When all religions are tolerated, no believers
need die for their faith.
Not exact matches
Believe with all your heart that God send his only beggoten son Jesus on the cross to
die for your sins and was raise 3 days later
for our justification, if you believe that and ask him to forgive you and save you he will all you
need is to have
faith in him and ask him to save you.
I care
for the elderly and have also seen this when people
die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had
died before them, than any
need to be told God was there... people with
faith KNOW He is
So, I pray that as I grow in my
faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they
need to without compromising the fact that he
died for us to save us.
Edward Holloway, the founder of the
Faith Movement, who
died in March 1999, was amongst those deeper and subtler minds who early on recognised the passing of the «old synthesis» and the urgent
need for a development of theology and doctrine to meet the
needs of the times.
Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded
for there
faith isnt that enough reason
for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we
need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.
For me Christ
died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a
faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz
Funny how star gazing gives one awe and a sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we
die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my
faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room
for a «spirit body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still
need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...
if there was any proof, there would be no
need for faith... and proof would create a lot of believers, including myself — but alas there is none — unless you can prove me wrong and show the world your proof... but you neved addressed my post, do you admitt to the lunacy it takes to believe something that CA N'T be proven until you
die?
- people believe the Savior is named «Jesus» and remain unsaved... - that Jesus» name really isn't «Jesus» He was never called «Jesus» in His life... - most people don't know the meaning of the name «Jesus»... - you say a person does not
need to know ANYTHING about «Jesus» (e.g., that He is a man, that He is God, that He
died for sins and rose again, that He isn't a Mexican somewhere in Tiajuana)-- other than that this guy is the guarantor of eternal life by
faith alone... - you discount passages that say the lost are saved by the «preaching of the cross» (1Cor.
Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church
needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good
faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and
needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad
needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians
for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has
died, and the church is called on
for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?