Jesus Christ - The Author and Finisher of the Faith of Everyone Who Believes

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Dec 16, 2008 at 14:16

For those who have read the repetitious perspective of sTs and his attempts to dissuade disciples of Jesus Christ (and others of lesser faith) for the cause of his unbelief in who Jesus Christ really is, the question still remaining for sTs is that with so much information about the Holy Bible he claims to know, why does he think he stills needs to discredit Christianity if he is so confident of his belief in Islam. There is a reason, yet it is cloaked in the faulted human logic so many try to use to explain such things. Again, let us look at his checklist.

1. Adam sinned. How was his forgiveness procured? We read where animals died to provide the skins to cover his nakedness and shame, the first sacrifice for sin. Mankind IS under the curse of that sin(proof in this is found in the death of all mortal humankind from then until now), thus the need for a savior as prophesied in Genesis 3:15.

2. Jesus Christ recognized the only way for mankind to have any chance at salvation was for Him to be the sacrifice. Did that mean He thought it would be a breeze to offer Himself for that cause? Look at the garden of Gethsemane and the referenced Mark 15:34 and recognize in our meager understanding of such things we cannot come close to what He felt in doing this for us, except we are told it was done out of His love. Admitting that you do not believe in what Jesus Christ did does not take away the fact that what He did happened. Any admission of unbelief jeopardizes the eternal destiny of those deny who Jesus Christ is.

3. Look at the witness; Almighty God will never force worship from anyone, and Jesus Christ made that point plain. What He does though is provide the witness that He is the same as the Father and is to be worshipped. Several times when He was being worshipped, unbelievers, including the religious rulers of time, tried to stop the worship and what did He say? How about the time when such a thing happened, Jesus Christ said that even if the people did not worship, the very stones on the ground would. His worship began at the cradle, and continues to this day, because HE IS ALMIGHTY GOD!

4. This has been mentioned by sTs before, and it is a beautiful contradiction. The only way for Jesus Christ to be next to Almighty God (not allah, by the way), is that He did go to the cross and died for our sins, was raised from the dead on the third day for our justification, and arose to be with Almighty God the Father, where He waits for the Father's will to retake the earth from the Adversary (Satan taking power in the form of the anti-Christ) and enter into Jerusalem afterwards to finally establish the Kingdom of God on earth.

5. This is the same old argument that has it beginnings in the garden and continues to this day as the principle lies argued by the Adversary. If the Jews were in fact responsible for forging the Holy Bible, doesn't anyone think that they would have come out better than they have? No, in spite of the efforts that the unbelieving Jewish population in trying to ruin their own destiny, Almighty God has preserved His WORD and its integrity and continues to do so today. It requires belief for it to have spiritual effectiveness in any person's life.

6. This is anti-Semitism in its most virulent form, and is a demonstration of the hatred so many have for the Israeli people. There is no doubt that for their unbelief, the Israeli nation is under chastisement for unbelief, but in the final chapters we see the redemption come full circle to the Israeli nation and the remnant people upon the Spirit of Almighty God is poured out. Dispersed they were, but now they are back. Challenged they are, but Almighty God is still their LORD and He is perfecting His will in their lives, even as this is being written. In the end, the Kingdom of Almighty God is coming to rest in Jerusalem, and it will be Jesus Christ on the throne.

7. This is a circular reference to the above item 6. Deuteronomy is the plan for the entirety of Jewish destiny, from their placement in the land they now possess, the dispersal for their idolatries and unbelief, their restorations to show that they have not been abandoned, but are being prepared for the future as the center of the earth during the eternal reign of Jesus Christ, soon to come to pass.

8. This is the epilogue of this dissertation, that while acknowledging the Jewish people have been the example in chastisement and lesson to all peoples on how to relate to the Holy Bible, and the Holy God that is its Author and Executor, the eternal lesson must begin with a belief in Jesus Christ as LORD, which disciples of Jesus Christ have done in faith, and eventually the Jewish Nation will acknowledge that as well when the final chapters of prophecy are finished and closed.

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