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1 | Who dose not belive in the TERM Trinity? | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 20972 | ||
1 Peter 2:21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, (NASB) mincc: Thank you for your reply and for the good Scripture quotation, with which I agree wholeheartedly, as I do with all Scripture. This verse (1 Peter 2:21) does indeed plainly say that Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example for us to follow in His steps. However, leaving us an example of suffering is not the same as leaving us an example of what we must live up to in order to be saved. We are saved and justified, not by following His example, but by believing (trusting, clinging to, adhering to, relying on) Christ for salvation. Thus, 1 Peter 2:21 doesn't cancel out or change the truth of my original posting, which is as follows. "He came to die on the cross as our substitute, to atone for our sins. He died for us so that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He did NOT come to earth *merely* to set an example" (emphasis added to the word merely). If all He had done was to set an example and then ascend back into heaven, without first going to the cross to die, we would all still be in our sins. Thank you again for your interest and patience and for pointing out the verse in 1 Peter to us. |
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2 | Who dose not belive in the TERM Trinity? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20982 | ||
Kalos, may I add a small note to your post, which stands well enough of itself and really needs no additional garnish? ..... The Lord Jesus was, in His few years on earth, a paradigm for living life than which no better one has ever been set. But the kind of life He led was, if I may so characterize it, eclipsed by the kind of death He died and the purpose for which He died. All other founders of world religions -- Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius -- all of them were born to live. Only Christ and Christ alone was born to die. It is only He whose death was foretold centuries before He was born of the virgin. And, unlike the founders of other religions who offer salvation through works performed according to their teachings, Christ alone gives salvation by his atoning death on the cross. So in His life on earth He gave us an example for living our life on earth, but it is in His death that He gives us life eternal in heaven with Him. --Hank | ||||||