Christian Discussion
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago
0 - Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Amen.
The sun and the Son has risen for another day!
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Christianity came from Judaism and Judaism is a branch of Vedic Tradition and the Vedic tradition came from the Aryans, the Ayrans who are now Muslims.
It's true. So, you can slice and dice and you'll be slice and dicing no one but yourself.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Though I agree with you, its not quite in the way you think. the measure of common sense is relative to knowledge.
common sense differs from group field to group field.
What you are saying actually is you do not want to go past your world view. You do not want to grow and just believe whatever you believe right now.
Your life will change, and when it does it will demand for you to go deeper in your understanding of the "spirit". Because at the level you are at right now, you are calling upon experiences that will challenge it.
We are Human and G-d is not. this requires you understand what human is atleast... because no matter how hard you try, you will never never understand what G-d is and what G-d is not, you can only understand yourself and in so doing see what G-d is in relation to you.
you know what i meant.
Many I know refer to light as some faux phantom or good deeds emulation of good deeds, when it literally means light itself.
explaining in laymans turns isn't easy for me.
Oh that. Like in that metaphorical way. Light as divine knowledge.
(and that curious fact that only knowledge (info) can travel at the speed of "light" and the information age is actually based on a technology of pairs of blinking lights)
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Thats not what I do. As for meditation, that's just like praying the rosary or praying. Inviting spirits assumes that you believe these spirits as you put them have any power over you.
What i do is help people find their calling in life and empower them to be creative. I also actually help people help themselves.
and flat on your face is a form of meditation. the only difference between you and me is this. i know what I don't know and know what i know.
anyway, brenda. the forum is there for discussions because it is good to talk about things that interest you. It is not in anyway designed to convince you to change. you are just a stage I am dancing on.hmmm...
well, hey, I hereby request that you never ever ever wear spiked heels when you're dancin' on me, ya hear?!
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Amen.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Brenda - it is very rude to keep resurrecting this dead thread to promote your pro-divorce agenda.
There was no flood. Sorry for your loss.
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
Some will claim openly to being accountable, but as you know it isn't any of us who know your mind, Brenda, and the things you've done. If you believe in your god, then you know who knows you best.
Do you entertain the concept of forgiveness when you damn the homosexuals or does forgiveness only apply to you?
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
So you do have a pro-divorce agenda then.
Yes - protesting to make it illegal for other people to do something you have done sounds about right.You could always make the law "retroactive" ya know.
Heck, if you'd make it go all the way back to 1985, it would clear the whole thing up! My divorce would be totally invalidated and non-existent, and I'd be a faithful married woman dealing with a cheating husband.
Come on Mark, perform the miracle!
Of course, that was pre-gay-marriage days too, so.....the wimpy laws that have allowed gay "marriage" in some States would have to be dealt with retroactively too; but it should be easier than the anti-divorce laws, because they wouldn't have to go back as far.
I like this agenda! Shall we collaborate on it?
I see. So - what you are saying is that you should not be held accountable for your inability to satisfy your husband? And it was not your responsibility to make sure he was satiated? And when Sarai bore Abram no child - it was OK that he took another. But not when you fail to do the Lord's bidding?
You are still promoting your pro-divorce agenda, I see. Divorce is OK here Jesus. But not gay marriage.
Well - good for you. I hope everyone breaks their word to god and "'till death us do part" is replaced with "'till I cannot satisfy you any more".
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Amen!
Glad you came in.
Our shield....yes He is! Thanks for posting that.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
I've done the research myself, Brenda, I always do that regardless of what believers claim about their scriptures. And, while I did in fact admit to Jeff that there were indeed "loopholes" to the divorce and adultery laws in scriptures, one way or another, it still does not give you the right to criticize others simply because you believe everything is all right now and you'll be saved.
It's like the reformed smoker, driving other smokers insane with preaching the word of his new found health and the debauchery of their addiction.
You broke your gods law, Brenda. It IS the same thing.
Forgiveness for you but NOT for homosexuals, Brenda? That is what you've actually stressed repeatedly.
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
SirDent, an excellent reference, thank you. It clearly describes in words that which every Christian will accept as the god given truth.
The thing is though, and maybe that's more of what has a bee in the pious bonnet, perhaps the real reason for such unforgiveness is that Christians believe homosexuals DO know what they're doing.
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
I hate spam bots!!!
Edit: Way to go HubTeam
- Twenty One Daysposted 15 years ago0
James, James...you're only talking to me
the frequency is above forum range.
right, but again, this is pseudo talk, scripted memorization.
i don't mean to press in, but can you (the plural) tell me exactly your daily expression of those three points i made, without quoting script or pseudo refreshment? not in the self serving mode of: well I just...but actual events.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
And Amen
Artin 2010,
Michael Adams 1959,
and
2besure,
and
Aguasilver!
and any other born-again child of God who's telling the Truth of God's word.
((I'm trying to catch up on Amen's! haha
I love sitting in the "Amen Corner" hearing the Word! Such a Blessing!))Awesome! I can feel the excitement in your "voice"!
And being baptized brings such a Blessing, yes!
I'll tell you something else----it is a Blessing to see or hear of a man showing true emotion in the pulpit. My father was a preacher who wasn't ashamed to show the emotions that God brought out in him, and it's an awesome thing that stirs the heartstrings of many people to draw them to the Lord as well.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
- The Penmanposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Twenty One Daysposted 15 years ago0
Indeed we do.
And that purpose starts being fulfilled after we accept Christ into our lives and start walking with Him.
Why would anyone really ask what the fundamentals are?
And I'm gonna answer it the way I see it-----they ask because they're unsure.
And one reason they're unsure is that modern man has tried (and succeeded in many areas) to blur the lines between right and wrong, in ALL our circles.
I'm reminded vividly of this as I just read a thread where the discussion is how an athiest should deal with the subject of a person of faith's questions at death! I'm sorry, but I can't help but find that at once both hilarious and ridiculous! The words "morals" and "right" and "wrong" are being dropped into a barrel and whoever picks 'em up is considered to be the owner of those values or non-values (they're never called "non-values", though, 'cause that would be so very intolerant.
What I'm trying to tell you, Jerami, is that to get good answers to your questions about the Bible, you should go to people who actually at the very LEAST claim to believe the fundamentals of right and wrong. Those are illustrated in the Bible and are common knowledge. If a person doesn't even get those fundamentals right, they're definitely not reliable enoough to be able to rightly interpret ANY part of the Word.
The "fundamentals" are basically that God is Almighty Creator, that Jesus is His Son who died for the sins of the world; that Jesus rose again; that there is one God in three manifestations---Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; that the Bible is the true, Divinely-inspired word of God; that anybody who chooses to believe and accept Christ as Savior will be saved and therefore have the hope of eternal Life in Heaven with Him.
What I've seen for a few years now is that a bunch of people, some even supposed-Believers, are so twisting the Bible's words that they've re-defined the basic concepts of RIGHT and WRONG which God Almighty set in place (and in literal stone at first---The Ten Commandments tables). They're watering down His word so much that righteous Christian judgement of wrongs are being called wrong itself; tolerance for immorality and atheism has taken the place of our basic human laws, and those who claim to want to hear the Truth are simply desirous of confusing Bible-believing Christians.
For example, Jerami, in your post above you've shown that you're afraid to stand against homosexuality (the stance of which can be considered "fundamental" because it's a common well-known account in the Bible of God's judgement upon Sodom; and let's not forget that He made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve; and yes that may be an old "cliche", but it's very true), and why are you afraid or at least hesitant? You said you're not gonna "apply for a hunting license for hunting homosexuals or any other sinners".......
Sorry, but a Christian who sees what's happening in our society these days wouldn't phrase it like that. You have fallen prey to the pressure of the liberal agenda, looks like. You want so badly to be liked by everyone, or as many people as possible, that you give up your in-born sense of right and wrong. Matter of fact, if the liberals get their way, you won't have to "hunt" for any blasphemous sinners to bring to Christ, because they'll OWN the churches, and then they won't really be churches anymore, will they? They'll be like the churches that someone around here described where a man in a dress was allowed in the pulpit openly.
There is a "hunting license" for sinners like you? Is that what you think? Very confusing....
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
And on that note, I'm gonna have to go to sleep. It's wonderful to get to fellowship like this!
Hope to see you later; and tomorrow I'll try to read some more hubs of yours.
God bless you and your wife even more immensely and intensely!
Amen. - Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
I know what you mean.
My father (and I keep referring to my father, but I can't think of a more Spiritual man!) didn't have much of an education either, but he had holy fire in his eyes and a voice of both compassion and thunder when he preached the Gospel. - Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- SirDentposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Ah, but Sir Dent!
Do you now give up when the well starts bearing fruit?
The Lord is in control of it all.
Psalm 107: 33-37:
"He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein."
((AND (there is always an "AND" with the Lord!))
"He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase."
The water of Life may be more shallow elsewhere, but it runs here too, even if we gotta dig a lot deeper to find it!
But hey, it's up to you. I'm buyin' equipment for well-diggin' other places too! No reason we can't drill baby drill wherever we want; there are no oil spills when we dig into that River of Life!
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