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DISPROVING CHRIST !?

The personal name of our Savior, "Jesus" means "Yahweh saves." "Christ" is Jesus' title, and it is a Greek word for "anointed." And "Messiah" is Hebrew for "anointed." Jesus was anointed by God the Holy Spirit when he was baptized in the Jordan River. This is the point in time when Jesus laid aside his tools as a carpenter under the tutelage of his stepfather Joseph and inaugurated his work of forgiving us our sins.

Christianity is at the same time an inclusive religion and exclusive religion. Christianity is "inclusive" in that it "includes" all sinners and all manners of sin for those who repent and place their trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. At the same time Christianity is "exclusive" stating salvation is found only through faith in the Second Person of the Trinity. As Jesus says of himself, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (Jn 14:6).

Ethnically Jesus was Jewish yet theologically he was "Christian" if I may be so permitted to speak. That being said all people come from Noah, or, more concretely we all come from our first parents, Adam and Eve.

St. Paul says, "... he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, (Acts 17:26). St. Peter stated the same teaching while he was in the home of the Roman Centurion Cornelius, "God shows no partiality" (Acts 10:34).

St. Paul states when we come to salvation in Jesus we bring nothing of creation to our baptism for in Jesus there is neither "... Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:28). In the womb of Holy Baptism we are born from above (Jn 3:3) unto salvation in Jesus for salvation is a gift from Jesus to all who believe.

The heart and center of the Christian faith is that "death" is NOT the last word. The resurrected Jesus is the last word showing that on the cross on Good Friday Jesus through his shed blood did indeed defeat the unholy axis of sin, death, and the devil. Having defeated these enemies on the cross they could not and did not hold him in the grave and he rose three days later.

St. Paul explicitly states in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 that the Christian faith can be proven false. Yes, you read what I said. The Christian faith can be disproven. Simple find or exhume the dead body of Jesus and Christianity is proven to be a fraud. But not even Jesus' worst enemies, the Roman and Jewish leaders were able to deposit his decaying corpse in downtown Jerusalem for the simple fact that Jesus rose from the grave on the third as he said he would (e.g. Jn 2:19; cf. Mt 17:22-23; Mk 9:30-31). Your sins are forgiven!

In Christ, "Pastor Weber