So when we're tempted to sin, it's God's fault?
Do Christians Have To Follow The Old Testament?
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So when we're tempted to sin, it's God's fault?
God knew that Eve was too weak to ignore the devil. God knew that Adam was too weak to ignore Eve. God knew that Adam and Eve would both eat from that tree. If God didn't put that snake there they probably would have obeyed God. So God made it impossible for Adam and Eve not to sin, therefore it was God's intention for man to sin.
It was God's knowledge that man would Sin. This is why Christ came to the world as the New Adam, to do what Adam couldn't do.
Why would God allow any person to be ignorant of him? Shouldn't God reveal himself through miracles like in the past so nobody can deny him?
What did Jesus do? How is the world different now that Jesus has come?
Can you tell me what you believe?
I believe that God sent Jesus to make the world a better place, but I still see so much sin I question if Jesus really helped out mankind or not.
He saved us from condemnation and death? Of course he helped us!
I mean what do you believe on the broad spectrum. Who is God? What is God? Who is Jesus? What is Jesus? What is His purpose and what was it on earth? How is mankind to respond to Him? etc. etc. What is your faith?
So how would I die if Jesus never came? I just need clarification, thanks.
I'm Christian. God is the creator, Jesus is also God. Jesus came to help us. Mankind should follow him.
I just want to get a sense of why you're asking. Are you struggling with doubts? Or perhaps you just want to get a better understanding?
HisManySongs
Passed on, February 28, 2022
God hasn't changed His mind. The laws are now inside us, and no longer written on stone. The Law has a definite purpose in the world today, but not in the life of the Christian.
Romans 7:4
So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
Romans 8:4
He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
1 Timothy 1:9
For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders.
Aren't we still supposed to try and keep the Ten Commandments today? The answer to this question is---no.
Romans 3:28; 31
So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
31 Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.
The ceremonial and civil law were canceled because these applied distinctively to Israel and foreshadowed Christ's person and work.
Colossians 2:16-17
So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. 17 For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality.
Believers are now dead to the law's power to punish, condemn, and separate them from God. We are no longer under its curse.
Galatians 3:10-14
But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”
13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” 14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
God's grace is necessary---because the Law continues to be an impossible standard, and because it has no power to change us or produce the love it requires. Only faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of His word at work in our lives is able to do that.
Come. On. There was some formal judging that had to be done. Israel was not ruled by mobs.
Do you not know that all our sin was punished on the body of Jesus---that God's anger was EXHAUSTED on Him???
There are probably more sincere, born again Christians in China than in North America.
That is not the truth. Your beliefs are based on a false understanding of who Jesus is and why he came.
Can you tell me how you became a Christian and when?