Are they a local group? A national group or an international group?
Do they have a name?
Not sure how that relates to what I posted….
I am sure many “Christians” would agree with you….but how do you accomplish that with so much disagreement? And what laws would you be seeking to keep? Christ did away with “the curse of the law”….a perfect law given to imperfect people which acted as a constant reminder that a permanent solution was coming in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Now we are under the law of love.
Satan is a master of confusion….there is a diamond hiding in a world full of broken glass….how do we find it? How do we identify the diamond from the many fakes produced by the devil? Jesus said to look at their “fruits”…or the kinds of people they produce….he also told us how to identify his true disciples….
John 13:34-35..
”I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are my disciples—if you have love among yourselves.”
Where is the love? It will be shown in how well we take care of each other in a loving brotherhood that seeks to know and assist any who are in need, or who need help and encouragement in our local congregations. When disasters strike, where is our church? Are they rallying to assist their brothers? Local and overseas?
”Love among yourselves” is hands on….all in……and expecting nothing in return. Simply doing to others what we would want done for ourselves.
Indeed…..the love of the greater number was to grow cold….and that is exactly what we see…People cannot love what they do not trust…and trust has also been diminishing in a world full of greedy scammers. Not just the internet scammers, but even large Corporations and institutions who used to be trusted, have been exposed as money making rackets.
The law of Moses was only for Israel…..no other nation was chosen as God’s people and no other nation was under the law. The Israelites were born under law, obligated from birth to observe it….but no other nation was. Where do you get that idea? Gentiles had to choose to become Christians, and thereafter abide by the law of Christ, according to the dictates of their consequence, not just the rules written in a book.
And that was true at the time of writing…..God’s nation repeatedly lapsed into disobedience and sin, forcing God to discipline them, sometimes very severely. But he kept forgiving them until his purpose in connection with them was completed and he had brought his Christ into the world as their Messiah.
When they rejected him and had his son put to death, God rejected them and gave them over to the world, as we see that they have had no peace since then...and bloodshed has followed those who went back to their homeland…..no longer the Promised Land, but a land polluted with blood. (Isa 1:15)
Christian baptism begins with water, as Jesus was also baptized to begin his mission. We begin our Christian course with water baptism….only the elect undergo the baptism into Christ’s death (Rom 6:3)
The baptism of fire is for those who think that they can do as they please.. (Matt 3:11)
Exactly….those who do not know Yahweh and his son as they truly are, will not gain everlasting life. Apparently they don’t need to “know” the third party at all….
I too would like to know where this idea comes from as it is not chronologically accurate…..The war in heaven was not 6,000 years ago, nor was the earth ever deemed a prison planet….that seems to be more like a science fiction movie….The Revelation was written about our day and the human race will yet be the eternal inhabitants of paradise on earth as God first intended.
The scripture in Deut 20:15-20 is God’s warning to Israel…..he put “life or death” before them….not “heaven or hell“ as some believe. What he required of them was what he has always required of the human race….our willing obedience. What Satan did to us, Jesus came to undo….