Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
A lot of carnal (childish) unlearned christians are saying: “Jesus” is “the Lord”, and doing so by the Holy “Ghost” [for no “man” can say “Jesus” is the Lord “but by the Holy Ghost”: 1Cor 12:3]: http://www.godshew.org/RevelatorySermons11.htm
By and large most christians seem to be carnal, childish, unlearned, imputing sin for the hell of it, unaware it imputes sin to all; and when sin is finished it brings death. Such like are those of Corinth, notably those in “Christ Jesus”, which is the reverse of “Jesus Christ”.
Is it important? I think so, if the reversed person in the mirror is what “was” (not what is): James 1:24; And if becoming “alive” unto God, “eternal life”, “victory” [over sin and death], and “peace with God” are all notably through “Jesus => Christ” (not Christ Jesus, which only occurs from Acts 19 - 1Pet 5): http://www.godshew.org/GodShew5.htm
Who is Jesus? Well it depends on what Jesus you like, the Jesus of Christ Jesus by whom came division, not peace, or the Jesus of Jesus Christ, by whom came grace and truth, and thereby peace with God. And if you crucify Christ: the end of the law, well then, you end up with a dead end, since law is clearly a ministration of death. Lots of twists to a “mystery”.
It’s an “ALLEGORY” (Gal 4:24): http://www.godshew.org/Allegory.htm with a moral: grace is sufficient (no law req’d), and written aforetime for our “LEARNING” (Rom 15:4); even a triple “mystery” (Col 2:2) to be solved in time since there is neither mystery nor time in eternity.
Because there are lots of twists, the exhortation is to “take heed”, so you get the allegorical clues, and so you don’t get deceived… which many do, and by many themselves deceived (blind leading blind, is as adults being mentored by children, who are more the child of hell than former hypocrites, fools, vipers, and blind guides who sit in Moses’ seat: law - Mt 23.
Let’s realize it’s an allegory, a “shew” (plural of show): http://www.godshew.org/shew.htm, written aforetime, as scripture vs scripture. Not all scriptures(plural) are given by inspiration of God and profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Rather all “scripture” is: 2Tim 3:16. And there is a difference between “scriptures” and “scripture”, the same as there is a difference between the “generations” [of Adam] and the “generation” [of Jesus Christ]; not to mention a difference between a Holy Ghost and a Holy Spirit (one can be tempted, one cannot), God being a Spirit (not a Ghost), alive (not dead), merciful (not merciless).
It’s time we all got our head out of our ass and put it on our shoulder and used it for thinking. It’s time we used our God given senses to discern both good + evil ends badly, as badly as life + death, which is a dead end; and such is grace + law also blessed + cursed = accursed, and oxyMORON with a BAD ending. But the Bible has no such dead end for anyone, because the end thereof has no mention of law, only of grace, specifically the grace of JC, with you all, the KofG located within you (not ye). Ye suffer before, then you are made perfect after, and notably by “the God of all grace” (1Pet 5:10).
As for the movie: The Passion Of The Christ, it’s a bloody mess, unbiblical. The fact it’s endorsed by Billy goat Graham, majority of evangelicals, the evangelastic sort who say you too can have partiality from an impartial God, well, this oughta tell you something, like “many” go broad way, and such leads to destruction (death). They say Peace & Safety in Grace & Law; witch back fires on them as sudden destruction, the no escape sort of travail of a woman[church] with child [childish]: http://www.godshew.org/PassionMovieReview.htm
TgooLJCwya. Amen. www.godshew.org Daniel Miles
too much focus on blood
hi daniel, god shew and we glimpse.
no, you are not alone. i also think there was too much focus on the blood and pain that jesus took on himself when he was killed, in brother mel’s film. a good friend of mine called it “a catholic torture movie”. shocking. people came out stunned. usherettes had to counsel the film-goers. the narrative did include bits and pieces from the life of jesus before that point, and these were like tasters, hints…maybe people will go away and try to figure out why jesus let himself be tortured and murdered, or maybe, perhaps more productively, they will go away and try to read up about what jesus did and said in the rest of his life. i think his whole life was a “sacrifice” or better : his whole life was the GIFT that we so needed, a result of the GRACE that god extends to us. to focus on the death, like saint paul did repeatedly, just turns a lot of people off, and leaves them confused and untrusting.
and ANYWAY, even saint paul recognises that without the resurrection, our whole faith is meaningless ! and also, what is it going to be like to spend the whole of eternity in the company of mel gibson ?
bless,
jo.