Jesus Christ the Redeemer
Jesus Christ the Redeemer Victor Paul Wierwille The Bible is a closed book to the unbeliever. It is God's Word to the believer. Soul life is breath life. God breathed into Adam, and he became a living soul. Everyone is a living soul as long as he has breath life. When breath life is gone, man is a dead soul or dead person. God is not a person, for He has no soul life. God is Spirit (John 4:24) and a spirit has no flesh or bones as people have (Luke 24:39). Jesus Christ was not spirit, for he had flesh and bones even after the resurrection. You can legislate all you please, but until you change the nature of man, sin will grow and flourish. We may sort of keep it down a little bit here and there, but it will surely spring up elsewhere. The only hope of any human is to be born again. Man commits sin because his nature produces that kind of fruit. Now you can understand why man is more than a transgressor - a law breaker; man is spiritually dead. And as a natural man, he partakes of Satan's nature (Ephesians 2:2). When he is born again, he partakes of God's nature (II Peter 1:4). Man is not lost because of what he does, but because of what he is. Man needs a new birth - that is life from God - because he is spiritually dead. Romans 5:12 says death passed upon all men. Also, see Matthew 4:16 and Romans 3:9, 23. Neither education nor culture can change man's nature. Education will not make a man fit to stand right with God. The new birth is man's only hope. God's plan of redemption was a legal document because Satan had legal rights God had to recognize. If God could have disposed of the Devil, putting him out of dominion, but did not do it, then God would unnecessarily be guilty of all the acts of the Devil. That is exactly why some have confused death as coming from the true God. God cannot dispose of the Devil until man's lease of dominion has expired which Adam delivered to the Adversary. The Adversary's chief desire and design is to destroy humans and thereby bring
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born again, he partakes of God's nature (II Peter 1:4). Man is not lost because of what he does, but because of what he is. Man needs a new birth - that is life from God - because he is spiritually dead. Romans 5:12 says death passed upon all men. Also, see Matthew 4:16 and Romans 3:9, 23. Neither education nor culture can change man's nature. Education will not make a man fit to stand right with God. The new birth is man's only hope. God's plan of redemption was a legal document because Satan had legal rights God had to recognize. If God could have disposed of the Devil, putting him out of dominion, but did not do it, then God would unnecessarily be guilty of all the acts of the Devil. That is exactly why some have confused death as coming from the true God. God cannot dispose of the Devil until man's lease of dominion has expired which Adam delivered to the Adversary. The Adversary's c