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Edit 1/20/21 - I decided to redo the old stamp to make it stand out better. The old one was smaller and had cramped text, so hopefully this one is much easier to read. I also added some simple (and not distracting, hopefully) rectangles to add a little color. This was the stamp template I used, so credit goes to its creator:____________
Why Christianity?
Why Christianity?7/23/17 - Forgot a detail from before, so I'm updating this journal with it. It is under Point #4.
One question asked of me (or questions, rather), were how we can know the God of the Bible is the true God, and why any belief contrary to Christianity is false. Even suggesting such an idea today is automatically deemed "bigoted" and "arrogant," but yet, logic itself would dictate that if there is a singular truth, then anything contradicting it would have to be false. A simple example would be if I said, "1+1=2, and 1+1=3." Can both be true? Of course not. If there can only be one solution to a scenario, then you can't have another solution that's different. We will investigate in this journal the claims that the Bible makes, because it is the only book by which we may know God, and find out if the ecumenical idea that "all paths lead to heaven" holds any water. I write this, of course, with Colossians 3:12 and 14 and in mind.
"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and belo
I decided to make a stamp that's a much-shortened version of the salvation message on my page, but still has the verses you need for knowing how to become saved. This is free to use on your page if you wish, as well as any other site you're on, and there is no need to credit or ask me.
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Comments: 55
bjta8045 In reply to ??? [2016-07-25 03:12:14 +0000 UTC]
Wanting to have a religious debate on DeviantArt? Typical
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Perrydev In reply to bjta8045 [2016-07-25 03:34:42 +0000 UTC]
Not having an actual argument.
Typical
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bjta8045 In reply to Perrydev [2016-07-26 03:38:22 +0000 UTC]
Trying to justify genocide and thinking your in the right, typical.
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Perrydev In reply to bjta8045 [2016-07-26 03:39:35 +0000 UTC]
Are you talking about the crusades?
They were actually a defense.
Christians have done nothing to incite genocide
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bjta8045 In reply to Perrydev [2016-07-26 03:44:57 +0000 UTC]
Joshua 10: 40
So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded
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TheBoldMouse In reply to bjta8045 [2016-07-26 05:23:00 +0000 UTC]
Yes, God did order Joshua and the Israelites to eliminate certain other nations. This was not because God was so "cruel" and "unjust," but because those nations were extremely wicked.
Deuteronomy 9:4-5
"Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
Since God is the epitome of righteousness (Psalm 145:17), He has every right to dispose of those nations for their evil works. If Israel had done this outside of the Lord's command, then it would've been wrong because Israel is not perfectly righteous, only God is. And by the way, this sort of judgment happened upon Israel itself as well. It wasn't that God just gave Israel permission to just do whatever it wanted and kill whoever they wanted; they still needed to abide by God's laws and stay in His covenant. Leviticus 26 listed the blessings and curses that would befall them should they either keep, or forsake the covenant. Here's what happened when Israel forsook the covenant:
Jeremiah 21:7
"And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy."
Jeremiah 22:25
"And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 25:9
"Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations."
Israel suffered a similar fate their enemies did before; many of them were killed, and many were taken into captivity in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar (his name is spelled with an "r" in some cases, like in the above passages; it's still the same person). What we can glean from the Old Testament, before the dispensation of the grace of God was committed to Paul (Ephesians 3:2), is that when a nation fell away from God and became given over to wickedness, then He would warn them about their judgment, and if they didn't repent, then God would destroy them (For example, God warned Nineveh through Jonah, and since they repented, God did not destroy them.) An older example could be seen in the book of Numbers. Israel wanted to pass harmlessly through the land of the Amorites on their journey, but the king reacted with needless hostility, and fought against them instead! Hence, they were eliminated.
Numbers 21:21-25
"And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof."
This should be seen in light of this verse:
Genesis 12:3
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Based on this, all the nations knew that Israel had been set apart as God's nation, and that if they cursed them, then they would be cursed. For proof that the nations had this warning before destruction, see this passage:
Exodus 12:48-49
"And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."
Anyone was able to live in Israel, provided that they keep its laws. God didn't just haphazardly kill random people left and right for fun; those nations that were destroyed had fair warning of what God would do to them should they curse Israel and become wicked. And to address your comment about 1 Samuel 15:2-3, the passage itself shows that the Amalekites did not need to suffer that fate; they could've blessed Israel, according to Genesis 12:3, but they foolishly attacked them in Exodus 17:8-13.
Lastly, I fail to see how any of your comments relate to my stamp at all.
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Perrydev In reply to bjta8045 [2016-07-26 03:45:47 +0000 UTC]
This is your third reply.
From the old testament
Which most orthodox Christians disregard
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bjta8045 In reply to Perrydev [2016-07-26 03:50:02 +0000 UTC]
[Isaiah 40: 8]
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.
[Peter 1: 24, 25 / Psalm 19: 7]
The law of the Lord is perfect
Jesus said:
Matthew 5: 17- 20
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven
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bjta8045 In reply to Perrydev [2016-07-26 03:43:50 +0000 UTC]
1 Samuel 15:2-3
Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey
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Perrydev In reply to bjta8045 [2016-07-26 03:45:08 +0000 UTC]
I'm not even Christian.
I don't like the prospect of people harassing Christians just because if their faith
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