Background to look at things

The articles presented on this site shall be looking at what people say and at what is really written in the Bible. We do advice everybody coming along here to check for themselves what is really written in the Scriptures.

Quadruple combination opened to the Book of Isaiah – note the cross references between Biblical and Latter-day Saint scripture in the footnotes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There are many Bible translations of which some may be translated in a confusing way, paraphrasing more what was in the original writing and often letting out the names, replacing them with words like ‘lord‘ not keeping it clear any more about which lord is spoken in the verse. This way a lot of people got confused about Jesus and God and did not come to see clearly who said what.

We advise you therefore not necessarily to stick to one Bible translation and to compare sayings in your Bible on one place with sayings at another place in the same translation.

For us the Book of books, a library of 66 works written by men God has chosen to write down His Words, we consider the most valuable guide to give us insight in the Works of God and in the Wants of God. We prefer to stick to what is written in those 66 books and do not have any need to stick to human doctrines. God is a God of clarity and order, not of confusion. He shall give in His Word what we do need to know, and that what He finds not relevant and did not let notate it down shall also be of no relevance for having something to take as a belief matter. This means that we allow people to have different opinions about matters which are not clearly indicated in the Bible.  Each individual has received brains and can use them in different ways. How a person want to say things is the freedom of each. We as followers of Christ want to speak in accordance of Jesus’ will, asking us to be like brothers and sisters united in his body. that union does not have to mean we all are and say exactly the same. That is a big misunderstanding of what unity means.

Our background and Guide is the Word of God and our wish to do the Will of God. Believing in Only One God, like our forefathers in the lineage of the patriarch Abraham did, we also do take Abraham as our patriarch or father, and like Christ Jesus did worship this God of Abraham we worship that God of Abraham. In believing in the words of Jesus and the other prophets we find unity, following the commandments of God.

We would like to ask you, like we do ourselves, not to keep to the human teachings and human doctrines, but to take as main guide the Bible itself, the words like they are printed black on white.

Put away your old you and everything you might have learned in your previous life, and dare to look at the Bible as a fresh newborn baby. Getting from the start, learning more and more, little bit by little bit, giving your self time to absorb and to learn what is really written in the Bible and not taking the footnotes as divine words but concentrating on the Bible text itself.

We want to take Jesus as our master teacher and belief what he himself believed.  We may come form all different backgrounds, be from all different cultures, but as main background we want to consider us as descendants from the same first Adam, wanting to become the same descendants from the second Adam (Jesus).  Together we want to go for the same believes Jesus had and appeal to the Lord Messiah for guidance in identifying the true God.

Happily we have a clear record of Jesus’ belief about who God is. Not only that — his creed is doubly confirmed by the fact that the Jew Jesus is in perfect agreement with a Jewish scribe, as together they discuss the greatest of all questions we humans must face. Who is God? So prepare now to hear what Jesus commands us in terms of our definition of God.

“One of the scribes [professional Bible teachers]… seeing that Jesus had answered them well, asked him, ‘Which commandment is first of all?’ Jesus answered, ‘The first is this: “Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you are to love the Lord your God with all your heart…

”’ And the scribe said to him, ‘Well said, teacher; in truth you have said that He is one and there is no other besides Him” (Mark 12:28-32).

That Nazarene teacher which told many parables and did many miracles not only astonished many people in his time, he still can surprise us. Standing in wonder for him, we want to share with others the acts of this wonderful, special man, who was called ‘son of man‘ and ‘son of God‘.

Our and your background to come to the faith should be the willingness to study the Word of God and the will to look for what is really written there and to  understand what God wants to bring in His Message, His Word which has stand the wear and tear and sustained all adversary by human beings. whatever man did to destroy the book of books, they did not succeed and it still stands strong and can be found in many hands all over the world.

Jesus asked his followers to study that Word thoroughly and to go out in the world to preach the message, the Good News, of the coming Kingdom of God. that message is our backbone, and should also be or become yours.

Jesus is our cornerstone. On him we try to build our community and want to unite as brothers and sisters in him, all over the world.

With our eyes directed in the Book of books, the infallible Word of God, we want to build our lives according to the guidelines of that precious book. The knowledge we receive from it we want to share, not as being it our own, but as being Words given freely to us, to share with others in love and peace, for becoming children of the One and Only One True God.

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Additional reading:

1. “Who is The Most High” ? Who is thee Eternal? Who is Yehovah? Who is God?
2. Words to push and pull
3. Being Religious and Spiritual 7 Transcendence to become one
4. Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
5. People Seeking for God 2 Human interpretations
6. Seeing or not seeing and willingness to find God
7. Being Religious and Spiritual 5 Gnostic influences
8. Caricaturing and disapproving sceptics, religious critics and figured out ethics
9. Building up the spirit of the soul
10. You do not belong to yourselves,for you were bought with a price
11. We are redeemed; we are “bought with a price”
12. To mean, to think, outing your opinion, conviction, belief – Menen, mening, overtuiging, opinie, geloof
13. Religions and Mainliners
14. Jerusalem and a son’s kingdom
15. The Bride New Jerusalem
16. A participation in the body of Christ
17. Marriage of Jesus 6 Jesus said to them “My wife”
18. Marriage of Jesus 9 Reason for a new marriage
19. Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant
20. Reply to questions concerning The Bride of Christ
21. Congregate, to gather, to meet
22. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
23. Integrity of the fellowship
24. Fellowship
25. Atonement And Fellowship 3/8
26. Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
27. Atonement And Fellowship 7/8
28. Atonement And Fellowship 8/8
29. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
30. Philippians 1 – 2
31. Synagogue, Church or Ecclesia for the Christian
32. Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
33. Vision blurred by cumulative burden of divisions
34. Quibbling siblings united or allied children of an organisation or a church
35. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
36. A small company of Jesus’ footstep follower
37. Intentions of an Ecclesia
38. One Mind, One Accord
39. Manifests for believers #5 Christian Union
40. United people under Christ
41. Major points of belief
42. Christadelphian people
43. About Brothers in Christ
44. What are Brothers in Christ
45. Who are the Christadelphians
46. What Christadelphians believe
47. Christadelphian people
48. Often asked questions: faq – English
49. Our Christadelphian faith
50. Our Creed and Practice
51. What Christadelphians teach
52. Our openness to being approachable
53. Equal?
54. Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
55. Those who love Jesus
56. The Law of Christ: Law of Love
57. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
58. Agape, a love to share with others from the Fruit of the Spirit
59. The task given to us to love each other
60. Christianity is a love affair
61. The Greatest of These is Love
62. Unarmed truth and unconditional love
63. Unconditional love
64. Compassion and Discipline
65. Good or bad preacher
66. Writers needed to preach to non-believers
67. Learn how to go out into the world and proclaim the Good News of the coming Kingdom

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