What Christians want you to know.
Here for your perusal are several quotes from the New Testament that illustrate what Christians believe.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,”
Colossians 2:9.
The Apostle John records this conversation between Martha a friend of Jesus and Jesus.
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
John 11:25-27.
The apostle John also records Jesus as saying,
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
John 10:10,11
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6.
The apostle John also points out a very important thing about Jesus. Jewish law said anyone who called themselves equal to God at the time should be put to death yet Jesus never backed down on saying who he was,
John records,
“The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are one.”
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
John 10:24-32.
Even when he was hanging on the cross between two thieves he never denied he was the Christ. He even told one of the thieves who’d admitted his crime and believes in him that he would be with Him in paradise,
The apostle Luke records,
“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’”
Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 23:39-43.
C. S. Lewis put it this way,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The choice as to who you believe Jesus is, is entirely up to you. No one can make that decision for you.
Either you believe Jesus is who he says he is or you don’t.
If we Christians are wrong in our belief then you have nothing to worry about. If we are however correct then your decision could have eternal consequences.
Please think carefully about it.
Here for your perusal are several quotes from the New Testament that illustrate what Christians believe.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,”
Colossians 2:9.
The Apostle John records this conversation between Martha a friend of Jesus and Jesus.
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
John 11:25-27.
The apostle John also records Jesus as saying,
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
John 10:10,11
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6.
The apostle John also points out a very important thing about Jesus. Jewish law said anyone who called themselves equal to God at the time should be put to death yet Jesus never backed down on saying who he was,
John records,
“The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are one.”
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
John 10:24-32.
Even when he was hanging on the cross between two thieves he never denied he was the Christ. He even told one of the thieves who’d admitted his crime and believes in him that he would be with Him in paradise,
The apostle Luke records,
“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’”
Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 23:39-43.
C. S. Lewis put it this way,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The choice as to who you believe Jesus is, is entirely up to you. No one can make that decision for you.
Either you believe Jesus is who he says he is or you don’t.
If we Christians are wrong in our belief then you have nothing to worry about. If we are however correct then your decision could have eternal consequences.
Please think carefully about it.
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