Union with Christ (Books)
This is a list of books (for sale) on the doctrine of the believer’s union with Christ. For free online resources click here, the largest collection of free resources on union with Christ online.
"In Christ" is a phrase found nearly 90 times in Paul's letters. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). To be "in Christ" means to be in union with Him, one with him and incorporated in him, so that God sees us "in Christ" qualifying us for our inheritance. This concept is to be identified with Christ as the Second Adam.
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“…What remains in Christianity when the supernaturalism of the Bible is given up is not Christianity at all. Liberal Christianity and liberal Judaism, for example, turn out to be exactly alike. They have the same…fundamental skepticism about God, the same complacency about man, and the same mild admiration for the prophet of Nazareth. Tolerance has had its perfect work. The equilibrium has been restored. The consuming fire of Christianity has burned out, and we have merely the same feeble moralism that was in the world before Christianity took its rise.”
Anyone paying any attention has recently witnessed a new boldness from many of the most verbal online atheists. A large number who declare that they think the "virus" of religion should be "eradicated" and "outlawed". Many are using the same phrases and language as if they were all reading off of the same sheet. Look closely. This is the language of totalitarianism and control; the language of those who abhor freedom of conscience; the language we usually behold in the most virulent forms of fundamentalism ... but do not be troubled: this really should not come as a surprise to anyone who is a Christian. It is what we were frequently told by our Lord that we should expect in this world. The natural man is hostile and at enmity with God and His people... but REMEMBER we were no different then they. SUCH WERE MANY OF US. And apart from the grace of God intervening, we would likewise be hostile to God his people. So let us, in return, pray for and do good to those who intend to persecute us. Perhaps God will be merciful and grant them repentance. This is not a Manichean "us vs. them" world... it is much more complex than that. Skeptics and atheists are not really our enemy at all, but fellow sinners, just like us, who need love, prayer and rescuing from the coming wrath.