Something for you to ponder, based around a Key aim of your faith, all to come under one roof, so to speak.
Now it doesn't need rocket science to tell us, this is God's plan and represented via the No 1 = Unity, unity in 1.
He being Aleph = No 1 in the Alphabet etc.
Whether you believe in a devil, it doesn't matter, it's still good verses evil.
Therefore, no question about it, the evil has got to try and mimic the good.
And the best way to do that would be to try and get them all under one roof.
Now your faith appears to be happy for everyone to unite, put aside all the varying beliefs as your claim is, where really all following the one God.
Then to seal this, to open the door of resistance, all this goody two shoes stuff, where all in there head first, helping each other, like one big happy family.
So people, families that are having a rough trot, the vulnerable etc, would possibly jump in there head first, someone cares etc.
Another of your faiths punch line appears, well,....guys,...just take a look at the current Christian world and the sate of the world, clearly something is adrift.
And to add another seal and perhaps the biggest one, otherwise you wouldn't have a hope of getting through their doors, Jesus is not the only Door = hey presto, the Muslim doors etc, are opened.
Now then, if we back up to what I said it's all about, the evil trying to mimic etc and when I say mimic, wolf in sheeps clothing = most would NOT have a clue or be able to see it coming, simply will NOT.
And they will deny until their blue in the face, that they could possible be up the garden path, off track.
And that,.... one can see, is as large as life.
So then, if you just step back out of your seeds for a moment, and consider the above, what's in my mind, can you SEE how my alarm bells would be screaming, Banging, BIG time when I assess your faith?
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Now then, God's plan --> To be all in all --> Beginning was Word (Aleph Tav) and from Him = The Word which simply means the likes of;
Titus 1:2 - In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before time eternal;
2 Tim 1:9 - Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before time eternal,
John 1:2 The same, this, it (Titus etc) was in the beginning with God.
Hence John 1:4 - In Him life was = Light Psa 119:105 = The word of God, inner logos, foundation etc.
God reveals the end from the beginning (OT)-> They had life eternal, however;
John 8:44 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
I could be wrong, but I would read the above, end from the beginning, that,..............it will be very much near the end, before people get back on the truth trail?
There is clearly a reason for what we have in the world, among said Christians, as we should be seeing much bigger results, effects of them in the world, IF they were on the Truth trail.End we should expect the answers, as they are, IN the Bible.
So the Key factor, based on the beginning, seems to stem around that word TRUTH.
John 17:3 This Now is the eternal life that they should know You, the Only True God and whom You have sent, Jesus Christ.
John 4:23-24 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Spirit the God (is): and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Now then, the 2 Tim reference above, along with other verses, clearly show this plan of God's was always going to be through a Jesus to be and Finish with him, Hence Jesus on the cross said, "it is finished", and in that context, Jesus is the Beginning and the Ending, Hence received the tile, Alpha Omega = a Alpha Omega but not The Alpha Omega, A to Z.
And afterwards, what was in Jesus, Comforter would return and through this one Spirit of Truth, Jesus as well would come, God's right arm, so to speak, to lead and guide and keep all on track.
Jesus also received the tiles, the Bread, Water, Light etc which all represent the plan God had before the world and Jesus even literally existed.
And that plan known as = the Word, from Word, The Word, became and Tabernacled IN us, in the Temple, Glory of God.
John 15:5 (Greek Truth) - And now Glorify Me You, Father, with Yourself, with Glory insofar held before --> the world--> existed, with You.
(This is also supported via the many OT verses, where God and God alone created all things, for the sake of, because of, by reason of, the future one to be, where God would then place all things into his hands, until death no more).
God is Glory, hence Jesus now asking for his literal presence, Glory.
The plan God had for him, 2 Tim 1:9 for example, was the Glory insofar held via God alone.
But if one wants to insist it is "I had" as in Jesus had, then it makes NO difference, Jesus is NOT saying he was literally there.
Example --> If I was to say I was one of God's, based on 2 Tim 1:9, I could say, before the world existed I was there, and saved, called in Jesus, but we know, I was not literally there.
So right off the bat, so to speak Kam, this claim we all have the same God, is simply NOT of God.
The fact that their beginnings, roots may have began there = irrelevant.
John 8:47 - He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
This includes Jesus's words from the God and Father and are not negotiable.
So based on the end from the beginning, it would appear, NO fudging of the truth is acceptable.
Sorry to have to say it, but your faith goes far beyond fudging many Bible passages.
However, one would have to be able to step back out of their picture, so to speak to have any chance of seeing this.
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