Do you belong to "the [true] Church" (1 Tim 3:15)?, if so, how do you prove it?

[Paul Christensen]

Ye and the catholics took that very same book and murdered millions of christians and Jews based on there understanding and corrupt doctrines, and millions of peope lin this world are slaveds to religions all based on that very same book, because they refuse to, will not go to Christ.

Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

and that is why so few christians have any life and why so few will be at His wedding feast.

It doesn't matter how a religious organisation used the book. I have an iPad. I can use it to watch Christian messages and post on a Christian forum, or I can use it to watch pornography. It is not the iPad that is at fault, but how I use it. It is the same with my motor car. I can use it to go to the supermarket to get the groceries, or I can hoon around town hitting as many pedestrians as I can. It is not the motor car but how I use it.

So to reject the Bible because people use it in the wrong way, is a very weak excuse for evading your moral responsibility before God as set out in the Bible.

You are going to die one day, and you won't know when that will be. Then you will stand before God in the judgment. The books will be opened, including the Bible and you will be judged according to what is written in the Bible whether you want to or not. And if you haven't honoured what God said in the Bible and have put your trust in a jesus who is not the Jesus of the Bible, your name will not be written in the book of life.

I think that you are in terrible danger, and it would grieve me if you went to hell because you rejected the Bible as God's holy Word to you, and committed idolatry by having a jesus image in your mind instead of the Jesus of the gospels.

I can't make you accept what I am saying to you. All I can do is warn you. And because I have clearly warned you, your blood will not be on my hands in the judgment.

 

[mjrhealth]

So to reject the Bible because people use it in the wrong way, is a very weak excuse for evading your moral responsibility before God as set out in the Bible.

I never said I rejected the bible, that is your play on words, and I could not ever replace the living word , Jesus Christ with a book, you know that bit about. they worship me with there lips but there hearts are far from me,
as for danger, which JEsus do you worship,

The catholic one,
the JW one
the SDA one
the Morman one
the " put your religion in here", one

or
Teh KJ one
teh NIV one
the NKJ one
the ASV one
the " put your bible version in here" one.

Jesus is the Word of God, and anyone who does not know Him will not make it to His wedding feast. reading the bible is no relationship with Christ. so many say they love Him but refuse His company.

 

[Paul Christensen]

You missed the point.

That your good deeds are going to save you on the day of judgment?

 

[Paul Christensen]

I never said I rejected the bible, that is your play on words, and I could not ever replace the living word , Jesus Christ with a book, you know that bit about. they worship me with there lips but there hearts are far from me,
as for danger, which JEsus do you worship,

The catholic one,
the JW one
the SDA one
the Morman one
the " put your religion in here", one

or
Teh KJ one
teh NIV one
the NKJ one
the ASV one
the " put your bible version in here" one.

Jesus is the Word of God, and anyone who does not know Him will not make it to His wedding feast. reading the bible is no relationship with Christ. so many say they love Him but refuse His company.

I have warned you. Let the God of the Bible be the judge between you and me.

 

[mjrhealth]

Warn me of what, trusting Jesus, having faith in the one who is the truth.

And there is no God of the bible only this one.

Mat_22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

 

[Cooper]

That your good deeds are going to save you on the day of judgment?

Wrong. Try reading it again, especially the conclusion.
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[Dave M]

The question logically comes, "Why does a person need to be born again?" The apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:1 says, "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins" (NKJV). To the Romans he wrote, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Sinners are spiritually “dead”; when they receive spiritual life through faith in Christ, the Bible likens it to a rebirth. Only those who are born again have their sins forgiven and have a relationship with God.

How does that come to be? Ephesians 2:8-9 states, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast." When one is saved, he/she has been born again, spiritually renewed, and is now a child of God by right of new birth. Trusting in Jesus Christ, the One who paid the penalty of sin when He died on the cross, is the means to be "born again." "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

What does it mean to be a born again Christian? | GotQuestions.org

 

[Taken]

to see if you belong to the church, one would need to see if they are truly born again,,, 1John has the test of faith.

here is a good start to test yourself

1 John 2:4-6
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Yes!

The Revealing is:
Two Great Commands revealed by Jesus:

Matt 22:
[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

A man can not Love the Lord, (if he doesn't believe in Him)
A man can not, Love the Lord thy God, If he doesn't believe in the Lord, thy God)
A man can not, love his neighbor (if he is constant dislike and disagreement with him)
A man can not love himself (if the man's heart and mind are in constant disagreement)

The Fact is:
Men "alone" (by their own WILL and MIGHT (power) can not accomplish fulfillment of those TWO commandments upon which hangs the "entirety" of the law.

The Fact is:
A man WITH and IN Christ, and Christ WITH and IN a man...
Via His (Power within IS), IS precisely HOW, a man, CAN, always, OBEY those TWO Great Commands.

A man reading those Commands, and thinking, hey, I'll try that, will fail every time.

A man WITH Gods POWER within Him, and "Yields to that Power", will succeed keeping those commands.

The "yielding" is a process. It is Strong and Becomes Stronger as the man continues to Learn, Read, Continue walking Spiritually with the Lord God.

The "yielding", becomes "problematic" for the man, when he Favors spending his time "walking in the ways of the world". (Not saying such a man, is not Saved)... But am saying, the man "listens" to the world's solutions for combatting "strife", (disagreemts, disease, hardships, diplomacy, etc.), rather than God.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Joseph77]

Do you belong to "the [true] Church" (1 Tim 3:15)?, if so, how do you prove it?

anecdotal testimony:

from china:

the only place I've read in public news/ forums/ anywhere,

the holy ones , ekklesia,

are recognized by their neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, and authorities

as distinct , different, and not living as their neighbors are, nor their friends , family, co-workers or authorities,

but are known as the people of Jesus, God, the One Creator(there being no other),

by the lives they live every day, all day long, without contradiction, without hypocrisy ----

changed lives ---- totally different.