If you and both repent of our sins, believe in our hearts, and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born to the virgin Mary, (and her husband Joseph, cuz he always gets left out... lol,) be water baptized, receiving the Holy Spirit, and you happen to attend a Methodist, Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic, Full Gospel, Mormon, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness, Church of Christ, Church of God in Christ, or any other form of "Religion" that preaches, teaches, or believers in the Gospel of Christ. And Him living a sinless life, performing miracles, healing the sick, raising the dead, being rejected, betrayed, beaten, battered, bruised, cruxcified, buried, and resurrected on the third day. rising with ALL power in His hands, are we not ALL Christians?
The world, and it's many forms of "Religion," (Which Paul, and Jesus Christ say these traditions are vain, I might add,)"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. *Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.* For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead." - Colossians 2:6-12have made a modern day mockery, and have built walls between ALL believer's of the Gospel of Christ, with their various doctrines which only show outwardly, their inner ignorance, not spreading the written Word, but manipulating parts of it, disdaining other churches/religions, claiming that theirs is the "correct one,"not realizing that their casting down another person for following the same Gospel... Pure, unadulterated, ignorance. The Bible says, "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism,One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." - Ephesians 4:4-6
This being so, and Christ saying, "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18 and also, "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." - 1 Corinthians 12:12-13... AND, "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." - Romans 12:5... Where is this body of Christ today? "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:" - Colossians 1:23-24
The church is the body of Christ, and we are it's members. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." - Romans 8:1"And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. And the Gospel must first be published among all nations." - Mark 13:5-10 The latter part of this... which is currently going on... NOW, is only the beginning. How is it that that there are many who claim to be followers of Christ, yet preach separation from believer's OF THE SAME Gospel? Man has put all kinds of twists on the Word of God, and this will cause many to fall short, relying on their teachings, the words from another man's mouth, than on the Word of God, because they don't read for themselves. If it's not in the Bible... God did NOT say it, nor ordain it to be said. Let's get it together people. READ the Word and get a greater understanding of it."Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." - 2 Timothy 2:14-16 By the way... The church is not a building, It's in your hearts, and we believers are what makes it up. We make up the body of Christ. And remember, We're ALL born into sin, and ALL have come short of the glory of God, but through Christ we can become heirs to the promise, and receive that Grace and Mercy from above, Get ya heart right. I wanna see you in Heaven too.
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