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Debunking the belief that a believer can live a solo Christian life, and much more answers...  Q: I was an atheist not exposed to anything remotely biblical my whole life. I found my faith less than a year agp. I just started reading the bible and very quickly felt like churches are teaching something else. The Bible says one thing and they say another. I left. Now He guides me in my studies and shows me what I need to see. He led me to His OT and how He is the same God as before. I pray all people just let the Holy Spirit guide them. Not pastors, ministers, or priests. Let God be in control. There isn't a single Christian denomination that obeys the bible. Just a pastor getting paid to be a pastor is against the bible. No one should receive income from preaching God's words. If your congregation assembles in a building dedicated for it, like a church, that's against the bible. The word church is ekklesia in greek and refers to an assembly of any group of people, not just b...

Jewish converts to Christ had come from Jerusalem and were incorrectly telling the converted Gentiles, “You’ve got to go back and do all those things that are in the Mosaic law.” They were basically saying “It is not enough for you that you have been saved by faith. In order to be truly saved, you must keep the law of Moses.” They were preaching a different gospel. Paul got really angry and wrote that was a horrendous distortion of the gospel!  In chapter 1:6, as you remember, he says, “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed, damned, anathematized!” Says it again, “As we said before, I say now again, if a...

Understanding God's Law and Christianity It isnt that Christianity is different from the Old Testament. It is just that Jesus, in his teachings, clarified it for the Jews under the Judaism religious leaders of that time who had perverted it; it was apostate(*). *The rulers added things to the Law that God never required, causing them to have burdens they werent meant to be under(**). They were man made laws and traditions(*).  So the Messiah has come who was not only revealed, but revealed "the spirit of the Law"(*), and fulfilled the whole Law on the believers behalf(*). While Jesus work (*)  was necessary to accomplish because no fallen man; no sinner could ever pay the penalty for their own sins. [As only someone perfect could do that, like God himself, putting on human flesh].  The Law was simply meant to show us or teach us that only God is perfect, only God is Righteous, only God is Holy(*). He is the standard. The Law was simply as Scripture says, a schoolmaster to...