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Mary The man I trust is not alive today but he was sent to bring a message of God's grace to mankind. His name was Paul. Jesus sent him to me, and the world, with the message that God love me so much that He sent His Son to shed His righteous blood on a cross to pay for my sins of the flesh, past, present, and future, future because I still live in a body with a sinful nature.
One thing I find missing in religions is common sense.
God gave Moses the law of 10 commandment and Moses took them to the Jewish people. They set up a religion that had men as priests. It didn’t take long for the law to become 630 laws. Fast forward and we see that the men in charge who knew the law which stated that killing someone is a sin. But they had Jesus killed. So we see, with common sense, that those in charge were not men of God.
Fast forward to today’s RCC “”and the others of religions”” and we can see the same results. The religious leaders committed the sin of murder when they burned people at the stake. Somehow I can’t see Paul having people burned at a stake for not believing his gospel.
Mankind thinks that God has gone away and left people in the hands of men that can be deceived. I don’t think so. He gave us a better way and it is described in the Bible book Hebrews.
I can settle, for myself, where we got the Bible by saying this. God gave us the Bible. Yes men wrote it but God was in control of it. Have you not read in the Bible that God used a pagan king to chastise Israel when they left Him and started worshipping idols. He also used a pagan king to get the Temple rebuilt. And He used some to put together the writings of men of God.
So the fact is, God used some people to put the Bible together, but it was still the work of God that gave us the Bible. You wish to give man the glory for it but we can see that many of the things prophesied in the O.T. came true and it was given to them by God.
Churches do not tell people that Jesus atoned (paid) for all their sins on the cross. Paid for Mary, not just available. It was all finished on the cross. Mankind does not have to finish it by works of the flesh in religions. What they do have to do is believe it, have faith in it, trust in it, have confidence in His shed blood that paid for sins of the flesh.
When a person stands before God and states all the things they did in religion to get them into heaven He will say what did they do about the work of God (Jesus) on the cross. Did they trust in His work or in their work in a religion.
Water washing (water baptism) was a requirement under the law of Moses and was practiced by the Jews under their religion. The only batism for this age is the one that is accomplished by the Holy Spirit. Salvation is the work of God, not man's work.
1 Cor 6:11
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
NKJV In the above we see that we are washed (baptized) by the Spirit of God. Not by human hands.
My salvation is not in man’s religion. It is in my trust in God, not in men. I am in His care, not in the care of men.
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