I’m going to share some tips regarding the scriptures. Hope these may help you. Jude 1:24-25.
What we agree on
I was in church and talked to an elder who said: ‘it’s that we agree on the essentials…’. I counted, ‘I’m not sure that is enough…’
The reason that I answered that way is that Jesus asked us to believe in Him and our intellectual ideas aren’t really the essence of the life we have in Jesus.
I tell you, people believe in all sorts of things. We have all sorts of ideas. We can tend to, in our idolatry, follow mere men (or women) and prefer that over the Lord.
Let’s look at the scriptures.
Joh 6:29
The work that we are asked to do: believe in the One whom the Father sent. You may believe in Calvin, Ellen White, the Pope, the Church, this cult leader, that cult leader, but really, isn’t the call to believe in the Lord Jesus, and be saved?
Beginning
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, so it is written, but not just in the Torah (teaching) of Moses, but also John 1:1.
TIP: John writes this to confirm the words written in the Torah, to bring the words to fullness. The Lord Jesus is right there, in the beginning, not a new god.
Who is Jesus
The Lord Jesus is not just a man, nor just a prophet.
John 1 it reads ‘in the beginning…’ to match with ‘in the beginning…’ in Genesis 1. The Word was with God (the Father) and was God (like the Father).
Jesus said he is one with the Father, John 17:21.
Jesus said, before Abraham was, ‘I am’, John 8:58-59. The only reason they would then choose to stone Him, was because He equated Himself with God the Father.
The Lord Jesus ate a meal with Abraham, Gen 18.
If you have the power of God the Father, you are God, no matter what men may say: He healed a man born blind, He calmed the storm, He has all authority in heaven and earth, He is the beginning, the end, the first, and the last.
The Lord Jesus walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden, Gen 3:8.