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| Some Random Comments In a Christianity VS LDS Group. |
Seems this is always an issue to some mainstream Christianity. In their Christian World.
Anyway, some straight answers for a comments sake.
So, what's with Isaiah 43:10-13 all about? Here's the text below to know the context -
10 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: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
First, the Isaiah writing from Ch. 40-55 is a record of their exile from Babylon, in which, most of the israelites were under the influence of the Babylonian government and culture and religion. In his (Isaiah's) writings, God promise deliverance to the Israel in some future times. And yet there are still people who look for a god who could save them from bandage or a god they made for to worship.
And here is a hint -
Verse 11 - who was the saviour that was appointed to be a saviour of all men.
1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Titus 2:10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;