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But yes, people are less like Christ than ever, as many scriptures read that near the end, weakness will reign in the church, and yes, we have a decaying Church in the sense that most Christians today as very weak, spiritually. Yes, Christ is building His church - in numbers, from what I see, but not in spiritual strength.
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Like having "no pure Bible today", you also have a weakening Church before the return of Christ. I disagree on both views (which are related).
I already quoted concerning the Laodicean prophecy, that there are true believers at that time. Just because there may be large numbers of weak, compromised, apostate and rejected-by-Christ "Christians" does not reflect truly upon the work of God.
My view of Ephesians 4:13 must be opposite to yours, "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ".
And when it comes to the Scripture perfection, and the claim that "God has not kept His Word on earth", it appears that you do not believe 1 Peter 1:21, 23, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. ... But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." The Bible right now that gets people born again upon Earth is supposed to be incorruptible. You are arguing for only corrupt manifestations of His Word today upon the Earth.
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I suggest that God has not kept His Word on earth
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What an unjust and weak God would not keep His Word, and would fail to provide it for His people at the end! This would be saying that antichrist and error are greater than the work of God in history. The Pagan Roman Empire didn’t stop Him, but end time apostasy did?!
Jesus said, “and they have kept thy word.” (John 17:6b). How can we obey the Word if it is not fully present? James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” If we do not have the whole law, then how can we be sure that anyone can be saved?
God puts the Word into the hearts of people, but that internal spiritual form must also exist in external form: “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people” (Heb. 8:10). “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them” (Heb. 10:16). Where are the exact laws that a person might read them? where is the writing of the covenant in physical form?