Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!

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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"

What are you talking about?
Every Christian discussion site is nothing but believers in God and His word!

Unfortunately, believing in God's word by itself will avail nothing.

Strong's: "pisteuo means NOT just to believe".
 

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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"

I believe you are taking it for granted that your OP is self-evident in its meaning and therefore there is no misunderstanding in what you mean. I beg to differ. The audience here can be wide, and it is.

Your OP could mean your God is the impersonal nondescript Triune/Tri-part god who has a shared divine nature. And you could mean your eternal 'Word' is a divine god as the same as your nondescript Triune god and also called the Son of the Triune god. I'm guessing you believe in this one..

Or, you could mean the your God is YHWH, the LORD, with a very distinct, one and only, indivisible perfect divine nature with a unique personal name that means 'I will be who I will be' or 'I am that I am.' That is my God and LORD. And you could also mean that the logo/word is the intrinsic expression or voice of YHWH placed into his human Son, called Yahshua. And this is my Lord and Savior, the one with one perfect nature, that is human, of a man and not divine. YHWH did not and could not share his own divine nature with no one. Impossible! He is above all creation, before time and is ONE.

Of course there are other God/word models to choose from like a few that believe in a 3 mode versus a 3 personality Triune god. Or the diversification in flesh and one spirit model.

Regardless of which one is 'yours,' this attack on your model the first one I believe has been going on since the 2nd century AD. Nothing new here to see. If anything is new today, folks are starting to question 'your' model, the 3 personality, with the many creative analogies to try and explain it in its extra-biblical form, as in the '3 states of water,' '3 legs of a stool,' etc. And that this god shares his one divine nature, as found in pagan and early Greek sources.

And I think it is about time and long overdue to question once and for all, how can the Greek transliterated word 'logos' for the English 'word,' ever become a person. And how can the sole owner of divinity, of YHWH, 400 - 500 years after John wrote Revelation, suddenly become a split shared nature of 3 personalities; forced upon people under extreme political and military coercion. John would be amazed to find out that his words for his God and Savior became 'alien beings' to him.

If you consider now that your 'god' and 'word' are under attack, then that is a good thing. IMO

Waiting and eager to see my Christ, the only Son of his Father, YHWH.

Bless you,

APAK
 
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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"

It has been under attack ever since it was written down or printed.
Approach your nearest school and offer to take lessons on the authority and accuracy of the Bible and see what reception you get.
 
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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"
I wonder what you would have considered the eras of Domitian, Decius and Diocletion, or the rise of Islam and the Ottoman Empire, or the Enlightenment and Age of reason, to be signs of? The first, middle or partial days?
 
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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"

Yes.
In brief...
Jesus Descends From Heaven TO the Clouds...
While Jesus IS IN the Clouds..(He being Neither IN Heaven or ON Earth)...He Orchestrates, what is Happening...ON Earth;
Resurrecting the Already Prepare Whole...
Making Others saved...(saving their soul and quickening their spirit), body's DIE, not yet resurrected.
Making Others in belief remain, Mortally Alive, to repopulate the Earth. (For 1,000 years).
Directing the Earth/Weather/Diseases to Kill, those Committed to Satan.
Binds Satan and other fallen Angels in hell for 1,000 years.
The resurrected (to the Clouds Whole) See for the first Time their Lord God, and celebrate their Joining with Him.
OT saints are Guests and Witnesses of the Joining.
Afterward, (the destruction, removal of Unbelievers, Jesus Returns to Earth, to His Land Inheritance, His Holy City, His Throne (established by God, and occupied by king David), and His Bride (those resurrected Whole and Immortal and having been Joined with Him), and His Other saints...To His Kingdom...encompassing the Land Promised Abraham and his descendants...and the Same of king Davids Throne in Jerusalem.
For 1,000 years...Jesus' saints will occupy Jesus' Kingdom with Him...and Mortals, will Be building their own cities, have their own governing powers...
(Perhaps being taught and guided by saints/ speculation)...
The government's Leaders of Mortals, will be instructed to make a yearly Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Most will....at first....as generations, progress...new government Leaders (some), will stop going on the Pilgrimage, and begins once Again to Effect, disbelief IN the Lord God.
After 1,000 years expires...Satan and his FOLLOWING of fallen Angels are loosened from hell, return to Earth, to "again" influence the unbelieving mortals to follow him, make allegiance with him...and again, many mortals will follow him.
There after...battles/ Warring between holy and fallen spirits ensue...
Holy spirits overcome the fallen Angels...
And thereafter Judgement Day...
The Resurrected, all other bodies Resurrected, judgement, sentencing...
The Earth and Heaven Renewed...
The Barrier (firmament) between Heaven and Earth Opened.
Occupants of Heaven and Earth are limited to those Created holy spirits and mortals MADE immortal, glorious, Wholly Whole and holy Forever with their Lord God Almighty.
And all that WAS and Remained unholy, destroyed AND or burned.

Glory to God,
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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!

Luke 18:8 When Jesus returns, will He find faith on the earth?"
The evidence of this is the churches that teach that tradition supercedes the Bible; Liberal churches who follow Bishop Spong's teaching which denies the virgin birth, resurrection of Christ, God as a real person, the Jesus of history, and boils the Christian faith down to living morally, being tolerant to all religions as part of "our community of faith"; that the Bible is not the Word of God, but contains religious insights that could be the Word of God for us. These ones, when they mention God, Christ, and faith, they define these words quite differently to evangelical Christians.

So the main attack on the Bible are the religious people who say, "Has God really said?" Just like the talking snake told Eve in the garden of Eden.

In the late sixties, I visited a coffee bar (previous version of a night club) in which a guy with a big arrogant noise, playing a guitar, and singing: "It Ain't Necessarily So", for the benefit of the Christians who were performing part of their "Midnight Rescue Crusade" in night coffee bars around the city.

John Lennon's "Imagine", George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" are also attacks on the Bible, directed at the young people who eagerly listened and believed those songs.
 
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I believe you are taking it for granted that your OP is self-evident in its meaning and therefore there is no misunderstanding in what you mean. I beg to differ. The audience here can be wide, and it is.

Your OP could mean your God is the impersonal nondescript Triune/Tri-part god who has a shared divine nature. And you could mean your eternal 'Word' is a divine god as the same as your nondescript Triune god and also called the Son of the Triune god. I'm guessing you believe in this one..

Or, you could mean the your God is YHWH, the LORD, with a very distinct, one and only, indivisible perfect divine nature with a unique personal name that means 'I will be who I will be' or 'I am that I am.' That is my God and LORD. And you could also mean that the logo/word is the intrinsic expression or voice of YHWH placed into his human Son, called Yahshua. And this is my Lord and Savior, the one with one perfect nature, that is human, of a man and not divine. YHWH did not and could not share his own divine nature with no one. Impossible! He is above all creation, before time and is ONE.

Of course there are other God/word models to choose from like a few that believe in a 3 mode versus a 3 personality Triune god. Or the diversification in flesh and one spirit model.

Regardless of which one is 'yours,' this attack on your model the first one I believe has been going on since the 2nd century AD. Nothing new here to see. If anything is new today, folks are starting to question 'your' model, the 3 personality, with the many creative analogies to try and explain it in its extra-biblical form, as in the '3 states of water,' '3 legs of a stool,' etc. And that this god shares his one divine nature, as found in pagan and early Greek sources.

And I think it is about time and long overdue to question once and for all, how can the Greek transliterated word 'logos' for the English 'word,' ever become a person. And how can the sole owner of divinity, of YHWH, 400 - 500 years after John wrote Revelation, suddenly become a split shared nature of 3 personalities; forced upon people under extreme political and military coercion. John would be amazed to find out that his words for his God and Savior became 'alien beings' to him.

If you consider now that your 'god' and 'word' are under attack, then that is a good thing. IMO

Waiting and eager to see my Christ, the only Son of his Father, YHWH.

Bless you,

APAK
God bless, hallelujah!
...if that is GysMis' grounds for claiming that his church is under attack, then let me be the first to lead the battalion (next to you of course)!
 
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God bless, hallelujah!
...if that is GysMis' grounds for claiming that his church is under attack, then let me be the first to lead the battalion (next to you of course)!
Amen to that, indeed..APAK
 
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Belief in God and the Truth of His Eternal Word is under Attack today!=Signs of the last days!
Signs? (besides His Word already says plainly , in the first century, "we are in the last hours" .... or is that mis-translated ? )

Fine, God's Word is under attack.
Fine, the world hates Jesus, and hates Jesus' followers, and hates almost everyone...
Fine, the world is doomed...
Fine, men have no idea which way to turn, who to trust, throughout the whole world...
Fine, so men join in groups, large and small, countries and cliques, to get what they want...
Fine, so men instead of turning to God, hate Him and reject Him DAILY...
Fine, a famine of the hearing of the Word of God was sent by God as written...
Fine, honesty is hard or impossible to find today , anywhere....
Fine, mankind exalts and lifts up and extols what God hates ....
Fine?

Sure,
God already knew it would happen, and made perfect provision for His Own Plan of Salvation for His people.

Nothing surprises God, ever.

Turn to Him. (Yes, His Kingdom IS AT HAND TODAY)