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Can you preach about Jesus your whole life and still not know Him? Dr. Abel Damina points to the two disciples on the Emmaus road, who explained Jesus to Jesus without recognizing Him. Starting there, he argues that every book from Genesis to Malachi arrives at one person: "The Bible is one book that carries one message concerning one character." In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, Dr. Damina begins a new series on the promises of God. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Did Paul give up rights he explicitly said were his to claim? Dr. Abel Damina points to 1 Corinthians 9, where Paul lists freedoms available to him as an apostle — marriage, financial support — and then declares, "I have used none of these things... lest I make my brother to offend." Dr. Damina argues this models a "higher law" than mere personal liberty: using knowledge to serve others rather than to indulge oneself. This episode of Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion traces how Paul's personal example in chapters 8 through 11 builds toward a single, unified teaching on love. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Does Hebrews 6's warning about "falling away" actually threaten a believer's salvation? Dr. Abel Damina argues the opposite: since the passage says a fallen-away person would "crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh," and Christ's one sacrifice makes a second crucifixion literally impossible, the passage proves the reverse — a believer in Christ cannot fall away. "It's impossible for a man in Christ to lose salvation," he says, calling this "the scripture that guarantees eternal salvation." In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, Dr. Damina works through one of the New Testament's most-debated warning passages to argue it actually anchors assurance rather than threatening it. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Did Moses ever actually say God would "rain bread from heaven" as validation of a ritual? Dr. Abel Damina points out that in John 6, Jesus directly corrected that assumption: "Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven." He argues the manna was only ever meant to point toward Christ — "they ate the bread and left the bread" — and that clinging to the sign instead of its meaning is exactly what modern attachment to religious elements repeats. In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, Dr. Damina traces this pattern from Exodus through John 6 to argue physical ritual has always been a communication device, never the substance. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

They ate manna from heaven, drank from a supernatural rock, and were baptized "unto Moses" in the cloud and sea — so why were most of them destroyed in the wilderness? Dr. Abel Damina walks through 1 Corinthians 10 to show that miraculous participation in ritual never equaled salvation for ancient Israel: "if those things were salvation, they wouldn't have been overthrown." The real issue, he argues, was unbelief — missing the message of Christ hidden behind the elements while still going through the motions. This episode of Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion uses this sobering Old Testament warning to argue that ritual participation today carries the same risk. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Did Jesus actually institute something new at the table in Luke 22, or was He doing something else entirely? Dr. Abel Damina argues Jesus "didn't change anything" in the existing Passover protocol — He simply identified Himself as its long-standing substance: "this is how it has always been from Exodus 12... he just maintained the existing protocol." This episode of Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion traces that argument through to its conclusion: once the substance (Christ) has arrived, the shadow (the ritual) has nothing left to point toward. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Why does Dr. Abel Damina call the New Testament "a testament of revelation" rather than ritual? He points out that Paul's prayers for every church — Ephesus, Colossae, Philippi — center on one request: "that ye may know," never on any physical practice believers are meant to perform. Tying this to Jesus's own words in Matthew 15 — "whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly... it doesn't go to the spirit" — he argues nothing eaten or drunk can affect a person spiritually; only words can. In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, Dr. Damina closes his extended Passover series by explaining what it actually means to "partake" of Christ now. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

What does it mean to "eat and drink" Christ's body and blood today, according to Dr. Abel Damina? Not a physical ritual, he argues, but a confession: "in spiritual terminology, to eat and drink often is to speak." Since believers are themselves the "one bread" of 1 Corinthians 10, and Christ is the fulfilled substance behind every Old Testament shadow, Dr. Damina teaches that declaring aloud what Christ has already done is how the New Testament believer actually "partakes." This episode of Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion closes out an extended teaching series on the Passover with a practical redefinition of what communion means now. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111

Why did Jesus have to die "spirit, soul, and body"? Dr. Abel Damina teaches that redemption had to be total because man himself is spirit, soul, and body — and that Jesus's physical body only became subject to death and sickness the moment He "was made sin," just as Adam's body was never naturally mortal until the fall. "It was not the beatings of the soldiers that killed Jesus," he explains, "it was the act of redemption." In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, Dr. Damina traces what actually happened to Christ's body, soul, and spirit between the cross and the resurrection. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1822/29?v=20251111