Pizarro,Thanks for your comments on my post above. It is totally disgusting to me when I hear so many NEW AGERS and others saying that "OH, JESUS was just another ascended master or PROPHET EQUAL to Mohammed, Buddha, Ghandi, Krishna, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, the Hindu gods, and the rest of the leaders of the world's major religions". I will explain why this can NEVER BE TRUE!!!JESUS WAS AND IS GOD! He not only had GOD's blood -- Jesus was never sick a day in his life!!! Think about that! That is because he had IMMORTAL blood coursing through his veins! As a matter-of-fact, the ONLY WAY that they could KILL him was to remove his blood! And that is exactly what they did! Had Jesus NOT died on the cross, he would have lived forever in a body of flesh & blood because his blood was uncorrupted, unlike ADAM who had the stain of sin (and curse of death) on his flesh and blood---and everyone who came AFTER Adam, including all those false prophets just mentioned above! They all had Adam's blood! Jesus' blood was drained from his body by the horrible scourging he received and the piercing of his body by the nails as he hung on the cross and continued to bleed right up until the time he died. He bled when they stuck the thorns in his brow, he bled profusely from the horrible scourging he received, he bled all the way through the streets up to Calvary as he carried his cross, and bled when they pierced him with those awful nails, and he continued to bleed out as he suffered for six hours hanging between heaven and hell! (We'll never know what it cost to see our sins upon that cross - literally!)He literally gave his BLOOD FOR US---that immortal blood that PAID for us! The LIFE of the flesh is in the BLOOD! It is the BLOOD that makes an atonement for sin! Remember, when Jesus first saw Mary after he rose from the dead and he said "touch me not," it was because he had not yet ASCENDED to the Father. He ascended right after that and had the bowl of his BLOOD (that had been shed for us) to pour out on the heavenly altar where the Father's throne is at! Then, recall that he was telling doubting Thomas to TOUCH him later when he appeared to the disciples in the upper room! He told Thomas to put his finger in his side and to touch his hands. That's because he had already been up to the Throne and back and presented the holy blood as the ACCEPTABLE sacrifice and covering for OUR SINS on the ALTAR before God's Throne! And PUL-EEZE! Do not write and tell me it was not possible for Jesus to collect that blood that was shed for us! Don't ya think if God has SAVED all of our TEARS in a bottle, he sure didn't have any struggle saving the BLOOD of his own Son!!! That precious BLOOD of God did not disintegrate into the ground and disappear!Don't EVER be deluded into thinking that Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Krisha, Ghandi, the Hindu gods or ANYONE------ ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE is equal to Jesus because they are not and they can NEVER BE! They went to the GRAVE with Adam's blood in them! Jesus went to the grave and rose again! That is our precious Saviour - GOD himself who came in the flesh with BLOOD IN HIM - PURE, uncontaminated, spotless BLOOD to shed for our redemption! The first Adam sinned, and died. The 2nd Adam knew no sin and was able to pay for OUR sins as he died!That is why Jesus said we only come to the FATHER by HIM! Folks, there is NO OTHER WAY! I don't care what the big B.O. says about there being many ways to God; I don't care what Joel Osteen says about well, maybe there are other PATHS to God, and I don't care what Oprah Winnie Pooh says about there being many paths to the same god!!!! They are deceived and they are deceiving others and leading you to the WRONG god and the WRONG gospel! This is why our salvation is so precious and so GREAT! This is why our GOD is so GREAT! That is why there is NO OTHER WAY to be saved! All of history from the time the world was created is an amazing revelation of the LOVE OF GOD and the harmony of his great plan to redeem a fallen race revealed from cover-to-cover in the Bible from the time he rejects the "fig leaf" covering that Adam and Eve tried to substitute (their own works) and gave them the skin of animals (it takes BLOOD to save!) and including his amazing words when Abraham was about to sacrifice his only son - READ Genesis 22:8:"And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering;"And so he did! HE BECAME THE LAMB!!!! BEWARE of Bibles that CHANGED THAT VERSE, because several did! God was telling us through that fateful verse that HE HIMSELF was going to be the provision for our sins! They got the RAM then, which spared Abraham's only son, and WE got the LAMB now -- that spares US! Don't REJECT the LAMB! Don't trade him for the wrong god!Never let anyone try to tell you that Jesus is equal with any human being that ever walked this planet, OR with any half-human beings that may show up in the future claiming to be our "saviours"! They are setting you up, folks! The trap is being set so tight that there is NO ESCAPE unless you trust in JESUS and get out of here before all hell breaks loose - literally!!! If you get left behind, you will spend the rest of your life RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE! (Or if you get caught - getting your head chopped off unless you accept the MARK!) Choose this day whom you will serve. TODAY is the acceptable day of salvation! Tomorrow may be too late! And if you die tonight, during the night - it's already too late for you!Rene