>>764432

Something to meditate on.

Not "what" but who is God? Since God created man in His image we know He is a personal (relational) God since we are relational beings.

God is perfect existence.

God the Son, Jesus, is perfect expression of perfect existence.

God the Holy Spirit is perfect appreciation (i.e.perfect knowledge) of perfect expression of perfect existence.

The Trinity - three in one and one in three.

And all expressed in the first few verses of Genesis.

"In the beginning, God…" perfect existence.

"And God said, let there be light and there was light…" Perfect expression of perfect existence.

"And God saw the light that it was good." Pefect appreciation of perfect expression of perfect existence.

>>764632

"…10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.…"

>>764647

There is none good, no not one. Only God is good (perfect).

Those who are born of the Spirit of God are forensically/legally made righteous through faith in Jesus' atoning sacrifice for our sin. It's called the doctrine of imputation.

>>764651

That's not suprising - Satan's foremost MO is to counterfeit God's works.

Thos who have truly been born again of the Spirit of God will testify to the life-changing experience - it's not what we do for God, it's what He miraculously does for us - He gives us His Spirit and that changes us at the very core of our being. We have a new heart with new desires and new motivation. It is no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me.

>>765014

Gnostics won't mention humanity's innate sinfulness and the need to be saved by Jesus' atoning sacrifice for sin - he bore, in my place, the punishment for sin that was rightfully due to me. If God is just (and He is) then sin MUST me judged and punished. None of us would thunk much of a judge that didn't punish evildoers. Such a judge would be an unjust judge.

God's answer to human sin is Jesus' atoning sacrifice - he died in my place.

Gnostics are all about hidden knowledge and self help. Christianity is about what God has done for us in and through Jesus. It's a simple message that even a child can understand.

The wages of sin is death.

But then, John 3:16

That's the Gospel.