Holy moly! What Bible do you use -- the CTV (Conspiracy Theorist Version)?Dear quietthinker,
The pathway to salvation is a little complicated but once a person understands it, it's not hard to "see" in scripture.
Have you ever wondered why Paul's conversion experience contains so many usual details? Those details are there to teach the pathway to salvation the Elect will travel.
Here is what Paul said about his conversion experience:
1Tim 1:16 Howbeit for this cause, I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Paul's conversion experience is a "type" which teaches the pathway to salvation.
The pathway to salvation is taught "here a little and there a little" (Isa 28:9-12) in most of the teachings of Christ and the Apostles. However, their teachings (like Paul's conversion) are presented in Christ's spiritual language so that only the converted Elect believers can understand them.
Here is a quick summary of the pathway:
Have you ever studied the verses in Acts 9 which teach Paul's conversion experience?
- The receiving of the Early Rain of the Spirit and entering the church.
- The coming of the spirit of anti-Christ to the believer and their consuming of leavened bread.
- Falling away, the Abomination of Desolation and becoming a Man of Sin.
- Hearing and answering the call of Elijah so that the pathway for Christ is made straight.
- The Second Coming of Christ when He pours out the Latter Rain of the Spirit and seals the Elect believer.
- Spiritual blindness is healed.
- Marriage Supper when the believer consumes milk, bread, meat and New Wine.
- From their knowledge of the truth, Christ spiritually appears and gathers the believer to dwell with Him in heaven.
- Judgment of the Day of the Lord arrives to the believer (for the Elect, it is called the Thousand Years Reign).
- Conversion.
- The time of testing.
- The bodily resurrection at the end of the age.
Joe
I would be doing a disservice to my brothers and sisters in Christ if I did not point out that this all is not just utterly wrong, but spectacularly so.
This theory is woven from loosely and/or tenuously associated verses and requires fantastical jumpings of conclusion to put together.