John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
As you know, I am Christian. I walk with God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I love reading the Bible and seek always to hear God speaking to me as I read the words. I receive messages from the Creator as I read the ancient stories, and I piece together the time prior to this eternity.
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow
Because He lives, all sin is gone
Because I know He holds the future
Life is worth the living just because He lives!
Those who have launched a campaign against the Bible saying the Bible has been corrupted are attempting to close off this vital means of God communicating with you. There are original translations if you are a purist that you can compare the words to.
I am currently reading the Old Testament version called the Septuagint. This is from the ancient Greek. I find this a very accurate version and feel God with me every morning as I receive His messages to me. I have read and studied the Aramaic New Testament translation. There are many versions of the Bible. I also recently acquired a copy of the Ethiopian Bible. This has many more ancient texts, although some are Gnostic texts which do not align with the overall teaching of the Bible. Most folks turn to the King James Version. Bibles can also have explanatory lessons and text added from biblical scholars, like the Women’s Study Bible. Where I am now in my research of Bible truths, wisdom, and awareness is to wait purely and solely on the Lord to speak to me as I read, study, and pray about His word and what it is directing me to know, understand, and do at this juncture of my life.
Those who say there is more than 1 Jesus are attempting to confuse you and dilute the gift. Jesus, who is by the way not called Son of God but Son of Man, made the sacrifice of giving His life on the cross to end all sacrifice and make a path, the only path, to Heaven with God, who is Creator.
The only Son of God, when we are talking about Jesus, who is God, is not the angel group called sons of God who were created along with the many other angel groups. Jesus Christ, who is Savior, is actually God Himself. And in that, He has been around since “forever.” He is not an angel, He is God. Where God walked on earth with Adam and Eve in the Garden and they could actually see Him, God again came, this time in a human form through a birth. He experienced life in a human body, called the Son of Man while alive, and was crucified, died, laid in a tomb, risen, and resurrected.
His life, birth, ministry, death, and resurrection, for hundreds of years prior to His birth, were predicted by the prophets over 300 times. So there may have been those who had some of the qualities of the man Jesus around the time He lived, but Jesus Christ, who was prophesied, is the one and only Lord and Savior. No other, not Mohammad, not Buddha, not Krishna, nor any other who may have walked a path of greatness. None were prophesied, anticipated, and lived out exactly what possibly 332 prophecies foretold and were fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. He is the one and only. Period. Full stop.
And in that knowledge, that He came and sacrificed Himself for each one of us, we celebrate as followers of Him the promise of the life to come and the steady walk with Him in our daily life.
John 14:18-23
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Happy and blessed Easter!
