People deny facts, with varying degrees of consequences.
I have known people who denied that the United States put a man on the moon,
I have known people who denied the Jewish Holocaust,
I have known people who denied their own sickness,
I have known people who denied their own sin and
I have known people who denied the absolute authority of God and His infallible and irrefutable revelation to man.
Error in eternal matters can result in eternal consequences. At least consider and investigate Biblical Christianity.
Isaiah 1:11-18
(11) To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
(12) When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
(13) Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
(14) Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
(15) And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
DLG note... Even Jewish sacrifices and celebrations (which came from God), without contrition for sin, and faith in God, are repugnant to Him.
(16) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
(17) Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
(18) Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
DLG note... True faith, true salvation results in miraculous transformation. Salvation is not self improvement or religious ritual, it is a right relationship with God.
John 1:29
(29) The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
DLG note... God's sacrifice for our sin is His Own Son, Jesus Christ. To deny the Christ of the Bible is to deny deliverance from sin and judgment and to deny the only true, and living God.
Ephesians 1:3-9
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
DLG note... This is addressed to those who trust Christ for salvation.
(4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
DLG note... Biblical election is election to BE holy and without blame. There is no salvation for those who continue in sin.
(5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
DLG note... Biblical predestination is predestination to be saved by Jesus Christ. There is no other way to be reconciled to God.
(6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
(7) In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
DLG note... Biblical redemption from our sin and guilt is predicated on the sacrificial death of Christ and provided through the grace of God. Salvation is not simply a bookkeeping transaction, but a relational transformation.
(8) Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
DLG note... Salvation is consistent with thoughtful and intelligent reasoning.
(9) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
DLG note... God has revealed to us His plan to reconcile us to Himself through His Son. It was not contrived by human invention, it was derived from Divine intention.
Isaiah 1:11-18
(11) To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
(12) When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
(13) Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
(14) Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
(15) And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
DLG note... Even Jewish sacrifices and celebrations (which came from God), without contrition for sin, and faith in God, are repugnant to Him.
(16) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
(17) Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
(18) Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
DLG note... True faith, true salvation results in miraculous transformation. Salvation is not self improvement or religious ritual, it is a right relationship with God.
John 1:29
(29) The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
DLG note... God's sacrifice for our sin is His Own Son, Jesus Christ. To deny the Christ of the Bible is to deny deliverance from sin and judgment and to deny the only true, and living God.
Ephesians 1:3-9
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
DLG note... This is addressed to those who trust Christ for salvation.
(4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
DLG note... Biblical election is election to BE holy and without blame. There is no salvation for those who continue in sin.
(5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
DLG note... Biblical predestination is predestination to be saved by Jesus Christ. There is no other way to be reconciled to God.
(6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
(7) In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
DLG note... Biblical redemption from our sin and guilt is predicated on the sacrificial death of Christ and provided through the grace of God. Salvation is not simply a bookkeeping transaction, but a relational transformation.
(8) Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
DLG note... Salvation is consistent with thoughtful and intelligent reasoning.
(9) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
DLG note... God has revealed to us His plan to reconcile us to Himself through His Son. It was not contrived by human invention, it was derived from Divine intention.
