About the Thief on a cross next to Jesus:
Scripture is indeed inspired, but not Punctuation. The scripture in question is Luke 23:43.
Notice the "comma" between the words "you" and "today'. Here we see just how powerful a comma can be! In this instance it seems to be powerful enough to give life at death. At that is not the case.
This is wrong> "Verily, I say to you , TODAY you will be with Me in Paradise."
This is correct> "Verily, I say to you TODAY, you shall be with Me in Paradise."
Now we know that Jesus didn't ascend to His Father the day He died. After He was raised He said to mary,, "Do not cling to Me, I have not yet ascended to My Father, but go to My Brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to My father and to your Father and to My God and to your God."
Christs kingdom is set up at His second Coming. (Matthew 25:11). All the rightous of all the ages will enter it at that time (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17) and not at death.
There is a splitting of hairs my brother, he was now raised back to life in the flesh his perfect flesh, his perfected body had to go and put the blood from it on the tabernacle in heaven
Now his perfect body had to be in the ground dead, (not his Spirit) for three days as proof of his death, which ratified our new covenant, but he still had to place the blood of himself over the Mercy seat in Heaven, that is why he said what he said to Mary
New Covenant my Brother
[h=3]Hebrews 9:15-17[/h]King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]
15 [/SUP]And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
[SUP]
16 [/SUP]For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
[SUP]
17 [/SUP]For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
What is this new Covenant?
[h=3]Hebrews 10:17[/h]King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]
17 [/SUP]And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Why is that did Christ really take away the sin of the world, John the Babtist was the witness that this is what he came to do
[h=3]John 1:29[/h]King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]
29 [/SUP]The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
Now either Christ did this or he did not? your choice is either to beleive God or not and your choice is free, no law is included in here to do becasue
Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.
We also are not under the old Priesthood we are in a new one
Hebrews 7:11
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical
priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,)
what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
After the cross my brother all things changed form old to new, the old Covenant that is, yet the same promise stayed in effect from Abraham on and that is why in the order of Melchizadek a priest forever and not in the Levitcal Priesthood. You know and Christ was not from the levite tribe, Christ was from the tribe of Judah
Take a look into a Kaleidoscope and just turn it to the resurrection of Christ and see life here and now forever in the Spirit of Christ and forsake your own body in the process and recieve the life that he came to give us, while the enemy the flesh is out to steal, kill and destroy, and Christ said this the verse below before he went to the cross, so after the cross, the resurrection is the fulfillment of the verse below, and this is not speaking about having riches here on this earth or anything of that sort, Christ was speaking of us being born again in his Spirit of being 100% dependant on God the Father just as he was and is. That is waht the abundant life is
John 10:10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it
more abundantly