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Prologue:-
The most important aspect of the Christian faith is that one is prepared to die for one's belief, as Jesus the Christ did. That is not kill for it but to put one's life on the line and, if necessary, to die for it. After all that is what Jesus promised his disciples, in the first place. He never promised a life full of riches and pleasure but to take up one's cross and follow Him. Not riches on earth but put your treasure in heaven where your heart will be also.
So. to be prepared to die for one's faith that Jesus is who He claimed to be, the Son of God, must be based on a sound, logical knowledge and believable theological understanding of just what is what. There follows therefore an update of Christian teaching that goes back to the original aspects of the Christian faith which is required before the supposed Christian professional theologians made it into what it is not.
And where do we get this information you ask? Well, from the writings of those in the past and present who will give us their understanding of time from the beginning to the end. As that time has been claimed to be constant, "Some Science Theories Revisited" tells us this, then we can now speak scientifically as the beginning and the end of time.
Much of the writings we shall see are from the' Bible', so called to with a capital B to differentiate it from all the other bibles that record knowledge on many other subjects. We shall look into the Old and the New Testaments (the first peoples and the Jewish histories in the old and the Christian in the new) and other modern science books, just to keep us up to date so to speak, or write even.
The background to our existence is as follows :-
1) The Creator created the Heavens and the Earth as a place for human beings to dwell. However, there are other signs that confirm the existence of the Creator and these will be noted in due time. It is important that all the clues that show the Creator, yet safe from unbelieving eyes because they refuse to see them and not because they are there not to be seen, that point in the one safe direction for those who would follow Jesus the Christ.
2) Humans were given 'free will' so to chose their own pathway through life, no matter how short or long or easy or difficult that life may be.
3) In order to have a free will choice, there must be a seemingly equal choice to take between two seeming equal opposing pathways; that is what a free will choice is all about.
4) Therefore the Creator created an equal 'opposing' god spirit being who exists, for the moment, in a non-time dimension (as does the Creator) and whose attributes are the opposite to those of the Creator. Thus this spirit being, known as 'Satan' or the 'Devil', is the liar from the beginning who tells the opposite of truth and wishes not the well being of the human race whereas the Creator is the truth and does want the well being of the human race.
5) The first humans, exercising their own free will, chose to not obey the wishes of the Creator (which were questioned by the Devil and have been ever since) and thereby began the first error which is called sin. By doing so, they created the possibility of non obedience to the wishes of the Creator for all of us, thereby causing the rest of us to start life with this disadvantage.
6) Humans just do not seem to get the concept of free will, what it is all about and where we end up if the wrong decision is made.
So we come to the present day and the battle for the choices of mankind continue as fierce as ever. It is hoped that by revisiting some of the Christian theologies, light will shine in some dark places.
Now there are three pillars upon which the Christian faith stands and all other pillars come from them. They are the concepts of the Trinity, the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ and the reconciliation between the ages of the Earth, as portrayed by current science in the guise of the 'Big Bang' and the theories known collectively as the 'standard model' and the Biblical account of the creation of the earth as in the first few verses of the Bible. It is necessary to understand these three aspects in order to understand the Christ and what it means to be a Christian. Let us look into each one at a time.
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