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The holy scriptures teach the faithful how to live and what is true as well as warning about what is false and harmful. They teach the same lesson set forth in the garden of Eden in the form of two trees. The first is the tree of Life and it was set in the centre of the garden. The other was also in the centre, nearby, and it was called the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. The first offered life the second a warning. The second was a kind of physical lesson in visible living form it could grant knowledge but in doing so it also brought corruption and death. Once its fruit was eaten the whole of creation was enslaved to corruption and eventual dissolution in death.
The holy scriptures teach about these things and call for the faithful to be one body in one Spirit, just as they were called to the one hope that belongs to their call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of them all, who is above all and through all and in all. [SUP]Ephesians 4:4-6[/SUP] The promise is made in union with Jesus who gives to the faithful what they need to serve one another and to teach those outside so that some may be saved from the coming condemnation of wickedness. Grace is given to each of the faithful according to the measure of Christ's gift. [SUP]Ephesians 4:7[/SUP]
The gifts that Jesus gives are not meant for selfish uses nor to make one appear grand and great to those around so that one may be famous and counted as holy because of the great gifts one has. No, that would be destructive of the body of Christ. So these gifts are given for service to and for others. And Jesus' gifts are that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the faithful for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until they all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that they may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by the wicked's craftiness in deceitful wiles. [SUP]Ephesians 4:11-14[/SUP] Instead the faithful speak the truth in love, they are to grow up in every way into Jesus who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and builds itself up in love. [SUP]Ephesians 4:15-16[/SUP]
The holy scriptures teach about these things and call for the faithful to be one body in one Spirit, just as they were called to the one hope that belongs to their call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of them all, who is above all and through all and in all. [SUP]Ephesians 4:4-6[/SUP] The promise is made in union with Jesus who gives to the faithful what they need to serve one another and to teach those outside so that some may be saved from the coming condemnation of wickedness. Grace is given to each of the faithful according to the measure of Christ's gift. [SUP]Ephesians 4:7[/SUP]
The gifts that Jesus gives are not meant for selfish uses nor to make one appear grand and great to those around so that one may be famous and counted as holy because of the great gifts one has. No, that would be destructive of the body of Christ. So these gifts are given for service to and for others. And Jesus' gifts are that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the faithful for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until they all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that they may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by the wicked's craftiness in deceitful wiles. [SUP]Ephesians 4:11-14[/SUP] Instead the faithful speak the truth in love, they are to grow up in every way into Jesus who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and builds itself up in love. [SUP]Ephesians 4:15-16[/SUP]
