Originally posted by @sonshipDo you see yourself as being among those that have been "made holy"?
And this is why God predestinated some in Christ to be MADE [b]holy. And He determined that before the foundation of the world - before the creation of the universe.[/b]
Church is indeed a precious word because, as above, I showed God dispenses Himself into people to constitute them as holy.
Therefore the church universal (and the church local in conjunction) is a holy temple in the Lord. That is a habitation of God in spirit.
The God of this universe, invisible, transcendent, seeks to dispense Himself in Christ, as the Spirit into people. He would build them up in love and life to be a "holy temple" in the Lord.
"Being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus being the cornerstone.
In whom all the building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.
In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit." (Eph. 2:20-22)
Man was created to receive the transcendent eternal and uncreated Person into him as Christ in the Holy Spirit. This is that God in His universe may have a holy habitation of Himself in spirit a living holy temple in the Lord.
This revelation is there for all peoples to see in the New Testament.
Originally posted by @sonshipAre you upset?
Now YOUR reaction is to turn now and trample this revelation under your feet and attack the messengers. The unclean dog nature and dirty pig nature of the fallen Satanified being will react to that which is the holy truth being set before it.
Originally posted by @wolfgang59
You are in denial
You don't know
That is what I think.
You are in denial
You don't know
That is what I think.
I do think I wrote that by witness no one knows where the creation came from. That is true. We were not yet created. So HOW could we be a witness to creation?
But I know by faith.
"By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not come into being out of things which appear." (Hebrews 11:3)
This is good enough for now.
We can explore the mechanics of the universe for many many happy years and perhaps centuries to come.
But it is revealed to us by God's word that in the beginning He, outside of all the universe, created the heavens and the earth.
So by having directly witnessing it, I do not know.
But by God having revealed to man, I know.
Now you can explain the accidental and gradual emergence of the DNA molecule's design briefly if you think Atheism has a better answer.