It's not just that I'm older. I lived, for decades, repeating the exact same things you are now going through. Exactly, word for word. And then I kept right on dutifully saying them for decades more. Until I read the Bible. NOT as a book to use to locate the "proof" verses I had been told to memorize, but to see what words were actually in there.... without my preconceived expectations.
Of course I had read the Bible previously. Several times. At age 8, I was the tops of ALL the kids in Sunday School (including teens) at our Bible Sword Drills. And years later, I went through more Bible teaching than a lot of people can even imagine in the CoC. And all of it just strengthened and solidified the same thinking you are now learning. Please don't be so naïve as to think that I didn't "know" all those "truths" that that you were told to believe. But, then, I read the Bible.
Not, "Here's a truth, and this verse "proves" it... but, the Bible as it is actually written.
I asked you to do something very simple. But, you haven't done it, have you? No, of course you haven't. And you don't intend to. Why? Because you actually think you already "know." And until God moves you to want to know what He said instead of what you were told to believe, you never will. And that is fine. But, you would think that you would want to be able to show others where the Bible said "the wages of sin are anything more than 'death'." Trouble is, you will be shocked when you can't find it,
Punishment? The Bible doesn't say we were to be tortured. That came on Jesus because He chose to actually "BECOME" sin, in order to complete His mission of destroying the work of the Devil. (None of us has ever become sin.) What is "the work of the Devil?" In one word, it is "sin". And by becoming "sin" Jesus took "sin" with Him when He paid our debt of DEATH. (Death is ALL that the Bible says we owe.) He died, and "sin" died right along with Him. Went right down into the grave with Him.... and was left there, for all Eternity, when He arose. Do you recall the words, "He conquered death?" It is referred to in the Bible as "The Last Enemy."
Of course I had read the Bible previously. Several times. At age 8, I was the tops of ALL the kids in Sunday School (including teens) at our Bible Sword Drills. And years later, I went through more Bible teaching than a lot of people can even imagine in the CoC. And all of it just strengthened and solidified the same thinking you are now learning. Please don't be so naïve as to think that I didn't "know" all those "truths" that that you were told to believe. But, then, I read the Bible.
Not, "Here's a truth, and this verse "proves" it... but, the Bible as it is actually written.
I asked you to do something very simple. But, you haven't done it, have you? No, of course you haven't. And you don't intend to. Why? Because you actually think you already "know." And until God moves you to want to know what He said instead of what you were told to believe, you never will. And that is fine. But, you would think that you would want to be able to show others where the Bible said "the wages of sin are anything more than 'death'." Trouble is, you will be shocked when you can't find it,
Punishment? The Bible doesn't say we were to be tortured. That came on Jesus because He chose to actually "BECOME" sin, in order to complete His mission of destroying the work of the Devil. (None of us has ever become sin.) What is "the work of the Devil?" In one word, it is "sin". And by becoming "sin" Jesus took "sin" with Him when He paid our debt of DEATH. (Death is ALL that the Bible says we owe.) He died, and "sin" died right along with Him. Went right down into the grave with Him.... and was left there, for all Eternity, when He arose. Do you recall the words, "He conquered death?" It is referred to in the Bible as "The Last Enemy."
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