Protestantism

» Brian Tubbs - Answering Migisi (Post 11)

Do you believe everything that's written in the Bible? All of it?

You're setting up a trap here, and you know it. Much of the Bible is allegorical ("I am the Door," "I am the Vine," etc) and much of it is poetic expression (many of the Psalms) and/or general wisdom principles (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, etc).

I'll answer your question this way. I believe completely and totally in God and His revelation, and I trust the Bible as a written record of that revelation. But I do not believe in twisting the Bible into a superficial caricature as I've seen many professing Christians do and MOST critics do.

Wasn't Adam the son of God too? Made in God's image and likeness.

In a manner of speaking...yes. But Jesus is clearly identified in a special and unique way as "God's only begotten Son."

Being a child of God yourself through Adam's line, are you not also a son of God? Or would you be God's great, great, great, (to the power of ?) grandson?

You're just reaching for problems here.

'Will save', or has saved already? So, if Jesus has already paid for your sins past, present, and future - you don't have to pay for them yourself. You've got your ticket to Heaven no matter what you do. Or, does Jesus' free gift of salvation come with strings attached?

The "string" is you have to accept it and acknowledge who it is that's offering it to you. That's not an unreasonable "string."

And that "string" does not - in ANY way - contradict the Bible's description of the gift as free. Salvation is free, but it's not a free handout.

In the Bible, there were more than 'one' who rose from the dead, and raised people from the dead. Are they all divine beings because they rose, or raised others?

They were all divinely empowered. Jesus' resurrection is significant because it was the ultimate stamp of authentication - given Him by God the Father.

....Jesus wasn't the only man to appear to others after his death. Moses and Elijah appeared and talked to Jesus. Peter, James, and John his brother saw them.

Your point is......?

The significance of the resurrection appearances is that they were presented by Paul (and I'll stick to him, because even the most LIBERAL scholars concede I Corinthians to Paul) as EVIDENCE of the reality of Jesus' resurrection.