“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
(Gen. 1:26)
To check the rightness of one’s true belief in God, you do not ask about his or her church name or affiliation. Nor do you question them about secondary issues such as baptism, the Lord’s Supper, spiritual gifts, etc. The one and only real test of an authentic Christian is who he, she, or they consider Jesus Christ to be. This is seen especially in John’s small, but powerful, second Epistle, the shortest book in the New Testament.
A person can be wrong on a lot of things, but if he is right about Christ, he is one of God’s own. This lesson needs to be learned among many Fundamentalists and Evangelicals. On the other hand, people can be right on many of the doctrines of the Bible, but, if they are mistaken about our Lord Jesus, nothing else matters. They have no hope. This, too, needs to be learned among the before mentioned groups.
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of Go!. There was never a time when He did not exist. He is not a created being, as you and I; He is the Creator. Isaiah calls God the “Everlasting Father.” My older son is fifty-seven years old, therefore, I have been a father for the same period of time. If God is an everlasting Father, then He has an everlasting Son.
This brings up something else of interest. “God is love,” says the Scriptures. Love is something one person has for another. If there was only God, without another being present, then there was no love before there were two. But God is eternal Love. He has loved someone eternally, and that ‘Someone’ is His darling Son. DO YOU LOVE WHAT GOD LOVES?
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