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Christianity Is Based On The Resurrection - Saturday, December 3rd .

Pastor Chris

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).

If Christianity were all about salvation from sin, there wouldn’t have been the need for Jesus to rise from the dead. His death on the cross would have been enough; it paid for all our sins and guaranteed complete propitiation. However, that’s redemption, and not Christianity!

Redemption refers to saving someone by paying a price. So when Jesus died, He paid the price for man’s redemption with His own life; He did that for all humanity; not for Christians. The Christian isn’t the man that Christ died for. Look at it this way: when Jesus hung on the cross, in the mind of God, we were all hanging there too (in Him), for He was our representative. When He cried out, “It is finished,” and gave up the ghost, we also died in Him.

Now, here’s the big thing, which Satan didn’t see coming and the angels still marvel at, and seek to look into: Christianity is based on the resurrection of Jesus, and not on His death. The resurrection of Jesus Christ gave us something far beyond redemption; it ushered us into a newness of life. We’ve been raised up together with Christ (Ephesians 2:6).

Romans 10:9 says, “...If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” It lets us know that salvation comes by believing in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the subsequent confession of His Lordship. A Christian is one who identifies with the resurrected Christ. The Christian has no past, for the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”; meaning that he’s a new species; one that never existed before.

No wonder James declares that “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:18). Being born again, therefore, you’re not the “redeemed”; you’re the fruit of the redemptive work of Christ. Redemption was consummated with His death, but Christianity came from the resurrection. Hallelujah!

Prayer...
Dear Father, I thank you for making me one with Christ. I’m a new creation and I walk in the newness of life, conscious that I’ve been raised together with Christ, and made to sit together with Him in the place of victory, authority, and dominion forever, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study:
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Daily Scripture Reading

1-Year Bible Reading Plan: 1 John 4, Daniel 1-2

2-Year Bible Reading Plan:Revelation 6:11-17,
Joel 3

jonbellion:
*understatement
If you want to throw insults do it right

Go buy a dictionary

jonbellion:
who said anything about slaying......
Oooh my God

I'd have called you stupid, but that'd be great underestimation

https://www.nairaland.com/3495673/experience-atheist-three-weeks/11#51568799


Suddenly, he's your God?

Seun:
Can we skip the nonsense and just admit that the dust to man story was made up by people who didn't know ChemistrY?

But... Your claims about about us being monkeys and hominids slaying their predecessors/successors was a story for the people who knew biology?

rhektor:
Elephant I guess, then elephant will be linked to......Hmmmmmmmmm This people self

Mammoth...

Mammoth to Emm golialiphant?

4everGod:
lmao, So now not everything evolved? Were some created?

.. How sure then are they that man did actually evolved?

AngelsAndStars:
you said before big bang you don't know what was there. that's because your evolutionists have not said anything yet. if they had said one fancy name am sure you'll be beating your chest and telling us.

please wake up. don't echo what those idiots make up in their heads.

Exactly!

Like seun is trying to tell us just because some fella wrote about it some years ago.

AngelsAndStars:
hippopotamus and whale are close relatives? did any whale tell you that? did you go under the see and you found an ancient picture of whale and hippopotamus in a party together? how did you come to a conclusion?

let me guess, you read it online?

This killed me

Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

EyeHateGod:
Trillions of Neurons was fired in homo sapians that's why we are what we are "Wise man"

Oh.. Dear Lord Jesus!

AngelsAndStars:
whales evolved from hippopotamus? Lmaooooooo.

Tell me I'm dreaming please!

jonbellion:
lol how everything began??
Before the big bang?
That is where I humbly say I do not know

Hmmmmmmm.. I appreciate your honesty.

Thanks

4everGod:
Seun, notable evolutionist Stephen M. Stanley of Johns Hopkins University had this to say as he has also commented on the stunning lack of transitional forms in the fossil record… “In fact, the fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition from one species to another.”

Is his comment true or false?

I think I saw this somewhere too. OK then, seun, disprove him!

jonbellion:
mehn you guys your straw man ehn if equated to a nuclear weapon would single handedly start a nuclear winter
What does evolution have to do with all up posted
For the umpteenth time
EVOLUTION DEALS WITH HOW LIFE DIVERSIFIED NOT HOW WE GOT HERE!!

OK.. How did we get here?

Seun:
You are what you are, whether you accept it or not.

I could say same to you too.

Facts cannot be nullified by denying them.

There are facts and there are truths. Evolution isn't either.

Brains and tools gave us dominion, not God.

Wonderful submission!

Has brain and tools able to tell you how you came to be? Or what's to be after you die?

4everGod:
Seun Evolution is a faith which has no scientific evidence at all! Believe it at your peril!

First I was a fish swimming in the sea,Then I was a frog with my tail between my knees,
I then became a monkey swinging in the trees, And now I'm a Professor with a PhD.

Come on Man. Award winning sci fi right here.

I hope all Atheists calling themselves intelligent can see what amazes some of us they claim aren't smart.

4everGod:
Seun do you realise that the evolution theory is simply science fiction for adults? I want to ask you to read this and attempt to reason it out yourself. Let me pick something as simple as a Bee and lets place it side by side with science and this evolution theory.

Features of a Bee

It has compound eyes able to analyse polarized light for navigation & flower recognition!

It has three additional eyes for navigation!

It has two antennae for smell & touch!

It has grooves on its front legs to ‘clean’ the antennae!

It has tube-proboscis to suck in nectar & water: when NOT in use, it curls back under its head!

It has two jars (mandibles) to hold, crush, & form wax!

It has a honey tank for temporary storage of nectar!

It has enzymes in its honey tank which will ultimately change the nectar into honey!

It has glands in the abdomen that produces beeswax, which is secreted as scales on the rear of its body!

It has five segmented legs which can turn in any needed direction!

It has pronged claws, on each foot, to cling to flowers!

It has glands in its head to make royal jelly!

It has glands in its body to make glue!

It has hairs on its head, thorax, & legs to collect pollen!

It has pollen ‘baskets’ on its rear legs to collect pollen!

It has several different structures to collect pollen!

It has spurs to pack it down!

It has a row of hooks on the trailing edges of its front wings, which, hooking to its rear wings in flight provides better flying power!

It has a barbed poison sting, to defend the bee & the hive!

It has an enormous library of inherited knowledge regarding how to grow up, make hives & cells, nurse infants, aid the queen bee; analyse, locate & impart information on how to find the flowers, navigate by polarized & other light, collect materials in the field, guard the hive, detect & overcome enemies plus a whole lot more!!!

A few questions…

How can a honeycomb have walls which are only 1/350th inch think (0.007cm), yet are able to support 30 times their own weight?

How can a strong, healthy colony have 50,000 bees in, yet they are all able to work together with a great variety of tasks WITHOUT ANY instructors or supervisors?

How can a honeybee identify a flavour as sweet, sour, salty or bitter? How can it correctly identify a flower species & only visit that species on each trip into the field, while passing up tasty opportunities that it finds en route?

All these mysteries & more are found in the life of a common bee!

A honeybee averages 14 miles per hour in flight, yet collects enough nectar in its lifetime to make about 1/10th of a pound (0.045kg) of honey! In order to make a pound of honey, a bee living close to clover fields would have to travel 13,000 miles!

With all its high-tech equipment, surely the bee would have taken millions of years to evolve EVERY PART OF IT? Yet, not long ago, a very ancient bee was found encased in amber. Analysing it, scientists decided that, although it dated back to the beginning of flowering plants, it was just like MODERN bees!!! So as far back in the past as we can go, we find that bees are just like bees TODAY!!!

Were they left out of this evolutionary process?

Hmmmmmmm...

This is wide reasoning. Seun, mind shedding some light?

We're they really left out of the evolutionary process? Remember, you're yet to explain why the ostrich have a tiny brain yet an amazing bodily activity.

One more question, why didn't the Hominids that succeeded the monkeys wipe the monkeys out? Did we really wipe those that preceeded us? Any evidence?

LaClicKLaBenDin:
And "intelligent people" actually liked and shared this?

I give up.

Amazing, huh?

jonbellion:
lolit is just arrogance that is doing all of you
You classify all cats under the family felindae and there is no argument there
But when it comes to the homindae there us still a heavy dispute that has been going on for two centuries now when the evidence is stronger than it ever was
Issorait

But seun said we're monkeys, just that they didn't compete with us.

Isn't that an aberration?

Monkeys didn't compete with some other set of monkeys... Really?

Seun:
I'm going to answer some questions that most scientists would dismiss as being silly.


We didn't just evolve from monkeys. We are monkeys.

We are? How come wen got smarter than our ancestors? What happened?

Look at your face, then look at a monkey's face. Look at your hands, then look at a monkey's hands. We still have forest dwelling, tree climbing, furry monkeys because they didn't compete directly with us as hominids did.

So these are your reasons why you are a monkey? Where are hominids today?

How come monkeys outlived those that competed with us?

Each hominid was probably wiped out by the hominid that preceded it.

Hmmmmmmm at the bold

How come the one preceeding monkeys didn't wipe it out?

[s]They were in direct competition with each because, unlike monkeys, they lived in the same places and ate and hunted similar things. The more intelligent species were more successful than the less intelligent ones and eventually drove them to extinction. Intelligence doesn't always win in nature. A deer needs speed more than it needs intelligence. Without the ability to handle tools, no amount of intelligence will help a deer against a lion. A tree monkey needs agility more than it needs intelligence, or it will fall and die. Also, intelligence is expensive. Our jaws are weak because we have smaller jaw muscles, but this leaves more space for the brain. 25% of the sugar in your blood is consumed not by your arms or legs, but by your brain. That's a lot! We are lucky that our ancestors found themselves in situations where intelligence was good for their survival. That's why we are here today.[/s]

I'm sorry bro.. These are very irrelevant to the crux of the matter

EyeHateGod:
You are asking stupid Questions it's no surprise since free thinking is Demonic

Thanks for your time.

Please leave smarter people to discuss. Let me just wait for seun

AngelsAndStars:
Lolz. or why they dont wear "water air" mask and explore land.

Abi o

EyeHateGod:
Can someone tell me why the discussing of the thread has turned to Evolution is that what the op is About?

Please, sit this out if you do not have What to write.

Thank you

EyeHateGod:
Won't they need hands that are able to handle tools to build it? Different component makes up our body not just the brain this question you asked is not logical..

Those little mammals that build dams, did you give them hands and tools?

AngelsAndStars:
doesnt make sense. i heard dolphines use most of their brians about 70% compared to humans less than 15%. so tell me why dolphins dont build sky scrapers?

Good question ... Or why haven't dolphines have a way of dominating the seas and so much?

MrMontella:
although your assumption is clearly wrong...
Even if it were to be right...
Your answer is ''if europeans are the ancestors of americans...why are there still europeans''..
[s]
Like Lambanopeace's picture, what happened to those in between our evolution? Where are they? Or do you mean we just moved from monkey to man?

By the way, it is impossible to evolve from dumb to smart, if not monkeys being our original ancestors should have been super smarter. [/s]

So, Americans evolved from Europeans?

Am I the only one tolerating these unbelievable display of ignorance ?

Seun:
Larger animals usually have larger brains because more brainpower is required just to control the entire body,

How come the brain of an ostrich is the same size as its eye, yet it sprints as it does and kills with its powerful foot?

Note, it is more stronger than an average monkey with a larger brain.

which is why the brain size to mass ratio is more representative of intelligence, though not exactly.

You're so wrong here sir!

The elephant has a smaller brain relative to its size than we do relative to our size, yet it's undeniably one of the smartest animals in the world.

Wrong again. The elephant has the second largest brain. The largest brains are those of sperm whales, weighing about 8 kg (18 lb). An elephant's brain weighs just over 5 kg (11 lb), a bottlenose dolphin's 1.5 to 1.7 kg (3.3 to 3.7 lb), whereas a human brain is around 1.3 to 1.5 kg (2.9 to 3.3 lb). Brain size tends to vary according to body size.

Dolphins, which also are incredibly smart, have large brains relative to their size.

Wrong again... The brain size of a dolphin is almost similar to that of a man. It's just a bit..bigger, yet their sizes are more than ours.

The structure of the brain is also important. Our brains have a more complex, convoluted, interconnected structure than most.

Are you making some of these stuff up sir? Our brains could not have evolved from dumb.

jonbellion:
evolution is not a linear process
That's just what i wanted you to know
The diagram is also misleading because it is assuming we came from modern monkeys
We didn't evolve from apes we evolved with them

Ahn ahn... Seun come and see.

We evolved with them? Who then are our original ancestors we evolved from.?

4everGod:
He thinks we do. Perhaps his analogy would also mean that a elephant if taught and exposed can be smarter than einstein or a whale can actually solve complex chemical equations as fast as a super computer.

Atheists and their grand delusions.

Hmmmmmmm.. This is possible following seun's line of reasoning.

How flawed.

AngelsAndStars:
give us the real one then.

Seconded

jonbellion:
that diagram of evolution is wrong
Very wrong

Why is it wrong?

Seun:
Yes, we did. Of all monkeys in the world, we have the biggest brains. Our brains also have a more complex structure. This makes us smarter.

We evolved from dumb to wise?

If we evolved from monkeys, how come we still have monkeys?

Like Lambanopeace's picture, what happened to those in between our evolution? Where are they? Or do you mean we just moved from monkey to man?

By the way, it is impossible to evolve from dumb to smart, if not monkeys being our original ancestors should have been super smarter.

MrMontella:
the dna of a bacteria is not a 3 billion unit program...

Read my post carefully and show me where I mentioned bacteria.

Meanwhile, I asked seun this question, which he slyly avoided and taught us evolution. Let me ask him further

Do you really think we evolved from dumb to wise? I mean, think about it