The assertion that believers are brainwashed, is made
about believers by atheist, only after believers open their mouths and prove themselves worthy of the accusation.
Not exact matches
For true
believers, it's not just
about the price of a single investment, but instead a system that they believe could circumvent traditional governments
by creating a decentralized, global financial system that no single entity oversees.
What I meant
by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing
about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual
believers into some sort of barrel.
I am not defined
by such labels as atheist or
believer, they are just possible words to describe some very miniscule part of what I happen to think
about a very basic level of the topic.
Gospels (the «good news»...
by definition self - admitted biased materials) are statements of beliefs for
believers about what they already believe.
This testimony
about Jesus as only a son of David (2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 NIV) who was punished
by God with the floggings of men for claiming to be god thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible
by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent
by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or
believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made
by the apostle John.
If we are true
believers of God and we have to ensure that what we have been believing has been the Truth as ordained
by God and have been doing good we will see at the time of death Heaven the place we are going to, So when we see heaven our worldly posessions like family, wealth etc go into oblivion and we are not concerned the least
about them since what we are now going into will dazzle us so much.
Jesus is just a belief shared
by a fraction of the world's population, and there are thousands of conflicting opinions
about him even amongst his strongest
believers.
What you express
about me and «
believers» is usually not backed
by objective evidence.
One thing
about all these books, including the bible is that someone is getting rich
by printing them and everything is of the fanatatic
believer ignorance.
Could it be because
about 80 % of all abortions in the USA are had
by believers?
All I see are a lot of
believers making a lot of claims — often contradictory — unsupported
by any evidence
about God and his teachings.
I'm curious
about the
believers of conditional security, since conditional security means grace plus works, and
by Romans 11:6 clearly says Grace plus works is no longer grace.
I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the
believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn
by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony
about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray
about them..
Like the third soil the cares of the world consume this
BELIEVER and what he is worried
about, concerned with and concentrating on gets wiped out
by the storms.
They needed to be among the assembly yesterday of
about 3000
believers in three different services that heard the message of the cross given and the simple message of the gift of eternal life
by believing in the one that was nailed to the cross for our sins.
Suggestions to Christian readers: When reading
about another faith, do not read books written
by Christians, read the ones written
by believers themselves.
In writing to them, John encourages these
believers to rely upon their new birth in God for teaching, instruction
about righteousness, abiding in faithfulness, and remembering that Jesus is the Christ, and that
by Him, they have life in His name.
«full of BS organized religion is» the book of 1st Timothy Chapter one tells us
about how Satan was trying to inflitrate the church through devil following people, and possible
believers led astray
by the devil.
Only azzhole mentally ill delusional
believers get worked up
about it, conveniently ignoring the fact that 75 + % of all abortions in the USA are had
by believers.
Those John is talking
about in the passage you then quote are the ones who,
by virtue of not believing Jesus actually came, are not
believers, but rather ones who are specifically trying to come into the group and deny the incarnation of Christ.
By, we, I assume she is talking
about believers in a religion or in one of the many gods.
Yet when religions talk
about alternate states of being and planes of existence, they are ridiculed
by believers in «science.»
Updike as a
believer was saved
by his reading of Barth, since he looked to him for «confirmation of the bad news
about the human situation vis - à - vis ultimate reassurance.»
I've been a
believer for a while, but lately I've been really bothered
by thinking
about what happens to people who never got a chance to hear
about Jesus before they died.
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought
about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every
believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not
about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived
by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is
about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.
Speaking to the Corinthian
believers as he was, Paul is inviting them to not seek to learn
about God
by their reason and emotions alone, but through the Spirit of God which was in them.
Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking
about only those
believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized
by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking
about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.
A
believer could act like an atheist, I suppose, but what would he learn
about atheists that he could not get
by just reading some atheist literature or talking to some atheists?
I have seen this thrown out before
by believers but what they don't seem to understand
about «feelings» like love and even pain, is that it's subjective.
As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus)
believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs»
about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts
by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.
Furthermore, this truth was communicated to the first
believers by visions, or in some other fashion, so that they have a surety
about it proper for their time and place.
For many
believers in this group, it is
about finding a righteous (and humane) path to oneness with their god and for non-
believers (like myself) it is
about the defense of certain freedoms and a right to live our lives unhampered
by the beliefs of others while still maintaining those common values that are important to the progress and betterment of mankind.
Just as
believers can, all
by themselves with no changes to any existing laws, reduce abortions
by about 70 %, they can also improve their image if their members would simply comply with their cult's beliefs.
-- contained the seeds of its destruction in the very phrasing: Only
by presupposing a community of language
believers, Wittgenstein argued, could this question
about radical oneness make sense.»
2) Bringing
about Christ as heavenly high priest in order to sanctify the
believer by announcing God's name of Father in the context of the Christian todi, i.e., the Eucharist.
Bob... I think I am as unconvinced as you are
about the veracity of claims that are made
by some
believers as to what God is doing or
about to do in their lives, but I've come to think that religion or the search for meaning is much larger than any particular expression of any one tradition.
The idea that non
believers have nothing to care
about, nothing to live for and no reason to treat their fellow humans decently is a lie perpetrated
by those who wish to keep people in bondage to the myth of a loving, yet just deity.
The words in the bible were written
by believers about what they believed.
There are millions of ideas and philosophies
about life with all it's many facets which are good but there is only One Truth and as then as is now The Truth is being killed
by every non
believer in the whole world.
Although much can be done to refute certain evolutionary beliefs
by the disciplined use of reasoning and scientific research,
believers also have a duty to be clear
about the limits that are set «from above.»
that is the word... if we all took on the importance of our own relationship with God and actually did something
about it
by steping outside of the little boxes that we make or the walls that have been built up between us, we could all take off the plastic masks and realize that most of the important work for a Christian is what secretly goes on in the relationship between the
believer and God... a lot of the pretence and lies would not be able to survive the truth that would be sweeping through the minds and hearts of
believers.
Most
believers come to moments like this, where they either have to face the reality that the Bible is indeed flawed, or force themselves to be reas.sured
by defences so ridiculous that they must be embarras.sing to even think
about.
Questions regarding sexual ethics are
by definition questions
about the relationship of
believers with God.
Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and
by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all
about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non
believers and even ourselves definitely its not
about sin but its all
about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz
You are right
about being the Children of Israel and of Ismael out of which came the Jews and the non Jews who you reffered here to
by Arabs... The tale of the Books that there will be wars and finally at Jerusalem between two groups consisting of «
Believers» who would recognize and believe in Jesus when he returns they are of «Jews / Christians / Muslims» and the second group are the «Non
Believers» who wouldn't recognize or believe in Jesus when he returns they are of «Jews / Christians / Muslims»....
In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only describe as the systematic usurpation of ultimate political power
by the American judiciary» a usurpation that compels evangelical Christians and, indeed, all
believers to ask sobering questions
about the....
Honestly, if atheists really think they're going to pursuade
believers to stop believing
by putting up such silly messages on billboards, they are sadly mistaken and obviously know nothing
about what it means to have faith in God.
Whenever I talk
about our unity with all others, someone has to correct me
by pointing out that their particular idea of Jesus demands a special and exclusive understanding that attracts a certain kind of
believer and disciple.
Just another example of christian hypocrisy — yap in public
about being oppressed and behave differently in private, much like with abortion (where 70 + % of abortions in the USA are had
by believers).