GOD ETERNALLY EXISTS AS THREE PERSONS: FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT. THEY ARE ETERNALLY INTERDEPENDENT. WHEN ONE ACTS ALL THREE PERSONS CAN BE SAID TO ACT. GOD CREATED ALL THINGS, THERE IS NOTHING THAT EXISTS THAT HE DID NOT CREATE.
GOD'S ACT OF CREATION IN GENESIS TOOK PLACE OVER A PERIOD OF ONE LITERAL WEEK, OR SEVEN LITERAL DAYS.
MAN WAS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. HE WAS CREATED WITHOUT SIN. HE WAS CREATED WITH GREAT INTELLIGENCE. HE WAS CREATED WITH THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE. HE WAS CREATED WITH PERFECT GENETIC STRUCTURE. HE WAS CREATED WITH THE GENETIC ABILITY TO REPRODUCE AFTER HIS OWN KIND, YET WITH GREAT VARIATIONS WITHIN THAT KIND. HE WAS CREATED MALE AND FEMALE.
MAN WAS GIVEN THE WORLD AND TOLD TO MULTIPLY AND DOMINATE THE WORLD. MAN WAS GIVEN ONE THING HE WAS NOT TO DO: HE WAS NOT TO PARTAKE FROM THE FRUIT OF ONE SPECIFIC TREE IN THE GARDEN GOD HAD PLACED HIM IN.
SATAN, A FALLEN ANGEL, DECEIVED EVE TO SIN AND ADAM WILLINGLY FOLLOWED EVE INTO SIN, BRINGING THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE INTO THE CURSE OF GOD.
GOD SHED INNOCENT ANIMAL BLOOD TO PROVIDE CLOTHES FOR ADAM AND EVE. HE PROMISED THEM HE WOULD SEND A SAVIOR TO CRUSH THE HEAD OF SATAN AND DELIVER MAN FROM THE CURSE OF GOD. THEY ACCEPTED THE CLOTHES FROM GOD, INDICATING THEY WERE TRUSTING GOD TO KEEP HIS PROMISE.
PROPHESY AFTER PROPHESY WAS GIVEN BY GOD TO MANKIND, ON JUST WHO THE SAVIOR WOULD BE, WHAT HE WOULD DO, AND WHEN HE WOULD DO IT.
JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. HE FULFILLED PROPHESY AFTER PROPHESY, UNTIL THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT HE WAS THE LONG PROMISED SAVIOR. HE WAS THEN CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS, WHERE HE BORE THE CURSE OF A BROKEN LAW AND WAS PUNISHED FOR THE SIN OF ALL PEOPLE, OF ALL TIME.
HE COULD BE PUNISHED FOR ALL PEOPLE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ONLY MAN, HE WAS GOD IN HUMAN FLESH. THE SON OF GOD HAD TAKEN ON HUMAN FLESH AND LIVED AS A MAN. THE INFINITE SON OF GOD TOOK ON HIMSELF THE GUILT OF ALL SIN OF ALL TIME, AND WAS PUNISHED IN THE PLACE OF THOSE WHO HAD COMMITTED THOSE SINS.
TODAY, ALL WHO WISH TO TURN FROM THEIR SIN AND FOLLOW GOD CAN HAVE THEIR SIN FORGIVEN, ON THE BASIS OF WHAT GOD DID ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY. ALL WHO WISH TO HOLD ONTO THEIR SIN WILL BE CONSIGNED TO THE PLACE WHERE THEIR LEADER IS GOING TO BE CAST: VARIOUSLY CALLED HELL, THE LAKE OF FIRE, OUTER DARKNESS, THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, ETC.
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