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yeshuaslavejeff
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your right, i just was browsing through quickly
and saw this quote:
[No myth ever had a basis in reality—even a cleverly devised myth. No myth ever had an objective reality in which the truth of it broke into history with power and coming like the transfiguration of Jesus Christ.]

well, today, today's world, 'the myth' or 'the lie'
of the anti-messiah
is held firmly by the vast majority of the world,
including the usa.
the myth has/IS history with power (over most)
although the power of any and every temporal thing
is just that, temporary or ending with time,
right now most of the population has been and is
completely deceived by a myth
and does not follow nor obey nor believe in
Yeshua the Messiah the Lamb of G+d slain for our
sins.
the neighbor who waves to you in the morning,
the co-worker who likes or doesn't like you,
the fellow shoppers at the grocery or hardware
store,
=== mostly lost souls!!! Get it??? Who can
help them? Who can make a difference? Who can
show them they are believing A MYTH?(that all is
well, or that they don't need a saviour,
- the myth that their lives are ok,
- the myth that they won't be damned - probably
they will be damned, unless the truth is unveiled
in their minds, if they will turn to Yeshua to be
healed.

the myth has power over most people, that is why
they desperately need to hear the Gospel of Yeshua
in truth and in power, to see selfsacrificial love(agape) of believers laying down their lives
for one another-counting others needs as more
important than their own, not just word and show.

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1Peter4:1,2 Yeshua suffered physical suffering:disciples have same mind/ willingness to share shame/physical suffering with Yeshua/His people.
Biblio:"willtherealhereticsplease standup?"byBercot(churchTruth)

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K. Elijah Layfield
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Don't really understand your point. Just because something is believed by someone doesn't make it true. The point of the post is that the objective reality of who the Son of God is became a subjective reality for Peter. It was something outside of time and history breaking into history. Every myth invented on earth is not that at all. It would have been helpful if you would have explained why you're stringing together quotes if you wanted to make a point.
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yeshuaslavejeff
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[No myth ever had a basis in reality—even a cleverly devised myth. No myth ever had an objective reality in which the truth of it broke into history with power and coming like the transfiguration of Jesus Christ.]

what about "even the elect were almost deceived" ?

today, myth is exceedingly more believed than truth.

and "the whole world will be deceived"

and "just as in the days of noah"


Who thinks the truth ?

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1Peter4:1,2 Yeshua suffered physical suffering:disciples have same mind/ willingness to share shame/physical suffering with Yeshua/His people.
Biblio:"willtherealhereticsplease standup?"byBercot(churchTruth)

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"For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:16-21 ESV)

The very idea of the trustworthiness of Christianity is one part supernatural worked out in history. Peter recounts one of the many events that must have changed his life—the transfiguration of Christ. No myth ever had a basis in reality—even a cleverly devised myth. No myth ever had an objective reality in which the truth of it broke into history with power and coming like the transfiguration of Jesus Christ. At that moment in time, man was privy to what had been theorized and often blatantly denied—there is a God, He speaks, He is more majestic that all that we imagined, and He is here. Or He was here. His brief 33 years interlude into history was so magnificent that all of history leading up to the incarnation seemed to be in anticipation of that God taking flesh. Then "It was finished" and just like that the tangible, touchable Son of God was removed from our physical sight again to our spiritual sight and all of history holds its breath in anticipation—but of what now?

God doesn't just leave us star struck or dumbstruck at the majesty revealed in the Son of God. He doesn't leave us groaning with agonies of, "But He was only transfigured for such a short time. Oh we want to see more of that Blessed Being." He makes it evidently clear that just as the Son came, prophesied and publicized, He shall return again. And on that return there shall be no intermittent gaps of glory as we gaze at His majesty. The prophesied return is even more sure that the revealing of the Son of Man's glory in the presence of witnesses.

So with the knowledge of this sure prophetic word, we are to respond not by taking the myth captive by our darkened mind as we do all worldly myths, but we are to hold it up as a lamp to shine in our dark places. Believer do you have such a place in the recesses of your soul that you even fear to tread? Do you have a portion in your marriage that neither is invited to go for the darkness that threatens to overcome? Is there some encroaching darkness that seems able to absorb the very breathable air of your Christian life—leaving you gasping for the freshness of an open window of glorious light? Shine forth the sure prophetic word into your soul! Let your light shine in your marriage by exalting Christ over ever difference of opinion about financial strain. Let the beautiful rays of His return be the very thing that frees your from of life of despair and doubt. For our Bridegroom will never, NEVER, forsake His bride. One day shall dawn with the trumpeting of God's trumpet, the shout of a might archangel, and the cracking of the clouds rolling away for a Morning Star to rise out of the belief of our hearts into the sight of our eyes.

For the trustworthiness of Christianity is greatly produced from a God who not only breaks into history and pronounces, "This is my beloved Son," but also, "My beloved Son shall return to reign!" And through the superintendence of the Holy Spirit, God has made a mighty name for Himself as a God who keeps His Word. When God says, You can count it as gospel, because already seen it happen—moreover, He has already MADE it happen. God, that Being-Which-Time-Can-Not-Contain, is so reliable that one could run a universe on His timetable. He's never late, never pre-occupied, never surprised, and never unknowably aloof. Although liberals may say that it is impossible for the supernatural to be historical—it's merely a cleverly devised myth—the day is coming when we shall be eyewitnesses of the consummation of the prophesied word of something more sure than the supernatural. On that day we shall see that the supernatural had all along been the reality, and our feigning and fighting for godless freedom was nothing but a poorly devised myth.

Treasuring Christ

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