read from Saint John:

" For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whomsoever He will." (John 5:22-23). " Now glorify
thou me, O Father, with Thyself.... all my things are thine, and thine are mine." (John 17:5,10).

It is clear too, that the Jews understood Jesus to be claiming to be God:

" But for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." (John 10:33) Before Pilate : " The Jews answered him:
We have a law; and according to the law, he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." (John 19:7)

Our Lord also did certain acts which are in themselves an implicit claim to the Divinity. He forgave sins as of His own independent
power: " Son, thy sins are forgiven thee." But the scribes who were present thought to themselves, " Who can forgive sins, but God
only.... " But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on heaven and earth to forgive sins...." (Mark 2:5-12). To Mary
Magdalen: " Thy sins are forgiven." (Luke 8:48).

Christ Performed Real Miracles

Christ Foretold the Future

The Crown of All Miracles, His Own Resurrection

As a witness to His divinity, the resurrection has a threefold value: it is not only a miracle, but also the fullfillment of a prophecy, and it
was the preaching of the Gospel of the Resurrection that converted the world to the Religion of Christ.

Fulfillment of a prophecy:

To His disciples Jesus said: " The Son of Man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death,
and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day He shall rise again" (Matt. 20: 18-19)

Ok now see THIS is the bullshit that I find boring.

Jesus was a loyal Jew. Therefore, I do not believe that he would reveal himself as the chosen one to redeem and to save men as the saviour, the Son of God. And you are totally
mistaken to claim that no other religion in this world has this truth that can save mankind from destruction of souls.
It means you are completely unaware of the Scriptures. Would you please, read Exodus 4:22,23. "Israel is My Son. So, let My Son go that he may serve Me."

Now, go to Genesis 8:21,22. Soon after the Flood, the Lord promised Noah that He would never allow another catastrophe of the size of the Flood to end with Mankind again as long as cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.

Jeremiah must have read that passage of Genesis, and had a vision that, as long as the sun is in the sky for a light by day, and the moon and stars for lights by night, Israel will remain as a People before the Lord forever. (Jer. 31:35-37) It means that Israel would be the pledge to keep Mankind safe from universal catastrophes.

No wonder, in a dialogue with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob, Jesus said that salvation comes from the Jews. Notice that he did not say from one among the Jews but from the Jews as a People. (John 4:22)