{"id":4153,"date":"2025-08-01T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:31:05","slug":"how-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you were asked, “How do you know that Jesus really did die and come back to life?” how would you respond, if you couldn’t point to the Bible as a Resource?<\/p>\n

It’s Current<\/strong><\/p>\n

We wouldn’t still be talking about the Resurrection today unless it really happened.<\/p>\n

Simon Ben Kosiba<\/a> is one of a handful of “counterfeit” Jewish Messiahs that were revered as fulfillments of Old Testament prophecy, but we don’t hear about them today because…<\/p>\n

…they’re dead.<\/p>\n

It works.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You live your life according to biblical principles, you benefit. If you opt to ignore those same principles, you have to deal with the consequences.<\/p>\n

Some may respond by saying, “Well, it works for you…” While that’s not always the case, more often than not, that response comes from a mindset that wants to reduce the world to a collection of personal preferences in order to justify maintaining themselves as their own bottom line.<\/p>\n

If you’re not sinning, then you’re not lying, you’re not stealing, and you’re loving your neighbor as yourself. You’re on a much better path than if you were doing things differently and that applies to everyone.<\/p>\n

It makes sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every “religion” empowers the individual with the ability to facilitate their own salvation. After a while, that starts to sound a little suspicious in that the focus is more on you and what you’re capable of despite the obvious limitations of the human condition.\u00a0 As a Christian, the only thing you contribute to your salvation is the sin that makes it necessary. That makes more sense in that the emphasis is now more on God – Who He is and what He’s capable of rather than on the individual and what they’re obviously not able to do.<\/p>\n

For further reading, check out COEXIST.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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