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# John 8:24 --- "You shall die in your sins IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT I AM HE, YOU SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS". 👉🔔👉 If you do not believe that JESUS CHRIST is the GOD who parted the Red Sea, the GOD who delivered Israel out of slavery under the reign of Pharaoh in Egypt, the GOD who appeared to Moses in the burning bush, you shall die in your sins ! If you do not believe that JESUS is the all-powerful, almighty God, (not the dimwit deity potrayed by heretical Trinitarians), you shall die in your sins ! 👈🔔👈 24 Now [P66 and א want “Now”] I said to you that you shall die in your errors. For if you do not believe [א and D insert “Me”] that I am, you shall die in your errors!” Sometimes, the concept of sin is too narrowly defined, and it is imagined that there is no sin unless one first has the law. This is because John wrote in his first epistle that “4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” So because only Israelites had the law, Christians often imagine that only Israelites can sin. But that is not true. What is true, is that since only Israelites had the law, only Israelites could bear guilt for sin, only Israelites could be held responsible and be punished for sin, and therefore only Israelites needed to be forgiven and cleansed of their sin, on account of which Christ came. To all others, forgiveness for sin is immaterial, since they were not party to the covenants or the promises made to Israel in the first place. Paul of Tarsus had written in Romans chapter 5 that “For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” That John also had this understanding is apparent in 1 John chapter 3 where he wrote “8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.” Of course, the beginning was before the law was given at Sinai, and the law certainly was not given to the devil. If men reject Christ, and are of those from below, they shall die in their sins, and they shall remain dead because there is no light in them, they are “clouds without water” and “twice dead”, as it is described in the epistle of Jude. But if men who were born from above do not accept Christ, as Paul wrote in 1 Timothy chapter 5, “24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.” For that reason, Christ spoke again in John chapter 12: “47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” Where Christ says “that I am”, the Greek phrase is ἐγώ εἰμι, and it may be interpreted “I am he”. This same phrase, which Christ used very frequently in reference to Himself, also appears very frequently in Messianic prophecies in the Septuagint. For example, it is the last phrase in Isaiah 41:4 where we read “I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.” It also appears in Isaiah 43:10 where we read “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he…” and again in verse 13 “Yea, before the day was I am he”, and again in verse 25 “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Again we may read in Isaiah chapter 48: “12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.” In Isaiah 51:12 where we read “I, even I, am he that comforteth you”, in the Septuagint the phrase is repeated twice at the beginning of the verse, ἐγώ εἰμι ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ παρακαλῶν σε. Those familiar with the Scriptures should have seen this correlation, and perhaps it vexed the Jews even more, since if they were familiar with Isaiah, they should have known what He meant when He said “if you do not believe that I am”, or more fully, “… I am He”. https://christogenea.org/podcasts/gospel-john-part-22-best-witness #trinitarians #trinity #trinitarian #triunegod #unitarian #falsegod #falsegospel #yahshuayahweh #jesusisyhvh #jesusisgod #romancatholicism #orthodoxchristianity #talmud #judaism #orthodoxjudaism Credit 📌: @brucebohn