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I BELIEVE GOD'S TESTIMONY OF HIMSELF

WHAT DO I BELIEVE ABOUT GOD AND HIS SON? The Hebrew word for believe is Aman, it means to lean upon, picture a person leaning against something.  To believe God is to lean upon God.  This is the word we use to sign every petition we made of God, "Amen.".  In Hebrew the "E"  in the middle of the word "Amen" is pronounce as "Ay" as in HAY.  So you might hear a rabbi say, Amain instead of Amen because the "E" gives the "Ay" sound.      When we say in the name of Jesus Christ Amen, this is what we are are actually saying; in the name of Jesus Christ I believe, or in the name of Jesus Christ I am leaning. The Hebrew word Aman is transitive, this mean it must have an object.  Belief cannot stand alone, it must have an object on which to believe, you cannot believe in belief.   The object of our belief must be able to sustain that for which we are believing.  I would not lean against a dangling rope expecting it to hold me up.  ...

WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO

The Law and the Promise Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant, and He did. The Abrahamic Covenant did not follow the law of Moses; the law of Moses followed the Abrahamic Covenant. This is very important to understanding the plan of God. Why was the law of Moses given? The Bible said, it was given as a school master, for the purpose of leading us to Christ. The law was given in order to keep man from going outside the limit of God's set boundary. God had a people and He intended for them to walk with Him in righteousness. Since man natural instinct is to go against the will of God, and since man could not possible know the righteous demand of a just God, He had to set forth a standard with the intent that they would after seeing His mighty works in Egypt, trust And obey Him. The law was therefore given as perimeter to keep God's chosen people from wandering into the sinful parts that the heathen nation around them was walking in. We know how that turned out. Ma...