What would
Jesus do with the thing, park it in the corner for a reminder of the cruelty of his creations?
Not exact matches
Jesus would have been hanging out
with gay people and those who have had abortions while the Pharisees asked: how can he
do such a
thing?
At 62, I have already lived most of my life and I don't quite care about heaven or Hell but I
do care about the people
with whom I share the earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick
with the
Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.
Why
do all those
things associate
Jesus with sport as though that's important?
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to
do and say what we want, even as it was
with me: It's one
thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said;
with my heart I want to
do what is right, but my flesh
does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right
with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to
do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has
done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed
Jesus:
Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one
with Him, even as
Jesus is
with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in
Jesus Name Alexandria
BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is)
with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how
do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other
things that are clearly outlined by
Jesus» own words as grievous.
The Gospel ends
with the comment that
Jesus did many other
things that the author
did not mention as
doing so would be too great a task.
It is amazing how we can say good or bad
things regarding
Jesus and Christianity, and I will never judge anyone whatever their beliefs are or aren't, but please before trashing Christianity
do your homework first, that is study the Bible and I can pretty much guarantee after you
do that you will be filled
with love and kindness.
all
things were created by nothing
with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in
Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»
You are not
doing one good
thing by embarrassing
Jesus and God
with your long - winded, nasty diatribes.
next
thing they'll be
doing is following
Jesus with the whole wilting trees thingy because their branches bare too much fruit.
I don't agree
with everything he writes but one
thing that makes a lot of sense is that the Gospel of Prosperity puts the buck first, which is fundamentally at odds
with the teachings of
Jesus.
Do you believe God and
Jesus live on adjoining planets and when an LDS man (who has obeyed the church and its leaders) dies, he gets his own planet to rule equal in all
things with your God.
The way this works out for me is that when I don't believe
Jesus is enough, I try to fill the void
with the approval of others, or by comfort in material
things, or by power over others, or by controlling others.
And who looks and search for the
thing gets it but
does not come alone
with out effort... Some have reached levels
with their knowledge and names of God to make
thing happen just as
Jesus was able to
do but they are not sorcerers although might have got treated as ones.
I respect your experience but it is still anecdotal and limited — it is not definitive hence my suggestion that you paint
with a narrower brush lest you
do the very
thing that you are guarding against... You resist those who criticize «other ways of following
Jesus» while
doing a bit of the same to those who see value in the institution as a spiritual reality even if not an ideal one...
It tells you that no matter how many mistakes you make, how many bad
things you
do you can avoid any and all eternal consequences for this simply by believing something,
with no penalties, no retribution, no sacrifices, nothing; just believe in
Jesus and all is forgiven.
If you feel like God is telling you to leave, before
doing that, there are always opportunities to, as you said, to
do things like «personally loving our neighbors, hanging out
with «sinners,» spending time
with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like
Jesus.»
Part of the shocking revelation that
Jesus brought us is that God doesn't just want us to go to a happy, peaceful place, but that he's inviting us to enter into a familial relationship
with Him and as His children we will live
with Him,
do things with Him and and work
with Him (and consequentially each other, forming a body that is One).
Sorry my delusional friend, but if 40 years of that wasn't enough to come up
with any evidence or for
Jesus to «touch» me or some such
thing then obviously God doesn't care if I believe in him or not, so why should I care?
Great post, and the really disproportionate
thing about it is this is all
done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish
Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached
with the same force and conviction as tithing?
Though we may not always understand why and how sin and suffering enters into God's world, one
thing we can know through the crucifixion of
Jesus is that God
does not send sin and suffering, but rather, is a victim of it along
with us.
I'm confused it says they will be gossips conceited unholy haters of good without love self love people in the end times to stay away not even to receive them not even pray for them is that blasphemy then it says they hold firm to a godliness but deny its power but I thought blasphemy they don't hold firm to any godliness but are not drawn by the spirit at all to wan na ask forgiveness even it says god is just and will forgive why I wish he would forgive all
things his children suffer over that can't change need to also it says if u can say
Jesus is lord the holy spirit is
with u right or u couldn't even say those words please someone help I've been suffering
If you end up at unbelief it is you who will cast off salvation /
JESUS as Esau
did (He cast off his inheritance) The «work» of a Christian begins
with Faith to recieve Christ, maintaining faith (
done by allowing the santification process, walking on all the warnings of the scriptures of
things to avoid and
things to add to faith).
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed
with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to
do bad
things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally
do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many
things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect
with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting
with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «
JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to
do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully
with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
I'm not sure where I'm going
with this, but the point I'm trying to make is that the drugs, or «medicine», really only blind you to the marvelous
things Jesus can
do in your life if you only believe whole heartedly.
We have become so familiar
with the story that we
do not see the crucifixion of
Jesus for the evil
thing it really was.
If you want to reach our culture for
Jesus, the best (and most biblical)
thing you can
do is show people
Jesus and invite them to follow
Jesus with you.
It says in 1john 3:8 whoever sins belongs to the devil and
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil which was sin.Think about this, right or wrong
things is not sin, sin is a nature that you were born
with, but when you confessed your sins he forgave you, and you became a new creature, old
things have passed away and now you are a new person; and a new person is not the same, if you can still sin after being born again then what
did he take away, don't you know that his blood is so powerful that you don't have to worry about sinning because it has been destroyed, he took it away.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ
Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality
with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
I could much more easily go
with «Christian» as «follower of Christ» but... the term is so loaded, and everyone thinks you mean one of the other three versions of what «Christian» is, and besides, while there is a lot about
Jesus that works for me, there is some that doesn't and I believe it is likely stuff inserted in after the fact to make
things fit, but... * shrugs *... then that is speculation as well.
So while one Gospel has
Jesus saying one
thing, and another Gospel has Him saying something similar but
with different wording, this
does not mean that there is a contradiction in what
Jesus said.
He is the one of whom the apostle Paul wrote, «Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ
Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality
with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
2 Thessalonians 1:6 - 8 since it is a righteous
thing with God to repay
with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest
with us when the Lord
Jesus is revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who
do not know God, and on those who
do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Yea verily, I as infallible Pope, hereby excommunicate Chuckles forever from the purgatory of raving nincompo < b?ops where he was infallibly put by mistake, which was a divinely - inspired infallible mistake, much like
Jesus» prophecy that the Kingdom of God would come down on the Earth
with a cool laser light show and dancing poodles and other
things that didn't happen within the lifetimes of his audience.
However Käsemann1 also drew the inference from his own divergent position: «
Jesus did not come to proclaim general religious and moral truths, but rather to say how
things stand
with the kingdom that has dawned, namely that God has drawn near man in grace and requirement.
The servant image was never more clear than in the hymn to Christ in Philippians, where it is said of
Jesus that he, «though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality
with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.
After the
things done or said in the temple, the Gospels proceed
with what
Jesus said one day when he left the holy place to spend the night on the Mount of Olives (Mk 13:1 - 4; Mt 24:1 - 3; Lk 21:5 - 7).
I believe by faith that my life will be tested
with fire and only the
things I
did in
Jesus will remain.
none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like
jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier
with those who don't value the material
things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven
with Gods happiness
In that sense, Francis of Assisi's life as a mendicant embodied in evangelical witness the truth of the Christological hymn in Philippians and its celebration of «Christ
Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality
with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important
thing your life because
with him you would not be period so to say that
Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all
do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian
I think
Jesus is saying that we are BURDENED
WITH FREEDOM, life is a constant decision, and thus it is always a «temptation» to choose the wrong
thing or to believe that we have ever perfectly
done the «right»
thing.
I hope it can work for me since I don't want to live another year like that even I have prayed for three years about this problem
with all the prayer knowledge I have in the past.Although there are still many
things I don't understand about my situation, I will keep on trusting my Lord that he will make everything works out for good.If anyone can see my reply, please pray to
Jesus and ask Him to has more mercy on me.
The problem many «Christians» had
with this shows that they don't understand the words of
Jesus when He said to His disciples, at the time they were living, in the circumstances surounding them, «Truly, I say to You, this generation shall by no means pass till all these
things take place».
The sad
thing is, regardless of how «special» you think
Jesus was, most of the weirdness of Catholicism has very little to
do with him or his teachings.
They can not
do that
with the words of
Jesus cause he was not about any of those
things.
I can't yet share what I think about these texts, but one
thing I know for sure: We will never understand these troubling texts of Scripture, and we will never understand God, and we will never understand ourselves, unless and until we begin
with the realization that
Jesus does not drown babies.
janed While I agree
with you in the most part I don't think you are as read as you say or don't really understand the demonic
things that
Jesus talked about.
Others are a little less extreme, and come up
with a list of
things that
Jesus did which we must
do also.