My many thanks to the above named person and Publishers. John B.
The following statement is one of great importance, yet most know it not... to their own personal loss!
1) What was man's exalted position when he was created?
Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
NOTE(JB): We humans were not "Hatched", nor evolved for millions of years, this is Satan trying to prove by Human Scientists, that God id not needed, that given enough time dead stuff, would created life!I say, "The reason we still have apes in trees, is that they had no wish to be mistaken for PhD's!
2) How was man's loyalty to God tested?
Genesis 2:16-17 "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
NOTE(JB) There was no time frame mentioned for their death, agree? Adam died at 930 years of age.
Genesis 5:5 " And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
3) How did Satan turn our first Parents from allegiance to God?
2 Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." [Read Genesis3:1-6]
4) As the result of the fall {into sin] what change came in the relationship between men and God?
A) They became sinners in His sight!
Romans 5:12 " Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
Robert Blatchford's "God and My Neighbor" p. 159. "No Adam, no fal: no fall, no atonement needed, no need for atonement, no Savior. Accepting evolution, how can we then believe in the fall? When did man fall: was it before he ceased to be an ape, or after? Was it when he was a tree-man, or later? Was it in the Stone Age, or the Bronze Age, or in the age of iron?.... And if there was no fall why should we need atonement, a Savior,? (NOTE- JB):" If evolution is fact then why did Jesus need to died for our sins?" History, the human record, has admitted that Jesus Christ as the Messiah did indeed live and die, that's more than the zero proof for evolution!
B) They lost the open communion with God.
Genesis 3:23-24 "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, [ a high order of angels] and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
C) They were doomed to die.
Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
5) What burden fell upon the whole human family as the result of man's sin?
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
NOTE(JB) we from birth inherit the tendencies to sin. Some more than others! Unless and until we each, understand and recognize that we are lost to sin, can we come to God of our own free-will!
6) How sadly {and badly] has man been marred by sin?
A. His understanding has been darkened.
Ephesians 4:18-19 " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."
VS.20: "Ye have not so learned Christ" {Christ never taught us this]
B. His heart is full of evil...
Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
NOTE(JB) if YOU dear reader doubt this statement, how long have you been a hermit?
C. His conscience is defiled.
Titus 1:15-16 " Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. "
D. He is spiritually dead.
Colossians 2:13-14 "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;"
NOTE(JB) I their Biblical ignorance, they read this 14 th verse, without knowing there are TWO SETS of Laws, God's Ten Commandments that stand forever, and the Ceremonial laws written by Moses that Christ's life and death removed from mankind! Proving a "Little Knowledge is a danger"!
Plus, each person is whole, thus what effects the mind also carries over to the body!
7) How completely is man alienated from God?
Romans 8:6-7 " For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be"
NOTE(JB) have you begun to notice that for every negative, God has a positive door we can enter?
8) Are any excluded from condemnation?.
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith."
.Romans 3:22-24 "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"
9) How impotent is the sinner to work righteousness?
Jeremiah 13:23 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Note: C.G. McCown, "The Promise of His coming". p.6 "The heart of man is fundamentally wrong, and stands in need of a complete transformation."
10). How hopeless is man;s condition apart from God?
Ephesians 2:12-13 "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."
11) To what end must, therefore, unaided man inevitably come to?
Romans 8:6 " For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
Matthew 23:33 "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
NOTE: William Temple, "The Hope of a New World," Religion in Life Vol 10. #3, p.325.
"To a great many people the traditional language of Christians has become meaningless. It does not fit in their way of looking at life. They scarcely know what we mean by the word 'sin', supposing it to consist in consciously doing what is known or believed to be wrong. But this is one one part of the whole great fact of sin--- the visible part, so to speak. It is the symptom, not the disease; the inflammation, not the poison. All is sin that is short of God's will for it, and the essence of man's sin is his self-centeredness. But this is forgotten, and because people have so scanty an understanding of sin they attach no meaning what ever to redemption."
NOTE(JB) Please read again Mr Temple's observation, above!
12) What cry of despair may well come from the lips of the man who realizes his lost condition?
Romans 7:24 "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
13) Because it is impossible for man to save himself, what is our ONLY hope?
1 Chronicles 22:19 "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God;...."
" Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive."
Revelation 3:20 " Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
NOTE(JB) Pastor Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Church" said this "I'll not teach about sin, nor will I allow the book of Revelation to be taught in my church"! I ask "How does he handle this verse......
Revelation 1:3 " Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
Ca n YOU dear reader begin to understand the why of earth's 43,000 "Christian" (?) denominations? Denomination's root word meaning is denominator the number left over from DIVISION, now who but Satan is always dividing men from God? Please THINK! and read....
Matthew 24:4 "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you."
He spoke this three times in this very chapter and referred to it again twice about deceptions.
14: Through whom shall salvation come?
John 3:15-17 "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
NOTE(JB) There shall not be one single soul cast into to the Lake of fire io Revelation 19, UNLESS that ONE choose death over life eternal with Christ! The Father loves each of so much that if you want nothing to do with Him, He'll grant you your request! But know this for God is the very source of all life thus without Him death eternal, is all there is!
15) How universal is God's offer of mercy?
Romans 11:32 "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
16) How comprehensive is the plan of Salvation?
Hebrews 7:25-28 "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore."
17) Is there any other way of escape?
Acts 4:10-12 "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
18) What should be the sinner's response?
Psalms 51:2-3 "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me."
19) How is redemption compared with god's Creative work?
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
20) In what scripture does God declare Himself to be both Creator and Redeemer?\
Isaiah 43:1 " But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine."
Note(JB) All in Christ are of the seed of Abraham, thus Spiritual Israel!
NEXT: "Was Jesus Divine? YES!
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