AND it was important for Jesus to be tempted by all earthly sin to be a perfect example...What does that mean?
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that you like to ask thought-provoking questions to get a rise out of the religious right.  Kudos.
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Jesus had to die so that we could all be saved.  If he didnt then no one could go to heaven because no one is perfect except him.  (Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit )(Gal. 3:13)  Faith and deeds are one in hand, According to James, (But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds.\n"Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.) James 2:14-25
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It was part of God's plan for the human race for Jesus Christ to die for the sins of the human race.  He was the Last Adam (the last perfect man born as Adam was created) so He was the only One qualified to die for our sins.  Fortunately for us He didn't disobey God as Adam did and He was able to do what He did or we wouldn't have the opportunity to believe in Him that He paid the penalty for our sins.
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For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. (Heb 2:1)\n\nTherefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat sown at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb 12:1-2)\n\n"every encumberance": Different from the "sin" mentioned next, this refers to the main encumbrance weighing down the Hebrews which was the Levitical system with its stifling legalism. The athlete would strip away every piece of unnecesssary clothing before competing in the race.  The outward things emphasized b y the Levitical system not only impede, they "entagle." (Good ? to ask, Why am I "weighed" down? By what am I weighed down? Church, religion, legalism, programs, ect.?)\n\n"sin": In this context, this focuses first on the particular sin of unbelief--refusing to trun away from the Levitical sacrifices to the perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ, as well as other sins cherished by the unbeliever.  (Am I living "IN" sin? Am I a fruit bearer?)\n\nLet's lay aside every "ENCUMBRANCE" and "SIN" which so easily entagles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us!!  Pray, pray, and pray!!!\n\nThe Lord showed me 3 disciplines to focus on; 3 things that matter....\n\n1. reading the Word\n2. Prayer\n3. seeking and saving the lost (Biblical Evangelism)\n\nIf it does not matter for eternity, IT DOES NOT MATTER!
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its all metaphors. Jesus used metaphors so dont look for literal meanings
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Well, I see it like this: God's will was already established both the good and the bad. But we are floating around with a choice to become either Judas Iscariot or Peter. Both were choosen to be Apostles, both sinned against God, however, only one of them chose to repent with godly sorrow and not just because he got caught like Judas did. People always say, was Judas predestined to go to hell? No, I don't think so, I believe God's will is predestined not the people that will choose themselves what part they want to play. So, predestination for those who don't want to receive Jesus because they think it will just fall on them are wrong. Proof of what I just said can be found in Deut 28, where he set before us both blessings and cursings, see the plan is set, but what part of the plan you'll be in is entirely up to you,thus, your freedom to choose! God bless you girl!
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satan never sinned\n\nby representing what he does(all that is evil and not righteous) the entire idea of GOD is able to be created through the contrast of it. Therefore, he has done NO such sin, and in fact is as important AS god because without the idea of a supreme evil contrasting to the supreme good(and vice versa) neither would exist.
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Galatians 2:17\n17"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!\n\nSIN.\n\nThe Point of it all is SIN, and yes Sin is serious! We need Christ's forgiveness!
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Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,\n \nThere is only one sacrifice that was made for our sins,and that was Jesus on the cross. Those who think that becoming saved gives them a free ride to sin all they want are total and complete fools.\n\nYou say that you read your bible, This too is one of the scriptures that you will eventually come to read.\n\n Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.\n \nWhen Jesus said "Go and sin no more" That means if you have repented of a sin, you know that it is wrong and un rightous in the eyes of the Lord. You have acknowledged it as such. So why on earth would you go out and re commit the same sin that you have acknowledged to Jesus as being unrightous in His eyes? His love and  mercy is pricless as is His forgivness that came with a price that He paid and not one that you or I paid.\n\nYour question makes a person wonder if you even understood what the commitment and covenant that you make with Jesus, when or if you become born again, and accepted Jesus as your savior really means. It means "Go and sin no more".
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I think you make a good point. Many christians talk like being christian is all about being self-rightous and the right beliefs so you can get to heaven. I would invite them to review Matthew 25:31-46. I don't believe in a literal heaven and hell myself--I think those are metaphors--but I believe this passage has an important message about what Jesus really wanted his followers to care about.\n\nMatthew 25:31-46\n\n"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.\n\n"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'\n\n"Then the RIGHTEOUS will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'\n\n"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'\n\n"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'\n\n"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'\n\n"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'\n\n"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
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By only reading a portion of the Bible or just a verse is not the intention. Matthew 19:21 "Jesus said to him, " If you want to be PERFECT, go sell what you have and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me." Matthew 19:23 " Then Jesus said to his disciples, " Amen I say to you, it will be HARD for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. \nThis was given by Jesus to a young man who had thought he had done everything to enter heaven, Jesus tells him to be "perfect" he should get rid of all earthly possessions. Secondly it says "hard" for a rich person to enter heaven, not impossible.
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More than likely he was just there to bathe in the river anyway.Maybe some would argue about humbling himself before John the Baptist as a gesture of respect for him and what he did.Jesus had said that what you do to the least of these you do to me also.I don't have an issue with it. You're reading way too much into something without knowing the truth. This is a negative application you are applying so you're fishing in a toilet for excuses. Unless you had witnessed everything from that time without prejudice it's difficult to usually grasp it without faith. From the perspective of immortality one death on a cross to start a religion seems to be a safe bet.Mortals usually only understand living sacrifice as an example of faith or honor. A virgin woman represents an undefiled vessel or purity. Would it sound better to you if she was just the babysitter? This isn't a sitcom drama you know.
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Well, that's a big question and I'm bad for long answers so as to be thorough but simply put; the first man Adam sinned which brought sin to the human race and physical death. The first sacrifice made it to where that blood, wherein is the issues of LIFE, substituted for their own immediate life because God could not fellowship with man unless their was an atonement for sin. The first sacrifice made them some decent clothes of skins which God Himself designed and tailored to cover their nakedness so they would know what pleased Him and that is He cannot fellowship with sin and uncleanness or look at nakedness because He is 100% pure and holy.  Long story short, the solution for the sacrifice of animals needed to be done by those who had sinned and wanted their sins covered, redeemed, atoned for, and basically forgiven by God. Jesus became that sacrificial Lamb because it was foreordained from the beginning of time for Him to give His perfect pure life's blood for the atonement of all man-kind.  You must ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins before you are washed and clean and then you must obey His commandments.  You needn't be babtized except after you really know without a doubt that you have peace, joy, and no longer a desire to sin but to please God and then it is only symbolic that the old man, the fleshly sinful nature, has been killed.  He died because He loves us so much, like a Shepherd loves His sheep and because He wants us to be with Him in heaven as His bride.  Do you think you would want to lay your life down for the most hideous criminal on death row today?? Jesus did.  Could you forgive the person who committed horrible crimes against you or yours? He did. He wants to live in our hearts and he took our punishment for us but if we don't accept his atonement, He cannot be our High Priest (between us and God) and be our Lawyer on judment day when everyone will give account for the deeds done in this body.  He truly wants us to live for and love Him but it's our choice and he made the way so we could approach God's presence through the blood of His son so that God only sees the pure, the clean, the holy, the righteous.  Does that help? Get a New Testament or read the Bible on-line at Studylight.org.
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Do you notice that Jesus first tells the man that all he need do is keep the commandments?  But the man carries on, feeling that it won't be enough for some reason (even though Jesus just said it would)?  He feels he's still lacking.  Jesus tells him what he must do 'to be perfect'.  Not what he must do to gain eternal life.  I don't know about you, but, I have too many other people in my life to take care of to be 'perfect'.  Even as much as I admire Jesus.
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Jesus did face temptations, the same temptations that all humans face, but he did not succumb to it.  But the movie, and some of the things that it suggests, goes against biblical teaching.  Based on the literal translation of the Bible, and those that believe in the Bible as Gods holy word, the movie contradicts what we as Christians believe to be true.  I only saw bits and pieces of the movie when it was on cable.  I'm sure it was a well acted movie but there are lots of fictional movies that are moving.  Because it is entertaining, does not make it truth.  \n\nThe purpose of existence given to Christians is to spread the truths of the Bible which is to tell the world about Gods son, Jesus Christ and the sacrifice that he made so that we may all be forgiven of sin and accepted into Gods Kingdom by accepting and believing in him.  So what I am saying in answer to your question, in simpler terms is that the movie goes against the Word given to us in the Bible.
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Simple answer:\n\nThere are at least 4 different meanings for the word tempt in Greek.\n\nThe word "tempt" in question in 1 Cor. 10:9 is the word "ekpeirazo" in Greek and it means: Trying or challenging (God). \n\nIn the verse the word is in reference to "tempting" or testing/trying/challenging God. It had and has nothing to do with actually tempting God since God cannot be tempted. That's because temptation is the idea of one being drawn away to do something bad or evil. Since God is the definition and therefore standard of goodness it is impossible for Him to be drawn away from Himself and perform evil (which as you wrote wouldn't make any sense and be contradictory). But that's a topic for a different question.\n\nIn the verse in question Paul is merely reminding us not to challenge God, and references us back to the time of Moses. At that time the freed slaves of Israel were grumbling and complaining about being given the same food by God every day, day in and day out, and out of ungratefulness tempted (or Challenged) God's goodness to provide for their every need and by doing so made God unhappy. In the same way we should not test or challenge God's goodness for ourselves because God is always trying to provide for our every need. So one more time, the word and verse means we are told not to tempt or test God meaning casting doubt as to the goodness of God and/or Christ (They are one and the same).\n\nAs to your second question about the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.\nIt is hard to determine exactly what is meant by the tree of the knoweldge of good and evil (hereby rendered Tree for the remainder of this writing). We cannot be too dogmatic about the Tree since there's not much known about it. There are several different interpretations for what it meant, some include:\n-The Tree actually gave knowledge of good and evil.\n-The Tree was a normal tree but was given to simply test that by eating from it when God said not to they now performed evil and thereby now knew evil experientially.\n-The Tree allowed a person who never performed evil to know evil like God did. Meaning that God doesn't know evil because He's ever performed it or will ever but because He has seen the evil done by humans and fallen angels.\n\nSo in reality it's not so important what exactly the Tree was, whether it bestowed mystical knowledge, but what was important is that it was a test given by God and taught humanity a valuable lesson; that given a perfect life with no problems suffering or sickness in God's direct presence we would still disobey Him.\n\nI hope this answered your questions and helps.
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Donal Shaw is WRONG.  \n\nOne example, the thief on the cross who confessed Jesus in his hour of execution and was SAVED.  Jesus promised him right then and there that he would be with HIM in paradise.  Not, that Christ would see him in Paradise and maybe you will be saved.  \n\nOnce save always saved is correct.  It would be a fearful thing if Satan could snatch you from the hand of our Savior.  He is Jesus' promise to us:\n\nJohn 10:27-29\n27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.