| During his ministry,
Jesus Christ gave us an insight into the basic
requirements of what would be pleasing to God. |
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| Yes, its called
Christianity. To start with all Christians were
Jews who had listened to the words of our Lord
and his Disciples. |
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| My main aim is
to bring people to an understanding that all
believers in Christ are precious to God |
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| Through knowledge
we come to have understanding. Without knowledge
we simply rely on others for truth |
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Who is Jesus Christ?
We know that his disciples came to realise that he was The Christ,
the long awaited Messiah. However, he was more than this, he was
actually God made Man. It seems the Disciples did not come to realise
this until after his death and resurrection. The one Disciple who
had a deeper understanding than all the others was apostle John.
The apostle Peter was the first to realise he was The Christ but
John understood the greater truth as he records in the opening
words of The Gospel According to John Chapter 1 verse 1:
'In the beginning was The Word
and The Word was with God
and The Word was God'.
Before being born a man, Jesus was 'The Word'
and through him
God created all things.
John
6:38 , "I came down from heaven." "I am
the living bread which came down from heaven." ( verse
51 .) The Jews disbelieved this claim, and
said, "How can this be?" And many of his disciples, when
they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying, who can hear
it?" ( verse 60 .)
"When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it,
he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if you shall
see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before?" But "from
that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with
him" ( verses 61-66 ), because of this
claim of heavenly origin and pre-human existence.
Again, we find him before the Pharisees declaring the same truth,
saying, "I know whence I came and whither I go....I am from above,
I am not of this world;...I proceeded forth and came from God;
neither came I of myself,
but he sent me....It is my Father that honoreth me, and if I should say I know
him not I shall be a liar" John 8:14,23,42,54,55 . Then
said the Pharisees, "Art thou greater
than our father Abraham?" Jesus answered, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to
see my day, and he saw it and was glad." "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou
art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? [Abraham had been
dead two thousand years.] Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto
you, 'Before Abraham was I Am.'
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Jesus said, 'I am the Way, The Truth and The Life,
no one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known
me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth
you know him, and have seen him'.
St. John said in Chapter 3 of his Gospel: 'For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that
believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not
is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name
of the only begotten Son of God.'
St. Paul said in his letter to Timothy Chapter 2 Verse 5 'For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all'. |
