Posted on 04/07/2007 8:46:55 PM PDT by migraines
This should attract a lot of converts.
The fact is Jesus promised believers assurance, joy and personal peace..that these in facts are fruits of the spirit.
"For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a future and a hope"....Jer 29:11
I get the impression that the main benefit some Christians enjoy is condemning others to hell for eternity.
Christians condemn nobody. Only God can do that.
And either Jesus told the truth that salvation only comes through Him, or He was a liar.
Only God can condemn to Hell, and Bible says He takes no pleasure in it.
I accept Him. Now, if I can just get Him to forgive me.....believe in your head, believe in your heart...hmmmm
> I get the impression that the main benefit some
> Christians enjoy is condemning others to hell for
> eternity.
It’s an old habit:
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
It’s really not about condemnation—rather, the essence of Christianity is to give HOPE for humanity.
It gets better than that, though. When Christ went to the cross, He took on our sins. But before that, when He went to the whipping post, He took on our sicknesses and diseases, so that we can have divine healing for our bodies.
Dood! Rant on.
28 posts and no one’s made fun of your screen name. Now that’s an Easter miracle.
Yes but Jesus came here to do the WILL of HIS Father in Heaven!
John 14
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you
John 5
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 6: 38-39
38 For I came down from heaven, NOT to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
What?
You said that so well. Thanks.
Whoever suggested anything different?
Christ is risen indeed!
Happy Easter.
Whoever suggested anything different?
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Many believe that Jesus is and the Father are the same being!
But it is so clear in-
John 14
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
'Many are called but few are chosen' ... 'Faithful is He that calleth you for He will also do it'
Of the many called, why are so few chosen?... Because so few will let Him do it.
As dark as things may seem, Christ will always be born in us all
The Lord Jesus Christ has risen,What a wonderful day my sins are forgiven.
http://etext.virginia.edu/rsv.browse.html
Just hearing from others is incredibly-reinforcing.
End Times or not, we’re all bathed in Christ’s blood.
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