Last night, I explained to my Christian friend, my brother doesn't acknowledge Jesus is God fully, and man fully, but he just goes to explain how Bahai faith is "true". My brother says "Jesus is true and he believes in the bible, that it is true and just a question of interpretation. " He asks me for my understanding of what he believes.
Because the spirit of Jesus, God's Holy Spirit, is in me and guiding me now that I am born again; gave me new life, I can see clearly that my brother is standing outside of Jesus. My friend reconfirmed what I know - "Yes, Sarah, Look at 1 John 4 v.2:" 1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world."
My brother would disagree...he says, Oh, but look at the 'fruit' I produce (have you learned about the fruit from the tree in Genesis - did it look bad?" My brother says - Look at my son - isn't he fruit - from my beliefs. I would agree that my brother's son is a lovely person and God is big enough to give love abundantly to those who aren't Christ followers. God works in all. My brother's son is no better than the 'fruit' produced by my non-Christian twin sister. All our siblings sons and daughters are lovely people. So this does not differentiate anything. See, this is what is says in my notes (NIV):
Most of the eyewitnesses to Jesus' ministry had died by the time John composed this letter. (1 John). some of the second- or thir generation Christians began to have doubts about what they had been taught about Jesus. Some Christians with a Greek background had a hard time believing that jesus was human as well as divine, because in Platonic thought the spirit was all-important. The body was only a prison from which one desired to escape. Heresies developed from a uniting of this kind of Platonic throught and Christianity.
A particularly widespread false teaching , later called Docetism (from a Greek word meaning "to seem"), held that Jesus was actually a spirit who only appeared to have a body. In reality he cast no shadow and left no footprints; he was God but not man. Another heretical teaching, related to Gnosticism (from a Greek word meaning "knowldge") held that all physical matter was evil, the spirit was good and only the intellectually enlightened could enjoy the benefits of religion. Both groups found it hard to believe in a Saviour who was fully human.
John answers these false teachers as an eyewitness to Jesus' life on earth. he saw Jesus, talked with him, touched him - he knew that Jesus was more than mere spirit. In the very first sentence of his letter, john established that Jesus had been alive before the world began and also that he lived as a man among men and women. In other words he was both divine and human.
Through the centuries, many hetetics have denied that Jesus was both God and man. In John's day people had trouble believing he was human; today more people have problems seeing him as God, But jesus' divine-human nature is a pivotal issue of Christianity. Before you accept what religious teachers say about any topic LISTEN carefully to what they believe about JESUS. To deny either his divinity or his humanity is to consider him less than Christ, the Saviour.
The Bahai faith dismisses the pivotal point here, they jump over it like a small hurdle and lollack in a balmy world of softness, light, 'good fruit', peace, 'understanding', unity in their own bubble - not God's heart in them.
Reading more about the Bahai Faith it physically makes me feel nauseous. I do understand where they are coming from. They are locked inside a bubble with their own reasoning. Jesus, as the divine son of God, lived here on Earth - God planned it from the begining. He is the author, creator God and the only way you can see it is to be obedient to the truth and have His spirit inside you. You are dead, if you don't. I didn't understand and I really wanted NOT to know Jesus at one time, I tried to resist, but then I surrendered and something supernatural happened to me. I am not the only one. I love my brother and if you are a Christian I ask you to pray for him and his family. May be one day, Jesus will make him see.
My brother asks me: "Would you agree that the spirit of Jesus' teachings: is to strive for peace, to lead a good life and be accepting to peoples of all beliefs. Would the Jesus you believe in object to this from Baha'u'llah: "Oh peoples of the world! Consort with the followers of religions in a spirit of friendship and fellowship". I can have friendship with my brother - more than that - love. The love of God. But fellowship, though I understand my brother, is not possible, I am not able, because I follow THE ONE whom He sent.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
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Isaiah 55 v 11
So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."
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