By Tricia McCannon
The place was once Jesus for the 1st thirty years of his lifestyles? the place and what used to be he taught? Who have been his teachers?
This interesting quantity deals startling new facts culled from hard-to-find Vatican texts, theosophical classics, legends and airtight symbolism to build radical new photograph of Jesus and his occasions. McCannon postulates that Jesus spent not less than seven years in Egypt, a few years in England, and visited either India and Tibet sooner than starting his public ministry in Palestine.
This is a wide-ranging exam of the direct hyperlinks and similarities among Jesus' teachings and the lessons of assorted secret religions and sects that have been well known in the course of his lifetime, together with the Essenes, Buddhists, and Druids. McCannon bargains compelling facts that locations Jesus' existence and venture firmly within the context of the deeper non secular teachings that got here ahead of him.
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Question: What are the steps to salvation? Answer: People like the idea of an instruction manual with five steps that, if followed, will result in salvation. An example of this is Islam with its Five Pillars. According to Islam, if the Five Pillars are obeyed, salvation will be granted. Because the idea of a step-by-step process to salvation is appealing, many in the Christian community make the mistake of presenting salvation as a result of a step-by-step process. Roman Catholicism has seven sacraments.
So, in the minds of the apostles and early disciples, the idea of an un-baptized believer was unheard of. When a person claimed to believe in Christ, yet was ashamed to proclaim his faith in public, it indicated that he did not have true faith. In this way, baptism was closely associated with the decision to trust Christ. If baptism is necessary for salvation, why would Paul say, “Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power” (1 Corinthians 1:17)?
God was merciful to the Ninevites who repented at the preaching of Jonah, who described God as “a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity” (Jonah 4:2). David said God is “gracious and merciful; slow to anger and great in lovingkindness. The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works” (Psalm 145:8–9 NASB). But the Bible also speaks of God’s justice and His wrath over sin. In fact, God’s perfect justice is a defining characteristic: “There is no other God besides Me, a just God and a Savior” (Isaiah 45:21 NKJV).