The Rest of the Christmas Story ,,,,,,,,,,,,

The rest of the Christmas Story took place many years later since the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Israel.

The Bible teaches us that God created MAN from dust of the Earth in His own Image - First the Body, Breadth into him His Spirit and Soul.

Genesis 2:7

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul."

GOD GAVE MAN THE ABSOLUTE FREE WILL TO LIVE ON THE EARTH, HAVE DOMINION ON THE EARTH AND REPLENISH IT. GENESIS 1:26

In layman's terms :

In our opinion 'Body' is a Physical residence for Man's Spirit and Soul and acts as a temporary housing to live on this Earth with a built in system to perform all functions to stay alive. Has a brain that is like the hardware of a computer that directs the bodies' NON-AUTOMATIC BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS DRIVEN BY THE SOUL. (Example of Automated Functions - Heart Pumping the Blood, Lung, Kidneys, Liver etc functions.)

'Spirit'. Once created is a 'Eternal Being (Man's True Entity)' that will exist for ever and ever. The Spirit of a man retains all the knowledge of that person's life time while the physical Brain itself remains in body after one dies. The Spirit of man  can be developed either with the truths about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and The Bible or of the Satanic World' Anti-God lies.

The Spirit of man can also be developed to Monitor and control the thoughts by WASHING ( AS TO FILTER) THEM WITH THE WORD OF GOD TO DECIDE TO ACCEPT OR REJECT THE INPUT  OF THE FLESH (SOUL) AND THE WORLD IN GENERAL.

'Soul' is the 'Emotion Generating Factory' and is fueled by the senses, belonging, speech, like smell, touch, emotions, moods etc.

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OUR UNDERSTANDING ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE IS THAT ONCE A PERSON DIES THE BODY REMAINS ON THE EARTH.

WHILE THE SPIRIT AND SOUL WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST FOREVER IN ONE OF TWO PLACES EITHER IN HEAVEN OR LAKE OF FIRE- HELL DEPENDING ON WHAT DECISION EACH PERSON MAKES WITH THEIR FREE WILL REGARDING ACCEPTING JESUS OR NOT.

Over the ages and during all the past civilizations no one specifically understood what that exactly meant.

Not even until and during the times of Jesus until one of the leaders of the local Synagogue came to Jesus in the night to ask him .......

John 3:1-21  (NKJV -RED LETTER EDITION - JESUS' QUOTES IN RED)

1. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3. Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4. Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5. Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9. Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10. Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
11. Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
12. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13. No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15. That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY.

Ephesians 2:8-9   (NKJV)                                                                                                                                                             ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,                                                                                                                                                                             ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should boast.

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1 John 2   (NKJV)                                                                                                                                                      ¹ My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.                                                                                  ² And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

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