But Knowing The Truth Will Set You Free
Lie # 3 “Christians must keep the Ten Commandments to reach heaven.”
No, the “good thief” was a lawbreaker and is in heaven today. Only perfect people qualify for heaven and only being reborn of God qualifies an in Adam sinner for heaven through rebirth by faith alone, not by obedience to any standard of behavior. The Law is not of faith. Anything not of faith is sin, says Paul. See Chapters Eight and Nine in the Elephant book for more details.
Lie # 4 “The four Gospels are the same as the Gospel that Jesus revealed to Paul.”
No, the four Gospels focused mainly on Jesus’ earthly life before Calvary which He lived under the Law. Jesus’ whole Gospel of grace, revealed exclusively to Paul in about 42 AD, is about what Jesus accomplished for us at Calvary – and beyond. He replaced the Mosaic Law covenant with the New Covenant of grace, opening heaven to reborn believers. See Chapters One and Twelve for more explanation.
Coming Next Week: Lies # 5 and #6 that often confuse many Christians. REMEMBER: Wrong believing which leads to wrong living. Conversely, right believing leads to right and prosperous living in Christ.
We know from scripture that Jesus was crucified, died and was buried, then He arose from the grave and later, ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of Father-God.
We now also know, through the Fifth Gospel that Jesus revealed directly to Paul, that the same process happens spiritually, by grace through faith, to every in Adam person who becomes ”saved” by being reborn of God through agreeing with Romans 10:9-13.
By doing so, one’s core being – the spirit-self that is dead to God in Adam – is made alive as a New creation, who never existed before, and is now spiritually compatible –“one spirit” with God in Christ. Paul referred to this transformation happening in one’s “inner man.”