The way of the salvation

(6) The way of the salvation In the kingdom of God, many angels rebelled against God because they wanted to be like God. God took their clothes off and put them into clay. 『And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.』(Jude1:6) Man (Adam) was born in the world. God put Adam into the garden of Eden, and made Eve his wife. They wanted to be like God and did not shake off the temptations of Satan. They ate the fruit of the tree to know good and evil, and they were driven out again to the world. God killed the sheep, made leather clothes, gave them, and promised them the seed in the future.『And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.』(Genesis 3:15) But nobody believed except Noah and his family of seven. God judges every human being by water. Later, God chose Abraham and made a covenant on seed's promise. This is circumcision. Circumcision is a ceremony to cut the body, this is a promise of the seed. So God made the people believe in the seed(Christ) that come to world in the future. But, no one believed Jesus, Son of God. The disciples also ran away from the cross. God will save those who come into Jesus Christ to be died on the cross. The salvation is the faith to take off the bark of the flesh from the parents, to obtain the seed of heaven. Those who want to become like God by themselves refuse this. They find pleasure in the world and take on the pleasures of the body.『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.』 (Romans 6:4) Only when you are born again, you are saved from God.

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