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Re: Let Us Convert Uncontacted Tribes! (Score: 1)
by Robocoastie on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 @ 23:23:59 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.robertreppert.com | one other comment about this. All the references of Christs redemption really point to his redemptive work on the cross, not actually believing it. John 3:16 it really seems that only later was "...that whosever believes..." was added. In the book of Acts they weren't even preaching to "get saved", only that Jesus was the supposed messiah so that their prophecies is now fulfilled. Why would this be necessary? Simple, the gospel records Jesus saying "one day my people will worship not on this hill or this temple, but in spirit and in truth." In like manner Jesus showed his disciples how to actually pray and worship which rubbed the pharisees the wrong way. So add all that up and you can see that the "true gospel" the apostles preached was that Jesus shattered the temple system, and now people are to communicate directly with god.
But then came another unfilled prophecy. The gospels record that some present would not taste death until the kindom was come. Of course they died anyway. So now the "church" needed to set up a whole new religion to explain this away and thus was added the "believe in him" part to gospel message, water baptism gets changed to a rite of membership, and they set up temples all over again. |
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