This morning I was watching a youtube video about the beliefs of Jehovah Witnesses. I meet on Monday mornings for a Bible Study with my parents and other residents of their Memory Care facility where they reside.
I found out by chance that the leader of this study belonged to this religion. She visited my neighborhood and my house by chance? Nothing is by happenstance in the realm of God. I would never have known her beliefs if she had not.
According to what I saw they believe that Jesus was the archangel Michael formed into the man, Jesus, who later died. Michael then was elevated as a spirit man. This is one of the verses (1 Corinthians 15:1–8) that was brought to my mind by the Holy Spirit.
We are saved by the grace of God in the salvation provided in the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The only begotten Son of God…all God, all man!
Paul’s gospel to the Corinthians centered on the physical death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God who became human yet never sinned. He viewed himself as a link in a long chain of witnesses to the truth of the death and resurrection of Christ. The Resurrection verifies the fact that Christ’s death paid the full price for sin. The Greek term translated rose here is in the perfect tense, emphasizing the ongoing effects of this historical event. Christ is a risen Savior today.
At the time of Paul’s writing, a person could have verified the truthfulness of the apostle’s statements. The majority of the five hundred people who saw the risen Christ, as well as all the apostles and James (the half brother of Jesus), were still living. NKJ Bible.
1 Corinthians 15:1–8 (NKJV)
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
Isaiah 53:10 (NKJV)
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
Hosea 6:2 (NKJV)
2 After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
I found out by chance that the leader of this study belonged to this religion. She visited my neighborhood and my house by chance? Nothing is by happenstance in the realm of God. I would never have known her beliefs if she had not.
According to what I saw they believe that Jesus was the archangel Michael formed into the man, Jesus, who later died. Michael then was elevated as a spirit man. This is one of the verses (1 Corinthians 15:1–8) that was brought to my mind by the Holy Spirit.
We are saved by the grace of God in the salvation provided in the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The only begotten Son of God…all God, all man!
Paul’s gospel to the Corinthians centered on the physical death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God who became human yet never sinned. He viewed himself as a link in a long chain of witnesses to the truth of the death and resurrection of Christ. The Resurrection verifies the fact that Christ’s death paid the full price for sin. The Greek term translated rose here is in the perfect tense, emphasizing the ongoing effects of this historical event. Christ is a risen Savior today.
At the time of Paul’s writing, a person could have verified the truthfulness of the apostle’s statements. The majority of the five hundred people who saw the risen Christ, as well as all the apostles and James (the half brother of Jesus), were still living. NKJ Bible.
1 Corinthians 15:1–8 (NKJV)
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
Isaiah 53:10 (NKJV)
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
Hosea 6:2 (NKJV)
2 After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
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