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Wow!! Overwhelming responses! Just got home from work and I'm on Page 3!
Anyways, I'd like to reiterate that coming on this thread does nothing for my ego or my self esteem. It's simply to testify that I have witnessed the Love and power of Jesus Christ in my life and that the only way you can experience what I have is to let down your guard a bit, take down the walls, lose the baggage or whatever you want to call it- basically open your heart to all that God has for you. You can teach Satanism with the words that are written in the Bible but that doesn't mean you should worship Satan. God is Love. The Bible says that i have experienced it for myself through faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. I have so much to say but it would take hours upon hours to say it all. But even the fiercest God-hater can receive the gift of salvation that comes through Jesus according to the Word. Christ's blood was not shed in vain. This is the heart of God: if you were the only one to ever have sinned, Christ would've still gone to the cross just for you. But since it's for us all, it would be a shame to miss. |
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3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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I really WOULD like to know the answer to that one, although I'm sure the answer will, ironically, be very zen. :yinyang |
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Believe the way you want, and be happy about it. Let others do the same. Unless you want to foster hatred. Isn't there something about that in the bible? I think there is. |
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are you implying that I'm a zealot who wont leave you alone? |
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http://www.weeklyfilm.com/images/Moviepics/jules.gif "Does he LOOK... like a BITCH?" |
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"man, those are some tasty burgers! Damn"
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So far, I havent even given you my opinion about Chrstianity in general. I have only told you either what the Bible says or about experiences I've had so anyone feels condemned then maybe it's the the Holy Spirit speaking to you. And feeling condemned, or judged, is not the end of all things. It's only the beginning. It's at this point that one may ask themself "Why should I change?" The answer to this maybe best left between you and God. After all, I am no better than anyone else here.
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Who's up for beer, fallen women and a nice round of pool? |
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How about we just staple another guy to a stick and call it a day? Who would have thought such a thing would create pure profit under the guise of religeon. I am sure it can be done a couple more times and the moneymaking opportunities are awesome needless to say. |
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If you have truly acheived some sort of special enlightenment, some new circle of acolyte wisdom, and are well on your way to your 1000 virgins or whatever your deity promises is all very nice. Congratulations. Aside from some reflex action trained into me by society to give superficial plaudits to people for acheiving mediocre goals, I really honestly couldn't give a rats ass... except as a foil for some philosophical debate, which has managed to go on quite despite your incessant cut-and-pastery. Do these observations provoke any questions from YOU? |
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Since I had that dream my life has changed in many ways. I feel a burden in my heart a burden for the poor and sick and have begun doing things to help in order to show them an example in hopes that they may receive Christ. But why is it only the ones who are in the gutter who ask God for help? When all God's blessings are for anyone who receives Him no matter what your physical condition and no matter how much how or how little money you already have and no matter how unsuccessful or successful you may be.
You see, many of you here have a certain measure of success already. So why would I come here and tell you that God can make you successful in life. (Or maybe I shouldn't be so presumptuous) All of you eat food everyday so why would I try to feed you and tell you it's a blessing from God? The only service I can think to offer you is the Words of God from the Bible telling you how through Jesus you can be saved. The Bible says that there is wealth that comes from the Lord and it brings no sorrow with it. I'm of the few that does not believe that Jesus was poor in any way. |
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It's the hypocrisy that grates. The demand to turn off all rational thought and throw yourself headlong into a dogma based on a book that has gone through countless revisions by political figures, adjusting and rewriting and retranslating based on whatever interpretation would suit their particular ends, then touted as the one true and only word of the almighty direct from the presses. A book tainted with the blood of countless innocents across the millenia, yet you would have us throw ourselves prostate before its prose as the ultimate expression of our faith and devotion to an inscrutible god. "Ye shall know them by their fruits." (Matt 7:16) Indeed, I am all too familiar with the works of those professing love with the book in one hand, and a rod in the other to scourge the unbelievers. You come to us speaking of a dream, yet the book you profess itself urges us to beware exactly those of you who would draw us in; "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." (Mattew 7:15) No sir. Your words do not inspire, they seethe. Behind them is a motivation not being revealed by you, and that motivation seeps through the lines of coldly quoted scripture like venom dripping from an adder's tooth. If my relationship with Jesus was so personal, so special as you claim yours to be, I would not tarnish it so by heaping a portion of it on every casual observer. Your insistance on doing so belies the existance of your unspoken hidden urges... but not thier manefestation. Do you perhaps imagine yourself a great prophet, bringing salvation to the unwashed masses rooted in the carnal and mundane, diligently (if fruitlessly) hunting for the wayward sheep to be tended? Do you fancy being canonized St. Truethrust, patron of the wanton, washed and reborn? Are you driven to prove your loyalty and obedience by bringing fresh grist for your mill? Or are you just a cynical little troll? |
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Amen, Rapture. Amen.
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