Wow!!
Did God save us or does He need our help?
Mankind doesn't "Help" God save them. Mankind either accepts His Salvation or they reject it, choosing instead to create their own way and their own Path as did Eve and the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time.
Matt. 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings,
and ye would not!
Was Jesus not able to gather these EG? Did He need their help? Or did they reject Him and His Instruction?
Jer. 6:
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said,
We will not walk therein.
Was God not able to save these EG, did He need their help? Did God fail them, or did they reject Him and the Path he ordained beforehand that they should "walk in them"?
Matt. 7:
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.
Was God not able to save these EG, did He need their help? Or did they show by their "Works" that they didn't believe in Him?
Matt. 13:
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend,
and them which do (Man's Work) iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Was God not able to save these EG, did He need their help? Or did they also reject God's Instruction?
The most important study a person will be involved in is the deception of the serpent that Jesus gave us the example of in the very beginning of HIS WORD.
This deceiver used parts of God's Word to deceive Eve. And what was the deception?
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
First it convinced Eve she was saved, already immortal in whatever state she was in.
5 For God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, (Reject God's instruction and lean on your own understanding)
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Second, it convinced Eve that God's instructions were "against her". That His instructions imprisoned her, and that to know the truth she must be "FREED" from God's Instructions.
Was Eve's Faith in God or herself? By her "works" we know her Faith was in herself.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
She not only rejected God's instruction, but she promoted this same rejection to others as it is to this day. Paul was worried about this very thing.
2 Cor. 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or
if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him.
No EG, God doesn't need our help, We need His?