GerhardEbersoehn
Well-Known Member
- Jan 14, 2014
- 6,308
- 575
- 113
- Faith
- Christian
- Country
- South Africa
Jesus was executed and then he was raised from the dead by God, Acts 4:10 tells us that. Jesus himself said at Matthew 20:28 that he came to give his life as a ransom in exchange for many. Hebrews 2:14 tells us that Jesus died. It is through Jesus death he brought to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is the Devil. One of the first things the apostle Paul said he handed to the Corinthian Congregation at 1Corinthians 15:3, 4 is that Christ died for our sins and was raised up on the third day. At 1Peter 1:3 the apostle Peter praises God and Father of our Lord Jesus for his mercy because he gave them a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Anyone who denies that Jesus was dead for three days and resurrected back to life on the third day will remain in their sins.
The devil has NO power; he is and had been a slain enemy since God's Plan of Salvation.
Besides, you contradict yourself claiming <<Jesus himself said that he came to give his life>> and at the same time persist in lying that <<the one having the means to cause death .. is the Devil.>>
Nonsense in any case! SIN is the cause of death--disobedience-- and man -you and I- is the means of death, "sin entered with one" = the first man. "The day that you, eat, you, shall die!" Sin became man's instrument of suicide; nothing and no one stood between man and death while he knowingly and deliberately, sinned.