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Originally Posted by Christfollower1
Christ is alive.
Peace be with you!
Please find him!
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Although Christ is most certainly alive, if you believe The Bible that is, He is not currently on Earth. You may recall that Jesus left a couple of millennia ago and has not yet returned. He was quite clear that He will in fact return (again if you accept The Bible) and that in the interim The Holy Spirit is available. More broadly, it is through Christians that Christ's ministry continues united by The Holy Spirit. Jesus used the analogy of a vine:
John 15:5-7 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
The Bible is clear that multiple witnesses saw Jesus leave the Earth and ascend into Heaven. Subsequently there were several occasions when He was seen actually
in. Heaven and that is where He is now. Jesus was not saying that Christians are grapes. It is through The Holy Spirit that individuals are united as The Body of Christ much as grapes and leaves are united into a whole as parts of a vine. But plainly the witness of The Spirit will not contradict what Jesus has already told us. Under no circumstances will a message permitting idolatry ever be validated. No claim that amputations are not in fact better than everlasting torment will ever come from The Holy Spirit.
Such claims exist, yes. But they have nothing to do with Christianity because they contradict Jesus. Nothing contradicting Jesus is any sort of Truth. You have not explained your position regarding any types of amputation or shown a way that what you've claimed does not contradict Jesus. Of course anyone can believe anything they like but if what you believe disagrees with what Jesus Christ has already explained, then you are not any sort of Christian.
If your claims
do. agree with Christ's message about Salvation then you'd need to explain how that's possible because at present what you say and what Jesus has said seem like two very different things.